Deer Stampede
 

Check out this video.

http://www.louisianasportsman.com/lp...port&id=154712

Now, that is a LOT of backstraps!

witch one to shot first at one point there was two side by side two with one shoot that would drive me nuts all those deer

Many years ago, before the DNR decided to take control and manage the herd, in Wisconsin we used to have some fields where you would see twenty deer at a time. Some farmers claimed even more then 20 at a time. All of that is about gone now. The DNR claims all the deer together like that is what caused the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease. This could well be, but it was sure nice to have a deer season where you were almost certain that if you hunted hard, you would take meat home.

In that field, that is a lot of deer moving. This of what a herd like that would do to a cash crop of say corn or soybeans.

Same thing here in Pa. while I have never seen as many as are in that video together, I have seen fifty or more deer together in fields many times. Up until Alt initiated his program of annihilation of the doe herd that was embraced by the Game Commission, we had a lot of deer. The antler restrictions and the management plan we now have has made for some really nice bucks being taken here in the Keystone State. But it didn't come without consequences. License sales continue to drop each year, many hunters just got tired of not seeing deer and quit. We used to have an estimated 1.2 MILLION hunters afield on opening day and the last estimate was down to around 700,000 and dropping. You all know how hard it is to keep a young person interested in anything for very long, try taking a new hunter out and expecting them to sit all day and stare at trees. It was normal to see 40-50 deer on opening day of rifle season here on my own property, this season's opener I saw THREE and last season I saw ONE! Now, I don't have to kill a deer to enjoy hunting, but I like to see deer when I hunt. The state's shoot anything that's brown policy has really knocked our herd down to a fraction of what it once was. My wife and I passed all the opportunities we had to take a doe throughout the rifle season and we both had doe tags. A lot of my friends and I are beginning to feel as though we have to do something to get our deer back by not shooting does. But the state could care less, they're only in it for the money. We now have WAY too many seasons/opportunities to kill does and there are WAY too many doe tags being issued. Any more if I do take an antlerless deer, it's in the late flintlock season when you have to work a lot harder to get one and I try to take a yearling and leave the older does that have been bred alone...BPS

Boy I know where they are goin' :) That C'mere deer stuff flatr out works!

Dave......JW

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When I rode the bus to school in kindergarten back in 1966 the bus passed by the corn fields that just happen to be by my home now and are still here. Anyway back then befor they started all the Doe Tags we'd see over 300 deer in the corn fields in the mornings, sometimes way more. I could'nt imagine hunting then and seeing all them deer comming back through the woods by me while in stand. But then you could'nt hunt does, well you could with a Party Permit that would allow 4 hunters on a Tag for a doe, but it would have been a sight anyway.
(BP)

I do believe they have an over population problem there. That is an awful lot of deer for one area. Not sure what time of year it was but there looks like an lot of slick heads there.

I saw that video the other day on a Arkansas forum that I am on. The person that put it up said he shot it outside the town of Beebe. He stated that he had shot it during the last flood. Beebe is about 70 miles south of where I live.