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Old 06-09-2007 | 05:15 AM
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BigWay
 
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Default RE: Earn a buck

I'm a farmer, hunter, and a butcher in the great state of NJ. We've had EAB for several years now. It's a great management tool if used the way it was intended. However, here's some of the problems. In NJ a button buck (antlerless deer) will count as a doe and fill your EAB requirement. Rediculous but true. So what happens, alot of guys will shoot a BB over a pile of corn and now there good to go on a buck. Defeats the whole purpose. When EAB first started every road kill doe or BB was being checked in. Not only being checked in once but multiple times, by multiple people. Here's how it works. Someone picks up a road kill or actually shoots an antlerless deer, checks it in, then calls his buddy, throws it in the back of his truck and back to check station it goes. Now his buddy's good to go. The F&G got wise to this so they started marking the hind quarter with a black X, but that easily wiped off. So now they put the metal possesion seal through the ear. So now that deer has a cut in the ear signifying it has been checked in. But if the person working at the check station doesn't feel like walking out to the truck and cutting the ear for the tag, who knows what's going to happen.
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