Shoot-em all
Michigan officials propose new hunting regulations as residents grapple with deer overpopulation.Drones for recovery and anterless season.

Damn.

Last week, I took a side by side ride an hour before dusk at my place in Emmett, MI. In less than 8 square miles, we stopped counting at 300 deer. I spent all of yesterday and today fixing fences around my orchard. They keep crashing the fence. October 1st it's on! I plan on tagging out at 10 does. In the meantime, I'll keep slathering the electric fences with peanut butter.

Sounds like they waited too long.

Maybe they should introduce wolves in the lower part of the state like the did in the U. P. and they can wipe out the deer herd there like they did up there.

That's always the case when you allow wildlife management by emotions or influence (money) instead of true fact based decisions.

That's why wolves are being released out west, NJ doesn't have a bear season (but does have a huge bear problem) and Cali stopped mountain lion hunting. They are trying to do the same with lion hunting in Texas as well.

Send them some Florida hunters.....

A small group of hungry coonasses would have that population of deer turned into sausage and sauce picante in a few weeks.

If only there were someone in Michigan who could help.

Sounds like they need to issue the farmers some better depredation permits........

I was thinking the same thing. I could go up there with 2-3 trucks and trailers loaded with coolers, knives, and deer killers and make a huge dent!

If anyone hears about any farmers up there who want some help, I'll take a load of killers up for a week or two, feed a bunch of folks, and help solve their issue.

Sounds like an awful mess that aldeer might could help with. Not many here complaining about too many deer or any overpopulation.

I found this part interesting:

≥>>Fedewa said there’s a combination license available, which is two tags that can be used on female and/or male deer. And a person can buy an additional 10 female deer tags per year<<<

I guess every dcnr has the same attitude now. No matter how much the resource needs something done, they just can't resist the chance to make more money from it. Would it not be likely that more deer could be removed if they simply let hunters take an additional 10 deer with the current license? Why do they think they have to make money from everything?

Baiting was legal for decades up there and they outlawed it several years back and now fewer hunters and too many deer. Who didn't see that coming?

Just as likely to be propaganda as anything.....I didnt notice anything in the article where it talked about unhappy hunters.

I wonder how much lease prices run in Michigan??

Red to send some of these 20county tag numbers up that way..

You send 1000 AL rifle hunters to Michigan with that many doe tags and they’d be begging AL to take them back 😂

If anyone has friends or family up there and can identify a place for us to hunt, I'll drive and pull my enclosed trailer. I can take 2 passengers and their equipment, cause I'm sure my wife will want to go also.

We would be fine just shooting does.

Anyone wanting to hunt Michigan should just go hunt state land... Better dress warm

What makes you say that wolves wiped them out? The U.P has a harsh winter and never had high densities to my knowledge, I know they didn't in the early 90s

Michigan has a lot more deer hunters than Bama does... Plenty of rednecks too

Yeah except they call em woodticks up there.

Just pointing out a fact... I liked hunting public land there more than Bama. They baited so much ya just had to find buck trails and sit

Because it's the government and they always want money without ever simply doing the right thing.

Michigan has about a 2 week rifle season and maybe a 1-2 week muzzleloader season. That's it.

Hollering something about how they got too many deer is complete BS. This is a money maker and they know it. They need the money to pay their own pack of Dr. Deer morons to tell you all about the "Science" behind everything they are doing. Dr. Fauci style.

They aren't serious about any of it with regulations like these.. This is an example of the other end of the spectrum in hunting regulations. They are over-regulated and have lost hunters.

Alabama on the other hand has no regulations that are meaningful or that really matter unless you get extremely unlucky and get caught.

Example of the opposite ends of the spectrum.

Both riddled with some gaslighting BS that any good Democrat would envy.

They aren't used to a long season and very liberal bag limits. Alabama Hillbillies are trained , professional deer eradicators .

Except they have a long bow season. The rut falls right before gun season during bow season. A lot of good bowhunters up there. A very short but intense rut, I've shot some good bucks on public land up here.

I noticed in WI that it was a 9 day gun season which was during or right after the rut. Bowhunting was easy but come opening day 1 million would hit the woods. So they killed a lot in a short span. Skip forward and I asked Steve a few years ago if he was still hunting and a quick nope. He said between CWD and the wolves there were no deer. He hunts public lands up around the UP. Florence, Forest and another county he liked.

Liberty hunt: Sept. 14 – 15, 2024
Early antlerless firearm: Sept. 21 – 22, 2024 (rifle or bow)
Independence hunt: Oct. 17 – 20, 2024
Archery: Oct. 1 – Nov. 14 and Dec. 1, 2024 – Jan. 1, 2025
Regular firearm: Nov. 15 – 30, 2024
Muzzleloading (Zones 1, 2 and 3): Dec. 6 – 15, 2024
Late antlerless firearm: Dec. 16, 2024 – Jan. 1, 2025
Extended urban archery: Jan. 2 – 31, 2024

I hunted some good Michigan river bottom property for several years and had opportunities at good bucks every year. Had public land on both sides. One opening day of gun season I saw 42 deer several of which were bucks and the next day saw zero. Never seen a more.dramatic example.of.how.pressure shuts down deer movement.

The best bow hunting is the week leading up to rifle day. I say rifle day, because the morning sounds like a fire-fight on the Eastside of Detroit. By lunch, I'm ready to head to Alabama.

November 1 thru 17 are the best days to be in the woods up there imo.

I asked Steve about hunting opening day of gun. He said you don’t want to be here I promise.