ORIGINAL: Cornelius08

RSB, Doug hunts. Lots of people do. He doesnt speak from a hunters perspective. He speaks like an obtuse "naturalist". A few of which even claim to be hunters. Although their goals dont include "love of hunting"...Its simply a way to slaughter the 150 lb white tail tree wrecker rats.[:'(]

"Yes many of the units of the southwest presently do have fair to good habitat."

And ALWAYS has been.

"If is for that reason the habitat there is still pretty good. If you back off of the deer harvests you will see the habitat decline and then you will also so the deer numbers decline even more then they are now."

Nope...Didnt happen with over twice the present overwinter herd, so thats utter nonsense.

"If you protect the deer instead of the habitat then the deer will damage the habitat and then the deer numbers will decline to where the can’t possibly increase unless the habitat improves first."

And thesw herd is FAR from that point.Also, that "point" has its limits. The point of diminished returns.For no reason other than catering to ecofools and their distorted beliefs of presettlement condition "utopias".

"Those areas certainly aren’t exempt from having too many deer, declining habitat and naturally declining deer populations that then follow declining habitat."

No danger of that. Thanks for the concern. You know even far less about down here than you do your own area. And that is saying much.

"As for you comment concerning the report cards and 60% of the hunters not reporting about all I can say if that it seems you don’t have any idea how that works either."

I do know that very conveniently the reporting rateissaid to be dropping along with the dropping harvest. Therefore its very likely the dropping harvest is actually dropping even more than the estimates show thanks to some good ol' pgc "massaging".

"That simply didn’t leave enough bucks in the fall population to get the does bred during the correct time periods. "

Thats a lie and the pgc reproductive data proves it. The timing of the breeding window according to pgc HAS NOT CHANGED. Also, as we discussed, the embryo counts DROPPED as did the percentage of adult does bred STEADILY since this joke reduction has been ongoing. Lets stick to the facts and not make up stuff. We have discussed the pgc data enough for you to have memorized this by now. But apparently you dont want to know the truth. Read the annual reports, you just may learn something.