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Post by cambygsp on Nov 28, 2007 19:38:08 GMT -5
What do you folks think? Isn't this year 5 or 6 of the OBR? Shouldnt we have an influx of huge 4,5 or 6 year old buck deer killed this year?
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Post by deerman on Nov 28, 2007 19:55:47 GMT -5
I have seen alot more bucks , but not as many big ones. I think the mature deer in my area got hit hard by the EHD. At least that is what I going to blame it on.
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Post by duff on Nov 28, 2007 19:59:59 GMT -5
No change from where I have been hunting. Big ones are still rare, little ones are more plentiful. Nothing will change that. I have been passing small ones all season in hopes that I get a nice buck. Haven't seen one yet!
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Post by greghopper on Nov 28, 2007 20:03:45 GMT -5
The BEST thing to happen since slice bread...
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Post by Old Ironsights on Nov 28, 2007 20:05:18 GMT -5
OBR - don't care, don't care. I shoot does.
Killing Bucks does almost nothing to control deer overpopulation.
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Nov 28, 2007 20:40:34 GMT -5
OH NO another OBR thread
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Post by parkerbow on Nov 28, 2007 21:18:44 GMT -5
I do not think the OBR is helping squat for my area, I have put in 423 hours on stand in the last 2 years and have seen one 3 1/2 year old buck. Too much hunting pressure and everyone around here shoots anything with bone on its head as well as buttons, If you don't let them go they can't grow. Now then anyone who has ever shot a big deer would not have gotten that deer if someone years before that would not have passed him up, trust me. Think about it.
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Post by trophyhunter1 on Nov 28, 2007 21:23:37 GMT -5
i like the OBR!!!
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Post by budfields on Nov 28, 2007 21:43:32 GMT -5
Well...
The last time I made a comment concerning the OBR, I found out just how many friends I had here..(and at another forum.) I was even accused of using my weekly outdoor column to corrupt other hunter's opinion about the OBR. UNTRUE!!!
PERSONALLY... in the area that I hunt and the group of individuals I hunt with, have NOT noticed ANY increase in numbers or size of bucks being seen. That is NOT meant to imply it is NOT working for other hunters in other areas.
In conversations with MANY other hunters around the area, they are also NOT seeing anything to support the claims of the OBR being the "GREATEST THING TO HAPPEN TO DEER HUNTING.."
Not being a self-proclaimed TROPHY HUNTER, I still hunt for putting venison in the freezer. IF a nice buck comes by.. that is also GREAT but it is NOT the reason I have made trips to and from the woods for 44 years.
GOOD HUNTING... Bud Fields
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Post by steiny on Nov 28, 2007 22:09:04 GMT -5
We're whackin & stackin the big uns around here.
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Post by hoosierhuntinful on Nov 28, 2007 22:15:47 GMT -5
alot of buds knocked down 3.5 y/o bucks this year......but the vast majority of my buds quit shooting immature bucks 10 years ago.......on my friends 117 acres in switzerland county ALL surrounding landowners quit shooting immature bucks at least 10 years ago after getting into QDM[the reason i personally think is responsible for the mature bucks].On my cousins 84 acres in Jefferson county i seen 4 bucks that were at least 3.5 y/o.weird thing is i hadnt seen a shooter buck on this land since 2003.
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Post by yaz on Nov 28, 2007 22:23:55 GMT -5
Bud is correct in saying that it can work. It can work for people who have huge tracts of ground where the deer stay on. Or, where your neighbors in the surrounding areas practice letting the small ones go also. Or, where there are higher numbers of deer where the incidental buck can manage to escape for three of four years.
In my situation, I'm the only one letting the younger guys go. The Amish families that hunt on three sides of my 300 acres don't care....they shoot. Any deer that makes it to 3.5 or 4.5 is either very lucky, or very smart. It is not because somebody, other than me, has passed on him.
I don't care one way or another, because I do not need more than one buck. If I want meat, I'll go south and find a doe. BTW- I will not shoot a doe in Rush county, or my farm. The deer population has been, and still is very low. So, I have not given myself many options for taking a deer!
Yaz
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Post by Redemption on Nov 28, 2007 22:26:59 GMT -5
My friends and I all hunt mature deer only. The OBR has not improved the numbers we see at all. Button bucks are still being killed en mass and until this is stopped, there will be no positives. Antlerless tags are up because the hunters that tag out in archery are not shooting does in gun season because there is no desire to go out. The OBR serves only the elite few who desire an Illinois/Ohio outfitter type situation in Indiana. It ran its course now it is time to go. OBR: The first antihunting measure fully supported by IN "elite" hunters.
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Post by cambygsp on Nov 29, 2007 4:16:20 GMT -5
I have hunted every weekend and then some since October 01......I have to say the OBR has had no affect on me this year because I have only seen one buck deer while I was deer hunting.....it was a big body spike the last weekend of October.
I'll confess I did take a poke at him but it was a clean miss as my arrow connected with some small brush before reaching the deer. That is the only antlered deer I have seen this year and I have probabally seen more total deer this year than any other.
We have seen a few buck deer while shining Salt Creek Rd from Gatesville to SR 46 in the evenings after the hunt, but I bet we have only seen maybe 5 or 6 all deer season. Sometimes we would count 60+ deer in that 5 mile spann.
Bottom line is I have not seen any difference in the number of buck deer in the area I have hunted for about 20 years, I think we have more deer now than we have had for many years but the bucks are still few and far between.
No Change For My Area!
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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 29, 2007 4:18:14 GMT -5
I'm going hunting... You all play nice now, you here..
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Post by dbd870 on Nov 29, 2007 5:29:43 GMT -5
Haven't noticed much difference. This year I saw fewer bucks than ever before; but that's just an anomily - I hope. I've stated my position enough times I don't feel like rehashing it again.
PS: Good lucky Woody!
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Nov 29, 2007 7:47:21 GMT -5
No change in buck sightings.
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Post by Harley on Nov 29, 2007 7:53:48 GMT -5
I have seen bigger bucks in the last three years on my land than ever before. I'm all for the OBR
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Post by drs on Nov 29, 2007 8:26:38 GMT -5
I saw fewer Bucks this season, however I was hunting on only 5-8 acres behind my home. I saw a grand total of 7 Deer so far this season, besides the two that I got the second day.
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Post by oneshot on Nov 29, 2007 9:00:12 GMT -5
Here we go again.
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