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Post by beermaker on Dec 17, 2014 19:36:34 GMT -5
I'm jumping in here without reading every previous post, so I apologize ahead if I am repeating what someone else has already said.
While I don't know what the scientific determination of "overharvesting" is, I think that I have a reasonable idea of responsible harvesting. It baffles me to hear someone say that they are going to shoot the first deer they see because they saw nothing last year. What's the logic behind that? While I do understand that a person who is properly licensed and is hunting legally has the legal right to reach their given bag limit, I don't think anyone will starve from letting a few more does walk. We had crappy years in 2012 and 2013 where my group hunts. We did not kill a single doe last year and, even though we saw plenty, only two this year. This is an ideal area that is a mix of private and public ground. Prior to 2012, we harvested 8-10 per year and could have had many more. I think EHD hit really hard in the area.
I am choosing to stay home and not pursue anymore for the freezer. I am also very anxious for next season.
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Post by shouldernuke on Dec 17, 2014 19:40:25 GMT -5
When I started hunting in 1989, a person had to enter a drawing for an antlerless tag by county. That is probably correct. I believe it was in the mind 90s when the DBR wanted to get the herd down and sold them over the counter by so many per county. Some counties got more than others. BUT - one could buy as many as they wanted.. I recall driving by the Boonville Walmart very early opening morning and there was a big line waiting to get in to buy doe tags. Not sure when the state started the buy as many as you want and can fill them in any and all counties.. 1995 and 1996 was the big change of bonus structure .Most the state had little in bonus tag numbers issued and some bonus tags before 1994 and they were draw then .
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Post by GS1 on Dec 17, 2014 20:41:06 GMT -5
Its the mindset of they are my deer. EXACTLY! I lost permission to turkey hunt a 40,000+ acre ranch in Nebraska due to it being sold. I made the trip out there to hunt another ranch that's just under 1000 acres. Five days of hunting and hanging around town got me just over 12,000 acres more. People have a different perspective of things outside of this part of the country.
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Post by firstwd on Dec 17, 2014 21:42:15 GMT -5
Its the mindset of they are my deer. EXACTLY! I lost permission to turkey hunt a 40,000+ acre ranch in Nebraska due to it being sold. I made the trip out there to hunt another ranch that's just under 1000 acres. Five days of hunting and hanging around town got me just over 12,000 acres more. People have a different perspective of things outside of this part of the country. People have that different mindset over more than just deer. I take care of a farm here in the county for friends. Traditionally it was a high poaching area, pot growers heaven, teenage drinking staple, and free county dump. When my friends bought the place they wanted things to change, but had little time to work on it because of living in another county and farming across way more counties than I can keep up with. That's where I came in. I have received numerous death threats, had gates stolen, been threatened by and had the law called on me by the neighbors because "that's their area and we can't run people off of it". In six years of managing this area I think 2014 will be my first calendar year without a death threat.
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