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Old 12-01-2008 | 10:16 PM
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I was referring to this year,it should have fallen a week later imo and I think even the gun hunters would have liked it better.


They have started the using the second Saturday as the start date and this year,it was the 8th,I just feel that pressured the deer before the rut even kicked in good. I could be wrong though.[:-]
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Old 12-01-2008 | 10:19 PM
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I was referring to this year,it should have fallen a week later imo and I think even the gun hunters would have liked it better.


They have started the using the second Saturday as the start date and this year,it was the 8th,I just feel that pressured the deer before the rut even kicked in good. I could be wrong though.[:-]
ah, I gotcha.I see what you are sayin now, and agree. The rifles started barking half a week to a week before I saw what I thought to be the peak of action for my woods. I agree.
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Old 12-01-2008 | 11:27 PM
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Here in California, I think they do a decent job, faced with the fact the State of California is OUT of money again...and here we have all of the ANTI Everythings and Enviro wackos roaming around here...
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Old 12-02-2008 | 12:17 AM
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Ohio has done good and bad things. I believe the one buck per year rule is definitely a good thing. The one thing that has bothered me and the guy that started me out hunting is Ohio's new deer permits. Where I live in NW Ohio woods are small and counties are mainly composed of flat agricultural land where in southeastern Ohio you have smaller fields and larger wood lots. In NW Ohio deer numbers are much smaller than those that come out of the southern section of Zone A for Ohio. One problem is the push my auto insurance companies to lower populations so there are fewer accidents that they have to dish out money for. They incorporated counties with very low deer numbers with other counties that have large deer populations and also large interstates and highways with higher deer populations so when they counties with higher numbers have a lot of accidents then we get bumped up as well even though we still do not have the deer herds to go along with this. My neighbor who started me out and I have both brought our concerns to the DNR but nothing is yet to be done and i doubt anything every will. At the time we refuse to kill does on our property because we are seeing a decline in the amount of deer. There is still plenty of food resources for the deer and still enough cover just to deer killed each year. when there are not enough deer produced to replace those killed the year before there is a decline and that is what i have seen this year.
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Old 12-02-2008 | 01:46 AM
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Honestly, I hate to say it, but the Michigan DNR is bordering on negligence! A total ban on baiting--for hunting or recreational viewing--ofdeer in the lower part of the Stateafter ONE CAPTIVE deer tested positive for CWD is ridiculous. This decision was made rather hastily with little regard for businesses, which havesuffered immensely as a result of this ban. One local business alone estimated its lost $750,000 due to the ban. The banhas the potential to effectevery Michiganresident who possibly faces a rise in insurance premiums due to the potentialincrease in deer related auto accidents, all because of one farm raised deer.

Subsequently, over 1,000 deer have been tested, and not one deer in the wild herd has tested positive. Obviously, CWD is nothing to play around with, and measures need to be taken to protect Michigan’s deer herd; however, those measures should be based on sound scientific data and research, rather than impulses with little evidence to support them.
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Old 12-02-2008 | 04:56 AM
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Everyone,

I'd like to be the first to post from Indiana. While I think that overall our DNR is doing a good job, there are some changes I'd like to see to improve our BUCK hunting. First of all, they implemented a one buck per season rule a few years ago which I consider a positive. But I would like to see our firearms season cut back to one week, the week of thanksgiving. I know that won't sit well with most gun-hunters but really there is no reason we shouldn't be producing the class of animal that Illinois and Ohio are producing on a more consistant basis. IMO it is mainly because our firearms seasons are to long. This includes muzzleloading season. Between the two seasons, they are 32 days long. You take Wisconsin, which has nearly three times the deer we have, yet their rifle season is only nine days. I don't think the genetics are any better in Illinois, it's just that they have two, three day gun seasons that are split, and as far as I know, neither fall during the rut. But as I said in the beginning of my post, they, the DNR,are doing a good job. The things I mentioned are just what I'd like to see happen to improve things.

Blessings.....Pastorjim
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Old 12-02-2008 | 05:22 AM
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Eastern North Carolina: The DNR isa great bunch of guys but the dog hunters run all over them for lack of legislation. Thedog hunterstrample everyone's rights: landowners, other hunters and even motorists endangered by illegal use of roads. This issue overshadows all other herd/hunting aspects. Until we fix dog hunting, there is no point to attempting any other kind of herd management.
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Old 12-02-2008 | 07:36 AM
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In Virginia its hit or miss. Some areas are done really well and others are just a complete disaster. In northern virginia and a couple counties down south there getting it right with the Earn a Buck program to try and lower the population of does. In shenandoah county they put in antler resticitons which is something i would love to see state wide, except for youth hunters. And the dog hunting in the central and southern portion of the state has gotten out of control. There has been plenty of arguing on this site to show the lines have been drawn on that subject. I personally am all for limitations being imposed on dog hunters, there getting out of control and the state needs to impose some laws soon in order to keep them from tresspassing at free will like they do now. Bottom line if VA imposed antler restrictions and put some limitations on Dog hunters so they would stay on there own land for once, i strongly beleive VA has the potential to be a big buck state, we shoot big ones right now but i can only imagine what we could do.
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Old 12-02-2008 | 07:53 AM
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No.
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Old 12-02-2008 | 08:37 AM
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Deffenitly not doing there job In Minnesota!!![:@]
Boy, aint this the truth![:-]
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