RE: WEST VIRGINIA Deer Hunting
Live in WV hunt in OH because my area of WV has to many deer. We need a one buck a year limit and places that need herd reduction need more doe tags. Places that don't should have reduced bag limits. Age makes bucks bigger and when you are allowed to kill 5 bucks a year not many get by to reach 2 1/2 plus years. If you go 1100 feet across the OH river there are big bucks running everywhere. The habitat is no better and the mature bucks aren't that much bigger than ours but they have half the herd density and only allow 1 buck a year to be killed. I wish the DNR would do a trial management run in the Northern Panhandle of WV with a one buck limit and try and reduce the herd some more and see the results in 5-10 years. We would have comparable if not better hunting than the 4 bowhunting only counties. But the DNR makes to much money off of the extra buck and bow tags to ever go to a one buck a year system. So until they raise the license fee we will never get to see a one buck a year limit. That's too bad,too because we could have some good hunting.