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12-21-2008 | 09:20 AM

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sproulman

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RE: Rifle season 2008 is history

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It seems that the word from the majority of hunters in the WMU's that had the first 5 days as buck only has been positive. Obviously it's too soon to tell how it affected the harvest but the hunters I've heard from seem to be happy with the change.

the only bad thing is, i used too have second week almost to myself and still had that buck around.

i feel that half the bucks killed that made it thru first week, got it on saturday of first week.

i like it because it gets hunters back here for another week to hunt and SPENDING their money.

i actually saw more CREWS the first saturday and second monday than i did all week.

i saw like 3 crews first m-f,then 5 crews on saturday and 3 more on monday of second week.

I spent the first Saturday in Illinois so I didn't get to see the pressure that day but in all my travels the second week, I saw plenty of deer but only two hunters out in 2B during the week. The last Friday, I saw zero hunters vehicles parked at typical spots on my way to camp in 2F. On Saturday morning, we overslept and left camp at about first light. We saw a grand total of four vehicles parked along theentire length Muzette road along SGL 24 and three vehicles including our two along the forest road we hunted. We saw far more deer than hunters. The pressure after opening day everywhere I saw was just about nil in spite of seeing plenty of deer and deer sign.

It just seems like nobody hunts much after opening day anymore.

not in clinton county,hunters numbers were way up ,both first week and second week.

yet, i only saw 3 buck and 2 doe killed for about 250 hunters in say about 10 mile area.

first week,mon,tues,wed most of hunters sat,very few crews, i saw 3 that drove my area in first week,but a ton of treesitters.

i saw 1 buck and killed by about 60 hunters.

then came saturday, oh my, hunters,same treesitters came back and add in about 5 crews in my area,all different crews too,not same ones from first week.

then monday, oh my, hunters all over,only 1 buck killed and no doe.

avg crew was 9 to 11 hunters,1 crew was 20 hunters, no deeron that monday.

then i came out tues/wed/thurs.

crews all over place but again,ALL DIFFERENT HUNTERS.

they had no deer for 2 days of hunting.

i dont think i heard of more than around 10 bucks killed local.

there was more big bucks killed by kids than all buck by adults in this part of county.

i used to see same local crews only first week, this year, i saw them for 2 weeks,hunting very hard and getting hardly anything.

i crew got 3 bucks and 2 doe out of 20 hunters on and off number for 2 weeks.

last year they got 8 buck, 7 of which were spikes,they had 11 kids in crew.

this year 3 buck and 2 doe.

these hunters i grew up with, they hunt same areas for at least,30 years on adults that are in crew.

so,thats what i saw.

i tried to talk some of crews out of killing those 3 doe i had in my area, 1 said ,sproul, i shot one in early muzzleloader on pipeline, now that leaves me 2 and that is what i saw on tracks first week, 2.

i just dont understand hunters i see today, they dont care if a doe is left in area for next year.

they just move to another area and clean them out.

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