ORIGINAL: tschaef
Congrats DD,
but if you don't mind me asking, if your areas are so full of deer and you don't need all the meat why don't you take up archery and give yourself a bit of a challenge. I wouldn't be nearly as hardcore about hunting as I am if it was as easy as you make it sound.
Where Ilive its 1 tag per year/hunter (except for a few archery only areas where we can buy additional), and I still prefer to be out with the bow. If its your health try out a x-bow.
Not bashing you at all, congrats again, I'm just curious.
T.S. I am 54 years old and bow hunted since 1973 ..almost 33 years ... I just can't see well enough up close anymore to be able to focus on the pin and the deer at the same time and have no interest in just wounding an animal ... I did buy a crossbow this year and will use it next year after I have had some time to practice ... I used a M/L today instead of a rifle even though it is not M/L season (all weapons season)... its really not THAT easy but I have had a good year .. I am lucky to hunt in an area that has a lot of deer but not a lot of "trophy" deer ...we hunt very small tracks of land here in Alabama so its very hard to try and manage deer ...
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