Mid-Atlantic Whitetail Solutions

Mid-Atlantic Whitetail Solutions, LLC (MAWS) solves the real problems that come with overabundant whitetail populations: crop destruction, tick-borne disease vectors, vehicle collisions, and degraded ecosystems. They're not a hunting club. They're a professional management company built on controlled, data-driven herd reduction.

Most deer control options fail because they're either too expensive (sharpshooting), ineffective (relocation—most relocated deer die within a year), or uncontrollable (opening land to public hunting). MAWS uses managed hunting with their own trained hunters, operating under strict property-specific guidelines instead of basic hunting regulations.

Their approach: 95% doe harvests annually, hunter management that matters, and collection of data you can actually use to track success.

• •1. Initial Meeting — Walk through your goals, current hunting success, and what you're dealing with.

• •2. Property Evaluation — MAWS scouts your land to identify bedding areas, travel corridors, ideal stand locations, crop damage zones, and neighboring influences that affect deer movement.

• •3. Custom Management Plan — Every property gets a tailored strategy including:
• •Herd density estimates and carrying capacity analysis
• •Sex ratio and fawn recruitment data
• •Habitat recommendations (food plots, forest management, invasive removal)
• •Hunter management protocols and safety boundaries
• •Multi-year goals and expected outcomes

• •4. Execution — MAWS hunters implement the plan using trail cameras, scouting logs, and field observations to track progress.

• •5. Data Collection & Annual Reporting — Harvest data (weight, age from jawbone, scoring, lactation rates, fetus analysis) gets compiled into year-end reports showing crop damage prevented, program impact, and recommendations.

Every MAWS hunter: - Passes comprehensive background checks - Has zero hunting violations on record - Provides professional references - Completes in-house training and ethics agreements - Passes annual shooter qualifications for each weapon used - Carries $100% insurance

This isn't a revolving door of inexperienced hunters. This is controlled management.

• •Strategic Hunting Services — For landowners who want to hunt better but need expert direction. Includes stand location analysis, wind card strategy, trail camera placement, field judging education, and hunting pressure guidance.

• •Deer Management Services — For serious herd improvement. Trail camera surveys to inventory your actual deer population, sex ratio analysis, density estimates, biological vs. cultural carrying capacity assessment, and development of removal targets to achieve your goals.

• •Habitat Management Services — For long-term property development. Food plot strategy, native forage identification, invasive species control planning, sanctuary design, and macro-level property planning accounting for neighboring influences.

• •vs. Public Hunting: Heavy traffic pushes deer nocturnal and destroys hunt success. Inexperienced hunters create safety risks and chaos.

• •vs. Hunting Leases: Lease hunters want more deer and pass mature does to chase bucks—exactly the opposite of what your overpopulation needs. You might make short-term lease money, but you're setting up years of property damage.

• •vs. Sharpshooting: Extremely expensive. Not specialized for long-term herd health.

• •vs. Relocation: Prohibitively costly, high pathogen transmission risk, and relocated deer rarely survive their first year.

• •Tick-borne disease vectors — Overpopulated deer amplify Lyme disease and other tick infections across communities
• •Crop and landscape destruction — Starving herds strip farms and home gardens
• •Deer-vehicle collisions — Suburban and rural accidents that kill people and deer
• •Forest regeneration failure — High deer densities prevent plant diversity and forest recovery
• •Ecosystem imbalance — Overabundant deer disrupt everything from plant communities to predator populations

1300 York Rd Suite 250B Lutherville, MD 21093 (717) 659-0777 [email protected]

Operating across the Mid-Atlantic region serving private landowners, farms, HOAs, government agencies, and community associations.