silentassassin i don' t think i am the exception or the rule. i just hunted. i know some who complained the loudest spend more time playing poker and drinking at the camp than hunting.
they expect deer to just come on by when they are on the stand. for there hour!
now this is not all just alot i have heard in my presence. they are the one' s that complained when the three point rule came in cause they couldnt get there meat on the first spike they saw. you know you can' t eat those horns type folks?
you tell them as bucks mature they become more and more nocturnal and much harder to kill. and they say we ain' t got no bucks.
you ask them why? and the response is something like cause we been killing the mommas! give us a break!

only about 10% of hunters kill a buck anyway.

i see lots of deer in the summer ,not just on my lease' s . i could take you this afternoon and we could sit and probably see 40 to 50 or more before dark.

one of the loudest complainers i know has a 2500 acre hunting club with about 45 members! weeks before the season yahoos run his woods with wheelers and all season they do this. why are they not seeing any deer ? this same guy pays money to hunt with me. but i have 2000acres and 16 members . i have rules and if you have bad habits .you gone!
he kills his deer and turkeys on my lease' s!my nieghbors all kill good deer and see lots! as a matter of fact they killed better bucks this year then we did. i am going to have to study how this happened.

The AG&F ?? boy i am impressed that they feel the same as you!! i have never had any faith in that organization.
These people are idiots! take a little lake called bragg lake in ouachita county. people kept telling them about a gator in the lake. those idiots said there are not any alligators in ouachita county. well after lots of dogs become food for a 12 ft gator and some pictures were taken they became believers. ok they catch the gator and decide to move him to a lake that belonged to the ag&f oh about 15 miles away. well they ,the biologist , didnt realize the big male gator would do his best to get to his females. he was hit by cars walking down a us highway!
he did a number on a few. it my friends tow truck to get him out of the highway.

now if your ever in ouachita county and are near bragg lake just read the gator warning signs!

Doesnt mississippi have higher bag limits than us? la? al? ga?
It really doesnt bother me what the boneheads do . i will have my deer meat for the year.

in closing i don' t think it' s fair to really compare north ar to south ar. and the ag&f comm. shouldnt either.
but what do i know i just live in the woods and don' t have a BS in bio. from UALR and live in the suburbs of west LR. i don' t know anything about whitetail deer of south arkansas.


Hawgz you should have taken a big fat doe. they eat gooooooood!
the does were fatter than i have ever seen them this year. my boy shot one and i swear it had 1/2 " of fat covering the tenderloins. your knife just got that coating of fat on it. i had to boil the thing to get the fat off.
i don' t have a camtraker . i have been thinking about one.
i would like to have pictures of some of the bucks i have seen in the summer to show folks in the fall. i mean they disappear in the fall so i may as well have a picture to study.