Throw out deer management
09-14-2008, 05:20 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: charlottesville, virginia
Posts: 1,732
RE: Throw out deer management
No, there's not much purpose of spending all season being selective and then ruin it all on the last day. It will waste a years worth of patience as the following year you'll be back to stage one when it comes to buck size and healthiness of the deer herd
09-14-2008, 05:28 PM
#6
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Stanley, Wisconsin
Posts: 227
RE: Throw out deer management
I would rather eat my tag or use it on a doe then to shoot a buck that I would have passed earlier in the season. The neighbor next to the land I hunt won't even hunt the late archery season. He figures if the bucks made it through early archery and then the gun season then they deserve a free pass to the next year(if they stay on his land).
09-14-2008, 05:34 PM
#7
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199
RE: Throw out deer management
YUP, and the first, second, third etc etc etc. My year long project is to hear TWACK, see blood on the ground and smell onions and backstraps frying. Oh I have some no no's, but first and foremost I hunt to kill a deer once in a while. If I were to get to the last day of the season I really don't think whacking that basket rack 8 point is going to destroy harmony in the wild. If you don't have a large enough piece of property or you're hunting public land with no restrictions you're peeing in the wind if you think you as one will make a difference. I'll eat venison before I say "herd management" or "Management buck" or for that matter "Harvest". I have yet to harvest a deer. I've killed the hell out of a lot of them though. If I'm hunting someone elses land and they have rules or request in force I'll abide by them and all game laws.
09-14-2008, 05:44 PM
#9
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2008
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Posts: 2,434
RE: Throw out deer management
That doesnt make sence at a certain point. Say there is 2 deer that 1 is bigger by about 5 inches. You pass the smaller 1 on the first day in hopes of seeing the bigger 1 throughout the season. then on the last day you wouldnt shoot the smaller 1? If its brown its down, Im goinghunt for fun not horns.
09-14-2008, 05:45 PM
#10
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Jefferson County, Missouri
Posts: 7,684
RE: Throw out deer management
ORIGINAL: Bowtech 360
That doesnt make sence at a certain point. Say there is 2 deer that 1 is bigger by about 5 inches. You pass the smaller 1 on the first day in hopes of seeing the bigger 1 throughout the season. then on the last day you wouldnt shoot the smaller 1? If its brown its down, Im goinghunt for fun not horns.
That doesnt make sence at a certain point. Say there is 2 deer that 1 is bigger by about 5 inches. You pass the smaller 1 on the first day in hopes of seeing the bigger 1 throughout the season. then on the last day you wouldnt shoot the smaller 1? If its brown its down, Im goinghunt for fun not horns.
