I hunt in s.clinton/n.centre co's wmu 4d, For 3 yrs i have been posting on HNI that the deer were gone and seen alot of other posters stating the same. The 1st year,,I was told in no uncertain terms that "my a$$ was out"!,, I was a slack hunter who did'nt go far enough from the truck and i better get used to it because things were going to change for the better.
The 2nd year: more or less the same thing but more and more guys/gals on here were reporting less & less deer sightings. But now we have the DCNR?Pgc? whoever the he!! it was gonna spend money to do flyovers with a chopper and infrared sumpin or other to tell us that the deer are there,Yep the deer are there guys,,,ya'll just aint huntin em hard enuff!
Now finally this year,,,i reportedat the end of the 1stweek of buck season that after 61 hours on stand i was proud to say that i saw a friggin deer,,one lousy 6pt.scrub buck that my son missed (fast shot thru the fog) But some on here still refused to believe that the deer just were not there,,they would rather blame bad weather and hunting the "same ole stand" was the cause of not seeing deer,,After all the PGC said they were there and they had hard "Facts" to prove that the deer were there.
I myself say BULLSH!T
What better knowledge can you get to prove any point that your trying to make than from a guy who knows what he's talking about?
Why do some people think that a guy who has been hunting all of his life like alot of guys on here have been is inferior when it comes to knowledge over lets say a friggin helicopter with sum unfriggin known type of heat sensing unit that can tell if a deer is on a certain piece of property?
Im from the old school where a guy tells me he's seeing a problem with the local deer herd and im believing him,,plain and simple.The man has been hunting for 40-50 years and all the sudden he's retarded???? I dont think so.
Im not the sharpest tool in the shed so to speak but i can tell ya this,,you think it's bad now,,just wait,,,because it's gonna get worse. Because some of us that just knew the PGC,,,DCNR,,and the rest of the so called "fact Holders" who knew everything about our deer herd talked some of us into going out in the stands and shooting every friggin doe we came across in the name of "bigger Bucks" Well,,now we have no doe,,,whats worse we have no Fawns.Like i said before im no scholar but no does,,,no fawns ,,means no bigger bucks,,He!!,,no bucks at all
Me,,,id rather see 30 does a day with their young in tow and shoot a spike buck than have what we currently have!