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Post by whitetaildave24 on Dec 7, 2018 13:36:38 GMT -5
I don’t normally spend a lot of money on deer hunting. Maybe a new piece of clothing here or there but that’s it. I don’t know a total. Killed two at the park and three on two different private pieces. License was $65 for the bundle. I bought two boxes of ammo and a pack of broad heads this year. Other than that not much cost. My drive is not farther than 30 minutes each way, so not much gas either. Guns and bow are all older. Bow is pushing ten years old. I don’t feed, supplement, food plot, or any of that stuff either. Have one trail cam that is a few years old too. I also process all my own deer. I’m very picky about getting it all really trimmed to just meat, so my outcome is less than a processor would give me I’m sure. Don’t know a weight total, but I have a freezer full of meat that’ll last us a year or so.
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 8, 2018 6:47:04 GMT -5
Current reported deer harvest: 96,215 From Sept 15, 2018 to Saturday, December 8, 2018 Deer harvest numbers are updated as deer are checked in via CheckIN Game. All numbers are raw data that have not been verified by the Indiana DNR. www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/8367.htm
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Post by dbd870 on Dec 8, 2018 18:58:32 GMT -5
I really thought the opening weekend weather caused the drop last year and we would be back up around 120K; looking like I was wrong
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Post by boonechaser on Dec 8, 2018 19:18:28 GMT -5
Over 97,000 catching up alittle on last year. Same number hunting days 98,200 last yr. Good forecast for tomorrow as well.
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 8, 2018 21:02:10 GMT -5
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 9, 2018 7:43:24 GMT -5
Current reported deer harvest: 97,259 From Sept 15, 2018 to Sunday, December 9, 2018 at 6:43 AM CST Deer harvest numbers are updated as deer are checked in via CheckIN Game. All numbers are raw www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/8367.htm
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 9, 2018 8:41:30 GMT -5
LAST YEAR ON THE OPENING WEEKEND SUNDAY MORNING THE COUNT WAS...
99,287
From Sept 15, 2017 to Sunday, December 10, 2017 at 6:05 am CST
SO WE ARE STILL ABOUT 2,000 BEHIND LAST YEAR. OF COURSE LAST YEAR THERE WAS ONE MORE DAY OF ARCHERY INCLUDED.
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 10, 2018 7:12:43 GMT -5
Current reported deer harvest: 98,395 From Sept 15, 2018 to Monday, December 10, 2018 at 6:13 am CST Deer harvest numbers are updated as deer are checked in via CheckIN Game. All numbers are raw data that have not been verified by the Indiana DNR. www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/8367.htm
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Post by welder on Dec 10, 2018 9:49:34 GMT -5
IMO, 120,000 isn't even a remote possibility this season.
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Post by jjas on Dec 10, 2018 10:06:58 GMT -5
IMO, 120,000 isn't even a remote possibility this season. I thought 120,000 was doable, but then the opener of firearms came in 10,000 below the averages from 2009/2016. I think 110,000 is still possible, but I wouldn't even bet on that. Even though I've seen plenty of deer this year, I don't know if herd numbers are lower overall, if hunter numbers are lower, if hunters are being more selective, if it's a combination of all three or something else. All I know is that I've yet to hear a solid reason why the opener of firearms (which is the number 1 harvest day of the entire season) was down so much. Perhaps the after season report will show what happened.
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 10, 2018 10:36:32 GMT -5
Opening weekend of the 2017 MZ season kill was 2,260
Opening weekend of the 2018 MZ season kill was 2,180
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2018 14:15:54 GMT -5
9.6% less. Similar to opening gun. If stays that way we won't hit 110,000. Close to 105,000 - 107,000
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Post by rjb on Dec 10, 2018 14:16:22 GMT -5
Here’s my 2 cents on the firearms opener being down. Typically the seeking phase is most prevalent from Nov. 4-12 around me. Then peak breeding is occurring from 13/14-20th and then movement opens back up again. The 17th/18th is right in the “lockdown”, whereas the last two years gun season opened at the end of peak seeking. It seems I have seen more post than ever this year of “I tagged out earlier than I ever have.” I believe this is a combo of many trying to capture the end of that seeking phase with cross-bows that would otherwise only hunted gun in the past. In turn in localized areas like mine, the pressure timeline on the deer has moved earlier in the season. I personally don’t even go out opening weekend anymore. Circle back around to youth hunting. I tried to get my son interested this year, but we see so little action during gun, it’s almost impossible. Guess I’ll have to get him a cross-gun next year. Lol
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Post by swilk on Dec 10, 2018 15:34:39 GMT -5
2006 firearms season opened on November 18. Over those two days we killed 35619 deer.
2007 firearms season opened on November 17. Over those two days we killed 39221 deer.
2012 firearms season opened on November 17. Over those two days we killed 37175 deer.
And then we come to the 2017 season which opened on November 18. Over those two days we killed 20035 deer.
Im pretty sure breeding has been roughly the same every year ....
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Post by rjb on Dec 10, 2018 17:05:13 GMT -5
Thank for the harvest info. I think maybe I didn’t make clear what I was trying to say. The total number really doesn’t show the whole picture as much as the buck to doe ratio taken. So we’ll have to see when it’s finalized. I was trying to say that maybe since x-bows are allowed, hunters that maybe only hunted gun in the past are harvesting early in the main seeking phase, then taking a week off so they don’t have to deal with the orange army. Later filling doe tags as they don’t feel the pressure to fill their freezer in 3 weekends. Certainly you can fill the freezer the 16-20, but I would think your chances for a mature buck while not impossible, would be lessened. Only way we would ever know is ito compare buck to doe kills at each season.
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Post by boonechaser on Dec 10, 2018 18:17:07 GMT -5
So why is harvesting less deer a bad thing? Less bonus antlerless tags. Several counties out of late antlerless season. Many hunters harvesting less antlerless. I see it all as a positive's myself.
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Post by greghopper on Dec 10, 2018 19:01:36 GMT -5
So why is harvesting less deer a bad thing? Less bonus antlerless tags. Several counties out of late antlerless season. Many hunters harvesting less antlerless. I see it all as a positive's myself. I agree with everything you have said....but where has anyone said or insinuated that it's a bad thing to kill less Deer? You lost me with that part for sure....
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Post by jdebose on Dec 10, 2018 19:32:13 GMT -5
Not speaking for Boone here, but what I think what he was getting at is that maybe the drop in kills it what was intended. Drop in doe tags and less late season opportunities. Could be wrong though.
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Post by boonechaser on Dec 10, 2018 19:43:05 GMT -5
So why is harvesting less deer a bad thing? Less bonus antlerless tags. Several counties out of late antlerless season. Many hunters harvesting less antlerless. I see it all as a positive's myself. I agree with everything you have said....but where has anyone said or insinuated that it's a bad thing to kill less Deer? You lost me with that part for sure.... Just seems some think it's a bad thing?? I really see it as a good thing is all.
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Post by rjb on Dec 10, 2018 19:44:59 GMT -5
I didn’t mean to imply it’s a bad thing at all. I was just trying to come up with an answer to jjas’s question as to why it was down the opening of firearms. I haven’t seen any less deer than I usually do. But I enjoy early and late the best and I’m not necessarily trying to fill a freezer. As always, your hunting experience will depend on your neighbors no matter what the regs are. As an anecdotal observation, I have just seen a different dynamic in the seasons and the way the deer react to pressure earlier as more people are out earlier. We will just adjust our hunting as needed. Not complaining.
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