Originally Posted by
livbucks
I won't argue with that. I said exactly that very thing. Where I am hunting in 2f, there is virtually no hunting pressure, and hasn't been for a few years, but the deer are scarce, and the predators are everywhere. The tag allotment has virtually nothing to do with the DPSM in my area, so how is the GC to blame? You guys say that the tags should be cut drastically, but that doing so will not make a difference, because it has gone too far. Now you see where I am going with my train of thought? Some of the things you say have no logic.
How many years of closed doe season would it take to get back where we were? Could we get there at all?? Ever?
Kinda fits right in with what RSB told us months ago. That it wasn't predominantly hunting that was controlling em anymore, at least in the traditional big woods. That also fits with the small percentage of does and fawns that were killed by hunters compared to other causes of death in the mortality studies.