DNR Releases 2014-15 Deer Season Results
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iH8DemLibz
When All Else Fails.
A lot of negatives in there.
Less hunters or less deer is the question.
Less hunters or less deer is the question.
j_h_smith
Ultimate Member
- Jul 28, 2007
- 28,516
I'm going with less deer. That's less deer for the hunter during hunting season. There are a lot of crop damage, deer permits and I don't believe there numbers are included in these figures. I've got a friend who hunts almost exclusively using crop damage permits from the landowners. He only bow hunts, so he can get in and out without anyone knowing. I'm almost positive, he said he doesn't have to record his kills.
Jim Smith
Jim Smith
BigSteve57
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- Feb 14, 2011
- 3,245
Indeed. It's not due to the bag limits being too low.
madmantrapper
Ultimate Member
I know a guy here in Carroll that killed 65 deer last year crop damage. I don't know if he is supposed to check them in or not but I would bet they are supposed to be counted some how.
Yeah. Gotta wonder what license sales looked like this year. Time spent afield also. Outside of early season bow hunting, I have a hard time buying the acorn/mast crop theory. Deer that are being pushed tend to move pretty darned well.
danb
dont be a dumbass
I killed as many this year as last year (I usually give some away, can't use it all). I saw more this year than last year, but just not where I could shoot them. The acorn crop was massive and until late Jan, felt like the deer just were not hungry and moving.
The standard explanation is the acorn crop (few acorns = more movement, more interaction), but it's hard to tell. I looked back over the data and +/-10% year over year is not unusual. The late season deer I killed seemed like they had more fat than usual.
'04 Cummins
Defenestrator
I sure saw less deer, I got skunked this year, not one deer in probably 50+ hours in the stand. I only saw the same 40lb. pipsqueaker 3 different times. Not sure where they all went. They were rarely even showing up on the cameras...
Yes, crop damage deer are checked in also.
Skunked as well. Was pumped as got a new bow this year But due to some personal obligations did not get out till later in the season. Heard them early two mornings before sun up but we're ghosts after. Made it out 6 times. Next year going to hit it hard.
Crow Bait
Active Member
FIFY
iH8DemLibz
When All Else Fails.
And you would think they'd end up in someone else's crosshairs when pushed and shot by another hunter.
They simply weren't around this year.
At least not in the Hereford Zone.
danb
dont be a dumbass
Around here, when pushed, they end up in the safety zone and/or someone's back yard.
nope, they are reported. if we don't report enough we loose our permits. they want us to get rid of as many of those cockroaches as possible, as do we farmers.
Mike3888
Mike3888
The deer numbers in Maryland are never accurate anyway. People don't check them in, and others report a 2 doe harvest just to get another buck tag. Big factor that messes the count up is. With Marylands liberal limit, there are a lot of non residents that will kill a deer in their home state and check it in on maryland liscense. Example Pa. With their 1 buck limit.
Gunlawyer
Active Member
I had a kinda slow season too
Only got 3 out of a potential 4 Maryland bucks. Tagged out with 3 bucks by early/mid rut and by the time I could shoot antlered again, the bucks were not moving anymore. Never did get to fill that last buck tag. Some years are like that I guess.
Only got 3 out of a potential 4 Maryland bucks. Tagged out with 3 bucks by early/mid rut and by the time I could shoot antlered again, the bucks were not moving anymore. Never did get to fill that last buck tag. Some years are like that I guess.
I was skunked this year but I didn't hunt too hard either. My buddy took two out of my woods this year... there were plenty of signs and plenty of sightings, just never saw any when it counted.
BigSteve57
Ultimate Member
- Feb 14, 2011
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4 days hunting the antlered vegetable thieves and I came up empty as well. I actually saw more Turkey than deer. Goose...now there I did OK.
j_h_smith
Ultimate Member
- Jul 28, 2007
- 28,516
I got out once before the knee replacement, after that I didn't even sniff the woods.
Jim Smith
Jim Smith
wilcam47
Ultimate Member
Another reason it seems like there are less deer is that they move more at night...If pressured a lot they may have gone primarily nocturnal.
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