Why not apply for a crop permit?

Landowner has to agree to the crop permit. A lot of landowners won’t do that for various reasons. If you shoot then in the summer the deer must be left in the field and the meat is wasted.

257,,,, I got the same problem . If I have a garden I have to run electric fence around ever thing

Yet folks won't let people hunt either. John, if you need some help thinning the doe population in some places let me know. Our population on this end of the,mountain is low already and we don't kill does.

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Not going to happen. I agree with you 100% Daniel.

I also follow TNdeer as well as a couple of other hunting sites. There is a fellow on TNdeer that has already killed 19 deer this year. I enjoy hunting as much as anyone, but 19 deer in one season??????????????

I wouldn't drag a doe out of the woods for it, but that is just me. I grew up hunting in the 60's here in Colbert and if you saw a deer you were very fortunate. There just wasn't any here to hunt. There were no doe seasons then and our numbers grew! If you shot a doe deer once doe days began, you were talked about negatively for years. EHD, cars, and most of all coyotes have taken a huge toll on our deer numbers statewide. I am so glad we had weather this year that put a huge damper on deer hunting during doe season here in Colbert. The lands I own cant handle doe harvests here.

I don’t like “doe days”. I think you should be able to kill one whenever. However there should be a limit on how many you kill

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I think for here I ain't gone say we have to many doe days but we don't shoot but one or 2 off our place every year and they off limits after Christmas.
Just cause we have doe days all season long don't mean you gotta shoot them

Yes and No. I don't like the idea of basically an unlimited doe harvest but on public land, all I see are does since
the season for them is only 2 weeks.

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Yes and yes on too many idiot hunters. For those of you who claim to have too many how about inviting some kids to come help with your problem.

You can see where everyone hunts by there reaction. We haven’t killed but 1 doe in 4 or 5 years at the house feed plant timber management everything. We don’t see deer much in our fields because half the neighbors around us blast them. We started building our numbers 5 years ago then new neighbors started moving in shooting them now our doe numbers are probably lower then they were before they rebuilt. Last summer I drove from Catherine home one night late. From Catherine to Selma I probably saw 30-40 deer. From Selma home I may have seen 7-8 and it’s further between these two. Some ares of the state could definitely use a bunch of doe days others few if any.

No, no way. I’d rather see them limit harvest than days. Who knows what day I’ll want to shoot a doe? I’m fine the way it is, but would certainly not want to limit my opportunity to shoot one when I want to.

You cant blanket statement the whole state on this topic. I know of places you can see 40+ a day. Other places you could go and hunt 2 or 3 full weekends and not see but one or two.

Unfortunately, most are not though. It amazes me how many hunters think that there's a deer behind every bush.

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