Lol "Management" deer. That would be on my wall any time any place.First Day of a 3 day hunt in TX for management deer. 9 point
This is my biggest buck to date. 104 yards with Ruger 308. Hit exactly where I was aiming. Nonetheless, it only went 40 yards before it dropped.
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Congrats nice buck! I only take bucks and let all does go.
Where did you shoot it and with what? I see blood on the back leg.
Or, you can help manage the deer herd by culling does as requested by DNR and as commonly recognized by wildlife biologists and deer herd managers all over. Must be nice to hunt somewhere where 99.9% of the deer you see aren’t does or spikes.
Or, you can help manage the deer herd by culling does as requested by DNR and as commonly recognized by wildlife biologists and deer herd managers all over. Must be nice to hunt somewhere where 99.9% of the deer you see aren’t does or spikes.
Plenty of doe culling hunters around. Dead does with fawns next to em, or even fawns themselves dead, just not my idea of good sport. To each his own. As far as large bucks are concerned, its called patience.
Since the birth rate is 50/50, not the healthiest to have such unbalanced harvest numbers. I’d imagine that’s partly why DNR pushed the harvest limit to 2 + a bonus from 3 + a bonus two seasons ago. Try to balance the harvest ratio better.
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It makes no difference to me what someone shoots. I had a bad experience shooting a doe one time and I now will not do it. Deer are now to the point of being like rats. The roads are full of dead ones. The farmers are loosing hard work to them. If a farmer killed 20 in a night by flashlight and left them lay, 30 years ago I would have said "Lock him up". Today I wouldn't think anything of it.
My club has a $50 "fine" (voluntary) for shooting a spike.
That's part of my point though. A buck means one dead deer. A doe means a dead deer and all her fawns. Killing only bucks makes less of a difference on the size of the herd and it does also (if that is all most are doing) lead to more problems in the herd with imbalances with too few bucks breeding too many does.
You want to properly control them, there does need to be reasonable balance in the ratios taken (doesn't necessarily need to be 1:1, but DNR seems to think the balance isn't right or they wouldn't have tweaked the buck harvest limits).
I guess to a limited degree, it does directly impact me. I've got too many deer on my property as it is, though that is likely more from almost no hunters (other than me and a neighbor) in my large rural neighborhood near a state park. So they strip everything and the only successful garden has an 8+ft fence. On top of that, I have to live with the DNR reduced buck harvest numbers, so it means less opportunities for bucks for me. Which is generally less of a concern because I don't have the opportunity to take 4 bucks in a year, but owning property I can now hunt on, is more likely to rear its head.
I didn't say tar and feather buck only hunters and drive them out of town. Just saying, it does bother me as biologically it isn't great for the herd and at least based on DNR's moves, does affect me at least some. Guys who don't signal lane changes also bugs me, but I also know its gonna happen and I might as well just roll my eyes a little and move on with my life.
PS I am kind of curious what kind of bad experience you had harvesting a doe where you wouldn't do that anymore. Deer's, deer when it comes down to things. Or was a pregnant doe and it bothered you? Not judging that, just curious.
Invite some hunters out to help control your deer problem!!!!!
How are people buck only? One a year? I thought you had to take 2 does before a second buck or are you able to take 3 (arch/muz/firearm) without taking 2 does.
I’m doing population control and meat, cause I’m my neighborhood there is just too many. I think the 2 hunters behind me are not hunting this year cause I have not seen them and they get most of the harvest around me. Land owner had one rule. Take everything you can that gives you meat but leave the foxes to kill the rabbits.
If hunters want to be buck only and follow The regs that is fine. I dont have a problem, but do if they become snobs about it for those contributing to population control in what little time they have to hunt.
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