Where B&C Bucks are Coming from Now

I have never seen the 35 percent of the deer harvest outlined as the unchecked and untagged !! LOL Got any link to that LIL

My counties are a 4 bonus 3 and 2. I see tons of deer every year and kill plenty . You will never here me say I did not see any deer or complain about the lack of them . I do think that a few places could use more some are just right and many many are way over populated.

Me either.......

CO's are spread way too thin for thr area they have to cover, makes it easy for the lazy guy's. Don't mean to get off track.

Personally I find 35% that don't check or buy licenses quite extreme unless the LTL people are included in the non purchaser percentage. As for rabbit rangers there does need to be more especially good ones. The bad ones need to get jobs as Pinkerton guards. Buster sounds like a good one. Knew a couple of good ones; One has passed on and I lost track of the other. Probably retired.

More deer means more big bucks. We simply have more deer.

And your anti OBR?

Nice one, I was just proving what I said some post's back that alot of people say one thing in June and another when season rolls around. You can shoot me an e-mail and my son, daughter and I will take some of those deer you don't want off of your hands! ;D I hunt very hard and kill my fair share with a bow, my son gets his fair share with gun and bow. We butcher and eat nothing but deer meat until we run out, usually sometime in late summer. I think your argument is based more off of a management standpoint where you see a buck you want to take out of the breeding pool but don't want to burn a tag. We took 8 deer between us last season and hunted HARD to get them. 3 weeks of vacation and 7 of those 8 before firearms season came in.

Only seeing 2 antlered deer in the last 3-4 years would be a good argument to be pro OBR. Wow thats not many, I thought I had it rough.

Honestly InHicks land or the neighboring land hunters may be a problem for him and we do not know the whole story as to why he only saw 3 bucks and where he hunts .

I have seen other guys in this type of situation and honestly most of the time they or the land they hunt just need some tweeking to get to where they see bucks and deer all the time .

Usualy its a combination of things that can be easily fixed .

I understand the tough times thing as I hunted the 1970s and the early 1980s when there were very few deer in the central part of the state .I mean my county took less than 100 deer for the first 10 or so years I hunted. We had plenty of hunters believe me just not many deer . That said I can say with certainty now that heaving and getting big bucks here in Indiana is all about the numbers game .

Thus the more deer the more trophies that means does too. You need lots and lots of does that produce lots of buck fawns every year for yearly recruitment.

So I found that when times were tuff on the land I was hunting it was time to go find new hunting land for a few or several years even in other counties as far as 75 miles away and boy did it pay off big when I started hunting the new land for that year .And in a few years my land back home had had enough time off that it was smoking hot it took just 4 years of staying away from hunting it before it was harboring some real giants and lots of doe.

So my advice to all of you that listen just a little too me is if your land is poor on deer production and deer numbers , is to get out right now find a new piece or two of property right now in the summer when you can openly see all the deer that is around . All you have to do is stop and ask until someone gives you permission it does work even now a days .

But by all means leave the land you have been hunting alone completely for a few years like as in 3 or 4 and then get back in there and do some deer hunting it works .But you must have Patience and stay with asking and stay out of the woods at home .