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Old 08-03-2007 | 02:57 PM
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SteveBNy
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From: Moravia NY USA
Default RE: Healthy herd myth

If NY put a MARS say 3 on a side for bucks how would that effect your hunting?
Would not effect mine much since for the most part, I choose to wait for and OLDER buck (not always, but mostly) and fill the freezer with the 2 to6
doe tags we can get.The 3/side would actually increase the pressure on the aprox 50% of our 1 1/2 yo bucks that meet or exceed this standard. Counter productive and leads to hi grading - which cannot be argued as healthy.

Doe tags hear are given based on pop densities in the ind wmu's - some give few or none al the way to others where 2 are expected and you can get 2 additional signed over to you. This is with your big game (gun/reg season) license. Buy a bow/mz license and get an additional either sex and antler less.

The hunters who statewide mar would hurtare the gun only guys who don't get drawn for a doe tag. Severely limits what they can shoot - in a couple years of no opportunities, they will drop out and our numbers drop. Also affected are the reg season hunters who may only get out opening day and maybe Thanksgiving morning - severely restrict their chances of shooting a deer and we start to loose them as well. These 2 groups make up a significant % of our total numbers - numbers needed to protect our seasons. I don't want to lose even one of them because I want to restrict them only to the way I hunt.

Just my thoughts
Steve


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