Richie , Richie , Richie
Your attempt at making me look like the foolish one is back firing!
How long have you been around??
When I started deerhunting we had what we called a party permit. A group of hunters could apply for a single doe tag and if lucky enough to recieve one , one hunter wore the doe tag on his arm and that group of hunters could shoot one doe. After that , they changed to a antlerless permit for individual hunters that was obtained thru lottery. You see , all this protection of the female species was to
increase the entire deer herd. Wisconsin isn't the only state that went thru this. So , wouldn't you say it would be the same logic applied to
decreasing the deer herd (shooting the female species)??? BTW , theres a
huge difference between herd management and eradication. Try again!
You full blown trophy hunters are all alike!<img src=icon_smile_dissapprove.gif border=0 align=middle> You base your arguements on QDM and the health of the herd , buts it's all about the big racks and nothing else! Your statements have already proven your hypocracy in this arguement.
Maintaining a even buck to doe ratio is what QDM is all about , so dont go preaching QDM and in the other cheek spout off about how you'll question any experienced hunter for shooting a young buck , even after doing his part at maintaining an even buck to doe ratio!
<font color=red>Go back to to my post where I numbered questions #1 thru #8. It is the first response in black text after those questions. I would definately question it if it were an experienced hunter taking the small, young buck. The only possible exceptions now that I think about it, would be if an experienced hunter is in dire need to feed his/her family, like the one I need to hunt for, putting a young animal out of its misery due to sickness, unrecoverable injury, or immediate danger to his/her life or family members life, ect. Other than that, there is no reason what so ever, for an experienced hunter to tag a young buck.</font id=red>
That has got to be the most pathetic paragraph I've read in this whole debate!
As for the experienced hunter who spends alot of time and
money on hunting and hunts in a remote area where a deer sighting is rare , your still gonna question his choice on shooting a small buck?? Oh , unless he
needs the meat.
<font color=red>If I send you my address, will you mail me the regualtions book or guide that states these facts of herd reduction?? Missouri has one that I mentioned earlier, that comes right out and says the reasons why we have and need a significant doe harvest program, and in not one paragraph does it state in the name of "herd reduction" or anything close to that. QDM can be put into place in areas with a lcak of herd numbers, and still work.</font id=red>
I find it hard to believe that in Missouri your DNR hasn't stated somewhere , somehow , that they need to reduce the herd size. There are enough Wi folks around here who can vouge for the fact that the WIDNR is open about the T-Zone hunts (doe only) and the need to reduce our deer herd. It's common sense for Christs sake , do you have to see it in the hunting regs before you believe it?
For those areas that have too many does ;
I'm still waiting for a logical explanation to why it would be wrong for an experienced hunter to harvest a young buck as long as he harvested a couple does to do his part for the deer herd.