ORIGINAL: dvalliere
I came across a statement in another thread that caught my attention:
ORIGINAL: retrieverman
I have killed nearly 200 deer in my life...
200?! I can't even fathom that. I've been hunting 4 years (not counting this year yet) and taken 5 deer. At that rate, I'd need to hunt for another 160 years to catchup to retrieverman! (I do know a few fellows locally who have large families and hunt deer as their major source of meat that would meet or exceed retrieverman but they're atypical.)
How many deer have you harvested and how many years have you been hunting deer?
I have been deer hunting since 1983 and have actually lost count, but a couple of years ago, I was at 174.
I hunt in Oklahoma and Texas, and on my place here in Texas, I get 7 extra management doe tags. I am allowed a buck and doe in both rifle and muzzleloader seasons, and that is 4 deer from OK. I am allowed a "cull" buck and another over 13" spread buck here in Texas, and with the doe tags I am allowed, that is a total of 9 deer here. At 13 deer per season, a body count of 200 is not a stretch.
I am predicting the next question being what do I do with the meat. My family eats alot of venison, but I give several deer a year to a friend who distributes it to low income people in his church.
As of Monday, the body count for 2008 is two, and Texas rifle season opens Saturday.