ORIGINAL: doughboysigep
I didn't. maybe you don't read so good.
Priceless
..........do you even see the comedy in using that statement to bash someone else's literacy skills??
and again, more permits in your area means there are more deer to harvest and/or less hunters to harvets the deer (ie - need to control the pop. more).
I wish that were true.........and I agree that is why you give out more permits. Problem is their just aren't enough deer to justify handing out that many tags in the areas I hunt. I can't even imagine how sparse the deer must be in places where you can't even get 2 tags. You must be lucky to see one deer all year.
but we have been down that road before - that's right, there are no deer in your area
Silly statements like that just flush your credibility down the drain...........it either means that you have not been reading the thread at all or your so closed minded that no matter what you read you think it all means the same thing. I....or anyone else for that matter have NEVER said there were no deer in my area. My family still took 3 deer this year and my buddies another 2. What I have said over and over is that the deer numbers are down to a very low level and we had to work extremely hard just to get a chance to see some deer and thankfully we were skilled enough to seal the deal when we did or we would have no meat for the year. We know the woods we hunt very well and we know how many deer you can expect to see thoughout the year.........we don't have wild or unreal expectations because the know the areas and what they are capable of providing and also what they are not capable of.
Well, spending so much time in just a few places it is not hard to realize......especially when conferring with others how things are going out in the trees. You see it with your own eyes and your family sees the same and all your friends and other locals see it as well. It's just a fact that in the areas I hunt the deer numbers are down. I have no problem with that in and of itself. What I do have a problem with is other people who have never even been there (YOU and a few others) telling me they know more about what is going on in my area then I and every other hunter that have spent our whole lives hunting in. I also have a problem with the DEC telling me that the local herd is large enough that they need to give out 2 doe tags to each hunter in those areas EVERY year. That is just ludicrous. The numbers are down and they have been going down for a long time........that is not the actual problem. The problem lies with the DEC and others failing to realize this or realizing it and not doing anything about it. The numbers are down......OK, just tinker with the tags a little and get it to bounce back in 2-3 years. No big deal and I am fine with that. I will wait patiently as long as I see someone actually doing something to help us and not make things worse.
More years of tag free for alls will reduce the numbers even more and make it even harder to bounce back from. If they believe we have such high numbers of deer that we should be listed as ALL-ALL on the tag draw something is VERY wrong......plain and simple.
P.S. I see you are getting the hang of that quote feature
