ORIGINAL: DennyF
Still plenty of deer around to hunt. Most of us go after them like we always have. Some give it a wee stab, then settle-in on their computers to cry the rest of the year.
That' my opinion. I could be wrong?
If there were still plenty of deer around then hunters would still be harvesting over 200K buck like we did in 2000 and 2001. That is when we had plenty of deer around. Now we only have enough so we can harvest around a 120K buck.
It doesn't matter how much time hunters spend on their computers the rest of the year, we are still harvesting the vast majority of our legal buck each year,so scouting more, hunting harder and moving more will not increase the number of successful buck hunters.