More or less deer?
12-04-2007, 01:23 PM
#3
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Hillsdale,IN
Posts: 552
RE: More or less deer?
Well, I try to harvest around two or three does a year along with a buck. Right now Im at one buck and two does with one more tag to fill. I would probably kill more does to try to even out the buck doeratio if tags were cheaper.
12-04-2007, 01:35 PM
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location:
Posts: 261
RE: More or less deer?
tough one. I rarely find myself at the end of the season saying either that I have too much meat or that I need more. I donate every other deer I shoot, so sometimes I feel compelled to shoot more. also, I live 2 hr away from where I hunt, so I don't really ever get my fill of it, especially for bowhunting.
12-04-2007, 01:39 PM
#6
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Oct 1998
Location: Hughesville, PA USA
Posts: 18,322
RE: More or less deer?
At the stage of hunting I am in right now, it's has nothing to do with the killing part of the hunt. I'm out there because I love it so much. If I had the want to kill more deer, I'd opt for more doe tags, or a doe tag. Now if the need to kill more does were present in my core areas I would do so.
So is it the want or the need that drives me/us? For me, I'm more inclined to be content hunting for a single buck in my home state. Now if the need arose and we could get two buck tags, sure I'd do so to continue the hunt but again, I think the want is different than the need.
What drives me to leave my home state then? Hmm, is it the want to kill more deer or the need to hunt more. HHmm, I suppose I travel on the possibility of the kill more so than the actual kill. Then again, I wonder what the hell I'm talking about. I just don't know.
So is it the want or the need that drives me/us? For me, I'm more inclined to be content hunting for a single buck in my home state. Now if the need arose and we could get two buck tags, sure I'd do so to continue the hunt but again, I think the want is different than the need.
What drives me to leave my home state then? Hmm, is it the want to kill more deer or the need to hunt more. HHmm, I suppose I travel on the possibility of the kill more so than the actual kill. Then again, I wonder what the hell I'm talking about. I just don't know.
12-04-2007, 01:40 PM
#8
Dominant Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location:
Posts: 21,043
RE: More or less deer?
There's another angle, here.....for you other guys out there taxed with doe mgmt.
I've learned this season that I don't particularly like killing a lot of deer. Sadly....where I live.....I never see that changing, though (the need).
I've learned this season that I don't particularly like killing a lot of deer. Sadly....where I live.....I never see that changing, though (the need).
12-04-2007, 01:45 PM
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Northern Idaho's Panhandle
Posts: 4,436
RE: More or less deer?
I like it how it is here. 1 buck and you pay more if you want to hunt for the second buck. Predators take care of the does/keeping them in check and some bucks too. I feel like we have lower deer densities than many whitetail hunting areas but mother nature seems to keep the age structure here balanced as well as the buck to doe ratio. In suburban areas we could use extra doe tags. In the mountains nope.
I'd take quality over quantity any day.
I'd take quality over quantity any day.