4 points on one side???? Get real. Its hard enough for my kids to harvest their first buck being 3 points on one side let alone 4. I think the major reason the sighting of deer are down is feeders. They are making the deer nocturnal.But 4 points on one side is not the answer.Unless you make that your second buck.
Then try letting them shoot does instead. I don' t think we should go to that for ever but I do think we need to limit the number of bucks that are being harvested so more of them are around to breed the does that don' t get bred the first go around. It won' t hurt you or your kids to go a couple of years without out shooting a scrub.
50 does in about three hours is what i saw this year!! not a buck in the bunch!
1 buck ! no way! i don' t mind the 4 pt rule for me but like hawgz said it' s hard for kids to harvest a buck.
soark
That makes you an exception and not the rule. If you look you will find that deer numbers are down all over the state including the south part of the state. I have several relatives and friends that hunt all over south AR and all of them are complaining of the lack of deer there also.
As far as the Mississippi comments go well they are just incorrect. Mississippi doesn' t have starving or diseased deer. They have a healthy and abounding deer population. North east AR could easily sustain twice the population that we currently have. I am glad you have deer o' plenty on your leases but that simply isn' t the case for most Arkansans.
So you guys think feeders are responsible for hunters killing 50,000 less deer this year than 2 years ago? If that is the case and they are just going nocturnal how come you don' t see them at night crossing roads or summer before hunting season or you can' t get half as many on trail cam as you did a few years ago?
Apparently, the AGFC agrees with me. The preliminary opinion is that the season is going to be shortened and the limit is going to cut.