RE: Trophy Hunting?
<font color=red>The states that have antler restrictions have had low doe harvests?????Please explain what type of harvests they have been having then!! If the number of does harvested is very low, this must mean one thing, that too many bucks are being harvested!!! So, an imposed antler restriction is just that---a restricition that limits the hunter to what they can harvest legally!! This is what I have been saying all along!! If hunters do not change their ways, antler restrictions are soon to follow!!! I don't want it to get to a point in my state to where more restrictions are imposed!! Foremost and first of all, for all of the young or inexperienced hunters who need to take smaller bucks for their first kill!!! The last thing I want to do is tell a kid that he/she cannot shoot that buck in front of them because it is too small!!! But again, this thread is about the experienced hunter, not the young and inexperienced hunters!!!!!</font id=red>
Exactly! The states with low doe harvests are being forced into antler restrictions to increase the doe harvest. My question to you was , what about the states who have a good doe harvest , ie Wi has two doe only seasons in addition to bow and gun season. We get a good doe harvest , so do you condemn the "experienced hunter" who shoots young bucks in this scenario?
<font color=red>The warning will be the number of buck sightings all together, getting less and less. Mark my words, sooner or later, just about every state will impose antler restrctions due to this thinking that refuses to be changed.</font id=red>
And my warning to those states who are forcing doe harvests by imposing antler restrictions would be , watch the number of deer sightings get less and less. They (Alt) can give you all the QDM or TBM crap they want. Their only goal is to drastically reduce the entire deer herd numbers by harvesting more does.
<font color=red>I am answering the question, and it is not based on emotion. I never condemned "your area farmers" for anything. I stated that I am far from a stranger to the farming community, and the farmers that I know have never complained about crop damage to a degree to where it will be on the verge of breaking them. I know it, and they know it. Deer do minimal damage to crops, but so do racoons, squirrels, possums, crows, ect. Don't twist my words around.</font id=red>
I dont even know how to respond to that reply. You have certainly ruined your knowlege of the farming community credibility with that statement. Have you ever seen first hand what alot of deer can do to a soybean field? Corn fields dont get quite the damage as a bean field but still enough to pinch your pocket book if it's your bread and butter.
<font color=red>Go ahead and explain to me how the farmers in your area can have sooo much crop damage, when YOU have just got done saying that the area does not hold the deer numbers???? If you are refering to the "farm country" holding more deer and do more damage, I WILL completely disagree with you. Farmers know the game there, just as they do here!! If they do not claim some sort of loss in the name of "crop damage" or "flood damage" or something like that, they will not recieve their insurance, government subsidies, ect.!!!! I know the game well, and so do they!!!
So you can spout off and yell "crop damage" and claim to show me numbers all you want!! I know better!!! I do not blame the farmers for it either!!! They are what this country is based on in my opinion, and DESERVE all of the breaks that they can get!!!</font id=red>
Spout off?? You know better? Sure doesn't sound like it! I've given you logical answers to your questions and in return you bare your teeth and accuse me of "spouting off"?? How I wish the farmers in my area had computers so I could email this page to them. They would get a kick out of your analagy. Especially how they claim crop damage just for the extra money , pathetic! Crop damage subsidies dont cover HALF of the actual crop damage.
And just so you dont think I'm talking in circles. The farm country (my area) has the over population problems. The national forests (where a guy is justified in shooting the first buck he sees) are in northern Wisconsin. It's a mix of not as big of deer population and vast (mile and miles) forest.
I dont have any questions for you , but feel free to number your questions and we'll be glad to answer them again.