ORIGINAL: bawanajim
ORIGINAL: germain
We stopped killing does in our area a few years back.Others take care of the doe kill.
But it really has a small impact because 99.9% of the land around us is open to hunting and like anywhere else in this state if most land is open to hunting you're gonna have few deer.
Really you can make a difference,dead dear will say I'm wrong but according to him every ones wrong.
At this time the block hand will come to play.
Take a piece of paper and put two slashes on the top.
Under them put two slashes each as for their fawns .
And the next year two more slashes shows that by killing two doe you did what to your herd?
The idea that if you don't shoot them some one else will is bunk. Let them go!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah we let them go alright and most still get whacked.But hey we save a few.
With the two weeks of snow cover this year they really made out because the area is thick and without snow the deer slip by.I watched a couple of stupid does wander down through sticking out like a sore thumb in the snow.They got whacked.Without that snow cover I wouldn't have never seen them and I doubt the others would have either.