Bogobble how many gun hunters hunt the last two weeks really? i hunted every weekend dureing the season and heard very few shots the last two weeks. i saw huters but they were either hard core or just getting to go.
I don't believe the bag limits are the reason at least in my area. our camp has two thousand acres and even with the doe limit we only killed about five. and havent killed very many for years.
Now there are some that show up and hunt gov't land and do take a doe cause they just want a deer. but i don't think it is that many.
I think like deerslayer444 they have adjusted to move at night. deer are adaptable creatures and i think they have . in my grandfathers day they ran dogs and kept them stirred up. they killed lots of bucks. you know very few were chasing does just keeping away from the dogs.
but if the AG&F is going to cut gun and muzzleloader then by all means bows to.
lets have a year or two of limited season and see how the popualtion really is. i was told that la had the same issue years back. they did shorten there season and adjusted the bag limits. guy said they paid for that with a explosion in the deer population. season was then made longer than ever and bag limits increased.
I don't know what the answer is . i just know some of the ones that have complained around me couldnt find a deer if it pi**ed on them. and they are the ones complaining .my 12 y/o tagged out this year and took two bucks and two does. i guess he might have killed the last of the breeding stock!<img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

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