ORIGINAL: Germ
Atlas
Where you hunted in sept
What was the hunting pressure like?
Was there an AR in place?
How big was the area you hunted?
What was the herd management plan?
Sorry G-man...........must have missed it.
I hunted in the river bottoms of Montana. 15,000 acres of archery only on private leased ranches/farms. Hunting pressure was as low as it gets......no AR's.......and I had 1 buck tag and 1 doe tag with additional doe tags able to be purchased. My brother and I killed 2 bucks and10 does I believe on a week long hunt. The buck:doe ratio out there would make a QDM'r puke. I honestly couldn't tell you how many deer I saw........in addition to muley, moose, bear, pronghorn and elk. It truely is an amazing place. There is no shortage of bucks either, 100-115" 8 pt are everywhere and bigger bucks are not hard to find.........160" bucks could be spotted in any field at sunset walking and eating.
Weird how so many good bucks can exist and thrive in an area where the buck:doe ratio and population numbers are so out of whack (according to some).
There is a ranch in MI that does what I think your place did. If it is the same concept it is an instersting one.
We just stayed in a rented house and hunted leased private land.........there is no management because not enough people hunt to employ it. A 120" minimum was recommended but not enforced. You could kill whatever you wanted to put your tag on.
BigJ sorry for hijack, please place complaints to "law" and "order" My left and right arms
I thought were strands of thread hanging off your shirt
BTW atlas you girls in NY need to kill a few more bucks, LOL
MI 2006 numbers for Firearm seson ONLY, I am not talking Muzzle loader or archery
168,000 Antlered
93,000 Antlerless (18600 were BB)
261,000 Total
We know how to kill'em[8D]
I can't help it if 699,999 other guys only managed to kill 96,567.............I did my part