ORIGINAL: BuckAlley
I think the divorce rate is going to increase if the deer pop doesn't come up, hahaha. My wife is ready to boot me in the butt if this season doesn't end soon. I'm in the woods every chance I get this year. At least 4-5 days every wk. I'm still deerless, and she's glad the Northern Tier just ended Sun., and knows I got 1 wknd left in the south. If I don't get a deer this wknd, I don't know how I'm going to tell her there's a late B.P. season yet!!! Its Christmas time of the year to her, and I'm still in the gotta get a deer mode.
I hear ya.........I have been in the woods more then I have been in my house over the last 7 weeks. I bet I have spent well over $500 in gas driving around all season so far. I know my wife pointed out that I had spent $200 in gas over a 10 day period at one point [
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She asked me why I don't just pay to go hunt somewhere and enjoy a trip and also see some nice deer. I am starting to consider that as a logical option.
Its was just nice to see all those deer. Now as the yrs have passed we have to hunt hard just to see a deer.
What a wonderful way to get kids interested in hunting huh??
I do fully agree hunters willl become less selective in their harvests with less deer being seen.
With deer numbers so low I wouldn't even dream of letting anything walk.........I can't even hardly find any deer......let alone be selective about what I take. It is so bad now that I won't even go out unless it is in my doe tag area because having only seen one buck all year doesn't make me feel like I have too good a chance in areas where all I have to fill is my buck tag.
If a fawn comes upon me in those final mins. I'm not sure I won't pull that trigger. I won't be happy about it, and probably cuss the DEC for forcing me into such a decision to begin with. Yes it'll be my decision. But not 1 hunter out there can tell me they plan to hunt all season long, and go deerless. But its what were being forced into.
I am sure I WILL pull the trigger.
Ok so hunters do make the choices on what deer to harvest. But the DEC leads us to believe the population is good enough to fill that doe permit they issued us.
Exactly.
We as hunters have come to rely on the DEC for keeping a balanced, and healthy herd. Its what they do.
It's what they are
supposed to do.
Next I wonder if the DEC's whole mgmt system should be upgraded to the times. If the times, and environment as changed so much. Shouldn't their system of mgmt.
Bottom line is that people are just starting to realize that the DEC doesn't know what the hell the real status of the deer herd is........they have been getting by on guessing for so long and fortunately for them the herd was at a level that didn't suffer because of their stupidity. Then they went and got too smart or greedy for their own good and gave away permits like maniacs............and now we have a mess on our hands and they have no idea how to fix it.........or maybe they don't want it fixed.
They will come out in the spring and say the numbers are down and blame the snow and low hunters blah, blah, blah and then they will tell everyone what a great state NY is for deer hunting all through the year and to expect great things for 2006..........smae crap........different year.
Anyone read the outdoors section of the newspaper every sunday?? Are these guys paid to pump up NY deer hunting or what?? All they do is tell everyone how great the season is going and how many big bucks are falling to local hunters. WTF?? Who is cutting them a check??.......Showing some idiot who shot a 10 pointer on his grampa's dairy farm and telling everyone how great the area is for deer is practically libel.