Why not shorten or close the season in all of these areas that have such low (or seemingly declining) populations? Seems to be the solution for other game animals.
Closing the doe season or shortening the doe season is two of the options that have been discussed......
I am not talking about doe season, but deer season. Some of the folks on here sound like they don't have huntable populations based on the lack of deer seen, photographed, ...
That's what I love about people.....some love to go to extremes to try and make a point everything from kill them all to just close the whole season lol.
No, it is not to make an extreme point. Look back through the posts in this thread and other others one here where people talk about how they get no deer on camera, see no deer, no evidence of deer eating food plots ..., if the populations are that low in those areas why wouldn't you give them every opportunity to recover or lessen the harvest pressure?
It is done around the state with turkeys, some counties get 46 days, some 30, some even less, and some are not opened at all. The season limit for turkeys in all of those opened counties is the same, 5 gobblers, but hunters just have fewer days in the field to achieve their limit and hens are never allowed to be killed. I just don't understand why you wouldn't treat deer herds the same way if you KNOW (not think) that you have a problem in certain areas?
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