I have personally logged in 3 of the deer in Lamar co and I'm one man.
There have been some studs already killed in Lamar this year. I have pics of several good ones that have been killed but I don't have permission to put them on here. One is 170-180". I'd say 15-20% max reported.
I just wish we'd had a little of this disdain with the buck limits.....
I felt much worse about it than this game check. Reason was though, Buck limits was socialism, game check affects everyone. I'm kinda glad, misery loves company.
Buck limits were NOT socialism, because bucks are already STATE property. They literally are as much MINE as they are YOURS. Now understand I'm not arguing with you, it actually hacks me off too in a way....if I OWN property, then frankly I consider those bucks to me MINE! LOL
And I think this is what aggravates me the most about our public lands... Suppose I go to Barbour WMA, I usually make one trip there each season, and as is typical the majority of the deer brought to the check station are young bucks. Again, that resource was as much MINE as it was that guy's. So whereby he was LEGAL to kill it, his indiscriminate killing of that young buck removed it from the herd for next season when I go back. And I'm like, dude, I saw 20 does this morning!!!!!....you couldn't have shot a doe?????? You're just gonna saw those horns off and throw em in the shed. Now I have freedom to say this because I've been that guy!!!! I've got who knows how many sawed off racks, and little skull mounts, that AT THE TIME I was tickled to kill. They were legal, and I had a ball those days on those hunts! But now with maturity and wisdom, I regret killing so many of those deer for nothing other than my selfish pleasure. I wasted them! It's not wrong to teach our children and new hunters this concept, but I guess we're worried that this new video game generation will lose interest in hunting.