Throw out deer management
#3

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
#6

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).
#7
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199

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.
#9
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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.
#10
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Jefferson County, Missouri
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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.
