ORIGINAL: falcon
"I was out scouting this morning again. The snow really helps to put the sneak on them out there.
What in the world is snow?
"Saw two does and got to within 40-30 yards of the smaller one. But I decided no more doe shooting on my property. The deer are too few now. Can't shoot all the cows and expect the calf crop to be worth a darn.""
You have a very good point there.Something has happened to a lot of the deer here.This part of OK is over-run with hogs. Deer do not like to drink at ponds where the hogs wallow and i've seen hogs chase deer off the food plots. IMO the hogs kill a lot of fawns. This fall we have a bumper crop of acorns and the hog population will increase expotentially next year.
Get that buck.
falcon you might be the one to ask. Our Department of Natural Resources ( DNR ) put out an advisory that any hunters encountering hogs in the wild are encouraged to shoot them, remove them from the woods, and turn them over to the DNR. The DNR says they want to test them for disease and basically make sure that hogs do not get a foot hold in the country. What disease are they talking about? Just wondered. Do wild hogs carry soemthing we should know about. After all I read about people shooting them all the time and eating them.
If I have to ruin my hunt by shooting a hog, then dragging it out of the woods, and then hauling it to the DNR only for them to take the thing away.. well guess what? I am out there for deer...