ORIGINAL: explorer_Jack
ORIGINAL: DougE
On every level,that's one of the dumbest posts I've every read.If we had 10 times less deer,our preseason herd would be down to about 130,000 animals.I guess that's no as bad as the USP consultant claiming that we'd have less than 50000 deer by now.
Genetics don't change with age and no one ever claimed that the average size of 1.5 year old bucks would increase.I people wonder why the PGC doesn't listen to hunters.
So you are saying you never seen 100+ deer in the field or on a stretch of highway before Douge and now you might be lucky to see 5 to 10in those same areas? Now in the areas I hunted there was that many deer. So it's not that stupid. Go back and read some of your posts before you open your mouth and call something stupid that you agreed on. You know damn well there use to be that many deer in a area cause you said so. Who else wants to say that this is not or never was true for an area? You everheard of or spotlighted Spruce Hill or Mitchs straight a way there stupid? Yea, My budy has a home up there where we all meet up and hunt each year. Now go ahead and deny that there is not 10 times less deer in that area. Go ahead putz,call me and others who have lost 10 times the amount of deer that use to be seen on side of roads and in the fields a liar.
If you know these areas I am talking about,you know I am right. Now your comment was one big foolish one to call my facts for that area stupid.
RSBs post was the stupid one. How can you tell the deer heard by the buck harvest if each year you give out more doe tags than buck tags. How many deer do we have now compared to 8 years ago then? This isn't sheep farming now.
If you seriously don’t know that deer populations are most generally estimated and evaluated by the buck harvests then you really and seriously don’t have a clue about how deer populations are estimated in nearly ever state that has deer.
Antler less harvests are controlled with license allocations, but in states were every hunter can hunter for bucks the buck harvest is influenced by the number of bucks in the population and available for harvests and therefore the bases for estimating the pre-season deer population.
That is pretty basic knowledge for people that have even an elementary understand of estimating deer populations. If you don’t believe me as ole Bluebird, it will be interesting to see how he answers just as a credibility check if nothing else.
R.S. Bodenhorn