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  • engineerbrian

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    Sep 3, 2010
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    Fredneck
    The numbers are in, and it looks like we harvested 86,542 deer this year.

    I'm glad to have done my part to help Frederick County be #1 in the harvest :cool:

    Frederick County led the harvest totals again this year with 7,354 deer, followed by Carroll County with 5,896 and Baltimore County at 5,559. Garrett and Montgomery counties rounded out the top five with 5,349 and 4,783 deer, respectively

    http://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2018/02/15/maryland-hunters-harvest-86542-deer-in-2017-2018-season/
     

    iH8DemLibz

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    Apr 1, 2013
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    How many were harvested by responsible 18, 19, and 20 year olds who embraced their Second Amendment rights and bought their hunting firearms themselves?
     

    danb

    dont be a dumbass
    Feb 24, 2013
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    google is your friend, I am not.
    My personal numbers were actually down from last year, but Howard County overall was up 1.1%.

    I have heard DNR wants to lower the bag limits for does for next year. Kinda silly. yeah, we love accidents. Better to kill deer that way.
     

    Jerry M

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    Jun 13, 2007
    1,688
    Glen Burnie MD
    Howard County park rangers were at the AGC several times this year (when I was there) sighting in their suppressed .308 Win bolt rifles. I talked to three of then, different times and determined they were in the neighborhoods shooting deer. The main reason was auto accidents. The county commissioners need to petition the Legislature to reduce the safety area to bow hunt, IMHO.

    Good Luck

    Jerry
     

    Racer Doug14

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    I didn't help at all.
     

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    Deersniper

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    Howard County park rangers were at the AGC several times this year (when I was there) sighting in their suppressed .308 Win bolt rifles. I talked to three of then, different times and determined they were in the neighborhoods shooting deer. The main reason was auto accidents. The county commissioners need to petition the Legislature to reduce the safety area to bow hunt, IMHO.

    Good Luck

    Jerry

    Need to let landowners and farmers shoot the long legged Lyme disease rats whenever and however they want.

    But you can't shoot the Kings deer or rabid raccoons or anything.
     

    Qbeam

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    Did it make a dent in the current population, or do we need more hunters to control the population?

    Q
     

    Deersniper

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    Did it make a dent in the current population, or do we need more hunters to control the population?

    Q

    Hunters? Or people that drive pickup trucks and 4 wheelers though the fields and woods and wonder why they don't see any deer? Then drive around the field looking into the woods looking for deer. Then blame the farmer with crop damage permits for why they don't see any.
     

    bigdv

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    May 17, 2010
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    I havent harvested a deer in 2 years. I have run out of time and places to hunt. I fear hunting is a dying sport.........
     

    Antarctica

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    I havent harvested a deer in 2 years. I have run out of time and places to hunt. I fear hunting is a dying sport.........

    For having some of the most liberal bag limits I've ever heard of (unlimited antlerless in archery), there is still far too much conspiring against average hunters to make any dent in the MD deer population or inspire new hunters to start.

    Lack of sunday hunting, little public land available for hunting, excessive safety zones, etc... It would be interesting to throw all that into a mathematical model to see how much land and times are available to actually kill deer presuming one works a 40 hour week.

    I usually kill one deer a year in my backyard. After one is down, the others go nocturnal. The lack of land open to hunting means its virtually impossible to 'hunt' in the true sense (i.e., learn and target patterns, still hunt, etc). Most of what I actually do is opportunistically harvest a deer, at best (i.e. bait them in my backyard).

    I don't have access to other private land, and I'm not willing to pay for it. I regularly check logs of some southern maryland public lands and see very little actually harvested in deer season.

    Sunday hunting limitations cut my hunting season in half.

    My final gripe is that the state/dnr owns HUNDREDS of properties (check MD merlin to see this) that are never made available to hunters, a good percentage of which were probably paid for with license fees.

    Unless you own or have access to private ground here, its pretty bleak.

    And waterfowl hunting is even worse...
     

    Racer Doug14

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    For having some of the most liberal bag limits I've ever heard of (unlimited antlerless in archery), there is still far too much conspiring against average hunters to make any dent in the MD deer population or inspire new hunters to start.

    Lack of sunday hunting, little public land available for hunting, excessive safety zones, etc... It would be interesting to throw all that into a mathematical model to see how much land and times are available to actually kill deer presuming one works a 40 hour week.

    I usually kill one deer a year in my backyard. After one is down, the others go nocturnal. The lack of land open to hunting means its virtually impossible to 'hunt' in the true sense (i.e., learn and target patterns, still hunt, etc). Most of what I actually do is opportunistically harvest a deer, at best (i.e. bait them in my backyard).

    I don't have access to other private land, and I'm not willing to pay for it. I regularly check logs of some southern maryland public lands and see very little actually harvested in deer season.

    Sunday hunting limitations cut my hunting season in half.

    My final gripe is that the state/dnr owns HUNDREDS of properties (check MD merlin to see this) that are never made available to hunters, a good percentage of which were probably paid for with license fees.

    Unless you own or have access to private ground here, its pretty bleak.

    And waterfowl hunting is even worse...

    Amen. Esp.waterfowl. Luckily I'm in CC and Sunday hunting is allowed on private property, which I have. But, Maryland has a ton of pressure per acre of public land. Heck, even private land you'll have someone up your a$$. If I had to hunt public, I'd probably not in MD.
     

    Qbeam

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    Apr 16, 2008
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    Hunters? Or people that drive pickup trucks and 4 wheelers though the fields and woods and wonder why they don't see any deer? Then drive around the field looking into the woods looking for deer. Then blame the farmer with crop damage permits for why they don't see any.

    Hunters. The folks that actually work at getting deer.

    Q
     

    Deersniper

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    For having some of the most liberal bag limits I've ever heard of (unl.

    L





    My final gripe is that the state/dnr owns HUNDREDS of properties (check MD merlin to see this) that are never made available to hunters, a good percentage of which were probably paid for with license fees.

    Unless you own or have access to private ground here, its pretty bleak.

    And waterfowl hunting is even worse...


    This x100

    License fees and taxes pay for all these parks and the free loading granola munchers are the only ones that can use them.
     

    Antarctica

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    Be sure to check the DNR web site for public hunting lands:
    http://www.eregulations.com/maryland/hunting/public-hunting-lands/

    The point is that whats actually available to hunt is a small fraction of what is actually owned by DNR. The following image is a screen shot of DNR owned lands. Everything in green in owned by DNR. If you go and dig into the location of each of these properties you'll see that many are not available to hunt, including a large tract in my own backyard (Shady Side) and additional lands along the Patuxent River.
     

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    I got 6. 5 in QA and 1 in Cecil. The EHD wiped out huge numbers in Kent, QA Caroline and Talbot. The next few years might be a tough hunt in those areas hit. Some farmers were reporting upwards to 50 dead in their fields. Hopefully the freeze killed off large numbers of midge larvae...
     

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