alsgar, what town are you near? I am about 25 miles SW of Enid. As far as poaching, I don't really see much of it here. It's really almost a thing of the past.

On the button buck issue, I would make a hunter check it as a buck if they hadn't already checked a buck. If they already checked in a buck, I would not penalize them for then bringing in a button buck.

The idea of lowering the buck limit from 3 to 2 in my opinion would not change the harvest that much. I don't know a lot of people who shoot 3 bucks. I think the bulk of bucks are shot by people hunting muzzleloader and rifle season and killing 2 bucks.

Raising the price per tag on bucks might not be a bad idea or any other incentive to encourage not shooting small bucks. However someone like me with a lifetime lisence doesn't really care what the price of tags are.

A lot of people want to kill a "buck" because it sounds better than saying you shot a doe. In my experience, young bucks are the easiest deer to kill. And for eating, we all know you can't beat a doe.

How about the possibility of allowing someone the option of killing a doe on a buck tag?

I also agree with making a deer tag universal for each hunting method, but the State won't do that. It would cost them money. Every tag not filled is money in the State's pocket.

I'm leaning toward favoring an antler point restriction. Maybe 3 on the main beam at least on one side. I've seen a few deer around here without brow tines, so I don't think I would count the brow tine.

The problem I see with that is that I have seen a lot of really nice basket racked 8 points with beautifully shaped racks that would be great bucks in a couple of years, so those deer would be killed in place of a crappy spike or a 6 point with an inferior rack.

I was never really in favor of adding an extra week to the rifle season and I think that just adds to more small bucks being killed.