I don't think they ever intended on people trying to actually kill 3 a day, every day, for the whole season. But what they did try to do is promote killing does, and allowing someone to take several in one sit. You wanting to put a cap on it would probably do more harm, as more people would feel there is limits and they'd try to achieve those limits.
As said a ton on this thread any many others. Has been this way for many many years. How many people do you know that kill 3 a day every day? The answer is zero. It's for management plain and simple. Or for those guys that can only hunt a few days a year to fill their freezers. Some of yal are being ridiculous, and have zero clue on what you're talking about. This is a great thing twra has done and they need to leave it alone.
We need to take 15 to 17 off of one property this year. How do we do that? With that philosophy? We can't then farmers get depredation tags and they it is screwed up. We have the control use control when needed it's not hard.
I watched the videos of the meetings where the changes were discussed. TWRA conducted focus groups and at least 2 rounds of surveys. They said that the majority of comments they received indicated hunters wanted the same seasons statewide (stop start), they didn't want the private lands antlerless hunt, they wanted muzzleloader season brought back in CWD counties, and they wanted CWD counties to end with the rest of the state (not end of January).
Deprecation permits shouldn't be allowed, I know of some who've used them to completely annihilate deer populations in parts of our county and a few others. Im sorry but I grew up hunting in the 80s and seen more deer then than now, just my opinion
I disagree but understand your thinking. Im sorry but ever since the extensive doe killing began the county I live in and hunt in has seen a drastic population decline, disease included but there are no way as many deer as in the past. People can get disgruntled, upset or whatever. I grew up hunting from '79 until now and the population where I hunt is overall less
Also I do still see numerous out of county vehicles leaving out with antlerless deer stacked up but to each his own
We generally only kill 3 to 5 a year. But the cold snap last year we have entirely to many deer. We have had several hunts where we are seeing 50 to 60 does a sit between 2 people. Our farms can't support it long term.
I understand, it's just between liberal doe limits and disease the herds around here have been hit hard for a long time
Until your row cropping neighbor gets permits for destruction and leaves a hundred to rot, than you have none to hunt
No. I would rather have the ability to manage it rather then farmers with depredation tags
I literally know of one farmer who obtains the permit and shoots well over a hundred every year. One farm i hunt had never recovered from the guy who use to farm it and got one of those permits. He and his workers shot everything
To me just killing them like they do makes hunting look even worse to the peta nut jobs. Don't need to give them anything they can use against hunting
I hope it was reason #2 because everyone should play by the same rules. Why should private land hunters get extra hunting privilege?
Just a guess but the goal may have to do with the number of traffic accidents in unit L also. If the population has declined then vehicle damage should be declining also. It hasn't. I work LE in the unit L area and have to respond to deer vs vehicle calls almost daily.
For me it's just a mental thing. As long as I "can" kill a buck, I don't want to kill a doe and possibly miss the chance at a buck that (in my mind) is just out of sight when I shoot that doe....lol...If it is antlerless only, I know i can't legally shoot a buck.
