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Old 10-09-2006 | 07:32 PM
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Default RE: How many do you see?

My family and I used to have a similar situation a while back. It would be nothing to see forty deer during one day of hunting. We'd take two bucks a year but we'd see a couple hundred does and fawns in between every buck sighting. Well the neighbor was having a huge problem trying to harvest alfalfa so he contacted the DNR. The DNR counted over three hundred deer in three fields that were within a mile of each other. The farmer was issued block permits and ran ads in the newspaper to get people to take deer off his farm. Needless to say it got the population back in check and we're taking more does to keep it that way. Last year I passed up over a dozen different bucks and maybe hunted a dozen days. I'd talk to your local officials and see if there's a way they can help get the ratio back in order.
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