Because for 50 years Kelly and crew did not allow any doe deer to be harvested period. None. Next question?
Doesn’t that seem a whole lot simpler than the chit show we’ve got now? Hell, it didn’t even take you but one sentence.
I’d be willing to bet that a majority of hunters would support going back to what we used to have with more conservative doe days if we could forget about this GC mess and trying to force it on people who obviously don’t want it.
I would very much like that. We haven't shot does in years. Very few bucks also. But what's right for me may not be right for everyone else.
And that is where the DMAP program comes into play. Specific property prescribed. Tags issued, all pertinent data collected (jawbones, weights, lactation, etc) , all unused tags returned at the end of the season. State gets good data, property owners/managers get to do what is needed to manage their property on a specific basis. Every Tom, Dick and Harry, not allowed to just blast every single doe they see for over 120 days. I'd love to go back to just a couple doe weekends and then if you needed to kill more does for sound biological management reasons, you have the DMAP. You'll never convince me that the wide open, season long doe slaughter was not specifically approved in an effort to entice out of state hunters and bring those $$$$ in to boost those local economies and increase local lease prices for the landowners.
