[quote=swampcracker]I think your right. As old Earl use to say WAKE Up America! And Only You can control Trigger Finger itch. You Want to help the deer number join a group. Donate some time to improve the land For God's sake feed Some on your property. When did it become a sin to help the herd in hard time. Shoot some coyote trap some. Bug the Gamewarden when you SEE them old boys kill em off the road in September. I meen he'll every one has kill lights with corn piles under them shots all night from September to March around here. Nothing is done about it Cus our man in green is running his ass off and y'all want to give him one more thing to check on the honest guys. That's about like new gun laws. A Joke.
Tags would actually help the game warden. When he peeks into the bed of a truck he doesnt have to ask any questions or try to determine if the deer was taken illegally. If its got a tag on its ear or antler he is done and on his way.
And I don't know how many times you've been stopped by a gamewarden but if you got a buck he wants to see your sheet your license all right then. We have a system that tells that. I would like to know how long some of y'all have hunted. To think that southern deer hunting is easy and you should be able to just walk outside and see deer. Some of y'all won't be happy till it's Just like Europe where only the supper rich hunt. And the state control's every part of it. We can call it Caliabama.
Take your tinfoil hat off. Nobody here is trying to take away your hunting rights or even infringe on them. No one is trying to raise the cost of your license either. Not even trying to make it where deer hunting is easy. Its not a sport to me. Its a way of life and a way to provide extra food. Unfortunately some regulations have to be made to keep some idiots from killing every deer in the state and wiping out the deer for future generations of hunters. Take a lesson from what happened to the american bison. Almost got completely wiped out. Could have been prevented with common sense measures.
The current papers we have now dont work. People just print out 100 of them at the beginning of the season and just throw it away when once they get the deer home. Doesnt work. Tags will cut that out. Thats it.
The only people it will burden will be people who want to break the law.
Trust me i dont want a ton of government interference in my everyday life either. A tag system will not have anymore interference than we have now, unless you are trying to kill over your limit.
first off I remember hunting all year to see a deer. Deer hunting is better now than ever sure we have ups and downs. Let me tell you what this will do. First off you'll get tags it Will be probably 2-Bucks 3-does with the bucks having 4 point on one side. Then your going to see land lease prices jump up in Alabama again (after all we a trophy state now) Then your WMAs are going to go to quota hunts like all of Florida's good ones did. I've seen How this works when I leased my Georiga club 12,500 acres it was for 1$ per acre. Went to 8$ I let it go. No that land 20$ per acre Because some jackleg thinks it's Dooley Co it's got to be worth it. I own my own land. But you guys keep it up and see if y'all can afford to hunt. Once they make Rules they don't like to change them back. I'd like to know how much you guys that want change hunt predators how often do y'all police your land how much feed and seed do you put out to maintain the deer on your land you hunt? Because there is more to Deer management than tags. And I don't need some 25 yr old kid in a office telling me what I need around my place I hunt and live.[/quote]
I trap all summer matter of fact I'll have them out tomorrow.
I spend on average 2-3 days a week on my 7400 acres.
We have a 5 doe per membership limit and try to shoot mature bucks only.
I say try because we have numerous youngsters and few inexperienced hunters.
When I first started hunting it was nothing to see 20-30 deer in a hunt, now 4-8 deer a hunt is about average.
Now I can go out and just climb in a shooting house on a greenfield and not see a single deer. To me that's not hunting that's just trying to get lucky.
In the rut with the use of cameras it's easy to key in on a buck that is visiting a field on a schedule.
Hell my 10 year old shot 3 bucks this year, 2 of them I let walk and they were both mature deer. 1 was 4.5 yo the other 5.5
