ORIGINAL: mobow
Missouri DOC estimates the herd at around 1 million. We, too, can kill 3 bucks and as many does as we buy tags for. Some restrictions apply to that though, such as county.
What amazes me is this.....Missouri hunters kill around 275,000 deer each year, +/- some of course...But the herd has remained pretty constant at 1 million head....That's just amazing to me.....Can you imagine how many deer there would be if we couldn't hunt them??? Well, for a few years anyway, until they all died off..
Well I know alot of people saying Deer numbers have been way down the last couple years.I know on my place use to see several Deer every day,now your lucky to see tracks.
I called Jefferson City the other day,they said they go by Computers to get an estimation on how many Deer we have.
What gets me they change their story on things.Like opening weekend kill being down they said it was because so many chose to not hunt because of it being warm.Then they said what they have been doing is working by bringing the herd into balance.
The same thing is about to happen with our Turkeys.You can not continue to kill the numbers we have,and continue to have bad hatches without numbers being way down.
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