Would you support a doe only season...
 

Would you support a doe only season in your state for one year to help balance the buck to doe ratio and increase the age structure of the buck pouplation?

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I would definately support a doe only season. I think it would be hard to convience some of the "old timers" in my state to agree. I just saw, not to long ago posted property and the posters said no doe hunting. I geuss they are just uneducated.

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Definately.

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I would as long as there is science behind it and the population can support it. In some parts of my state it wouldn't be a problem but in other areas there are only 6-7 deer per square mile. A doe only season in these parts could have a terrible effect on the population.

Bottom line, if the buck/doe ration is out of wack and the population can sustain a doe only season then let the does fall where they may.

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I'd favor a very limited buck tag drawing first before a whoesale doe only season for an entire year.

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We used to have doe only here in Pa but they combined it with the two week buck season so that more doe got taken which also tried to reduce the buck harvest at the same time. Personally, I like the season as it stands now because I have a better chance at harvesting a deer when I head out hunting.

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I absolutely would for a couple of years

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I would if my state wasn't ready killing to many does now. For those of you who say yes, do you now shoot does on your own? I for one do.

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I once belonged to a club who's doe population had gotten way out of whack. For 3 years all that you could kill were spikes and does. When we opened buck hunting back up, there were some MONSTER bucks killed the following few years.

The doe only season is tough, b/c some areas could really use it and others don't need it. I've hunted areas within this state that have buck to doe ratios of close to even, then other places have 10 does to each buck. I guess it would be up the biologists and individual land owners to limit the amount of does shot on any individual parcel of land.

I might would support it, but with strict rules and regulations and lots of guidance from the game departments and biologists.

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I do shoot does. As a matter of fact all I shot this year was does (6). I passed up SEVERAL small bucks that were legal but for me personally there is no sense killing a small buck. I can just kill does for meat and hopefully the small buck will be bigger next year. He might still get killed anyway but at least I have done my part to help him get there.

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Maybe if it was only like the first two weeks prior to regular season. We've got the good bucks but we need to adjust the doe to buck ratio.

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I certainly would as long as it was very well managed and opened up in the correct areas. Like a few have said, there are many areas that don't need extra doe taken out, but many areas that could support such a hunt.

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I can see what you are saying and somewhat agree but........ In this hypothetical situation I am not talking about giving extra doe tags to an area or state, just eliminating the buck harvest for a year.

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I think a doe only season or two would be fine with me. Where I live in Missouri there are very few bucks compared to the amount of does. But I am sure in other parts of the state it is near even. I guess you would have to trust you conservation departments choice on what areas should have this way of hunting and other areas have a different type of season. Like I said about the area whree I live it is way out of wack but we only have large population of deer in places and and a few in others not alot of woods but a lot of farm ground and we have very little state woods so it would be very hard to do this. But so many people say leave the does alone so we can get more deer but they will shot that spike just because he is a buck and I get alot of flack from people for killing does but if it is all you are seeing that should tell you something. But I too would have to change my way of hunting I use the saying if it's brown it's down and yes I have taken small bucks but as I have gotten older and a more mature hunter I have passed on alot of small buck but if a doe walks by well it game on. Just my two cents

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Statewide....? Absolutely not. That would be a knee jerk reaction. In my area (middle of the Lake Superior snow belt) the winter kill and wolf predation takes care of the herd just fine. Not a whole lot of deer, but a good buck to doe ratio. Other parts of the state...yep! A doe only season would be appropriate.

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I would definetly support a doe only season. Here in Wisconsin I see so many hunters shoot small spikes, forks, six's and let the does that were with them go untouched. That makes no sence to me at all. If you want the meat that bad shoot the does. What an awsome trophy state we would have after only one year of this, not to mention getting the buck to doe ratio back in order. ;)

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I wouldn't. I don't agree with antler harvest regulations (put in place by states), so I'm not going to bite on this one. On your property that is great, manage however you want to manage (mainly for monsters), but everyone has different goals. I had 2 small bucks killed on my property this year. A 6 pointer and a basket 8 pointer. They were not monsters, but they were monsters in those kids eyes. I don't think a doe would put the same feeling in those kids. Both are going hunting with me again this year. Had they shot does, i don't know if they would be hunting this year. I wouldn't shoot small bucks, and I think most people that have killed a deer before shouldn't (This excludeds kids, elderly, and disabled IMO). How would a kid feel if the first time in the woods to hunt a buck comes along, and you say can't shoot that one, it's against the law?

Very interesting post Buckeye. I think statewide no on private property yes.

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Its what we need in Florida , Excellent idea. Being allowed to kill a buck a day , every day of season is just ridiculous . Our regs are a joke .

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I'm right there with silentassassin on this one. (Except the 6 doe part you dirty so-and-so!)I took a pair and passed on a six and a four. Someone else might have taken those 2, but if I shoot them they are definetly dead and that someone might take another immature buck.

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YES!!! My uncle knows he can't MAKE people take a doe before a buck, but I believe he tells everyone who asks to hunt his land to take at least one or two does regardless of it they get a buck.

Like others have said...when season begins I take the first good piece of meat that walks my way....in fact, if I have a preference I'll take 130# doe over a 140# buck (provided he's not 10# of antlers :D)

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[quote]ORIGINAL: Soilarch

ya if the population can support it and the area need it then yes i would suport it

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A year! HELL NO!!!!!

Not needed in IL.

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Anoha, no way Jose, All I saw was bucks ,and I hunt in an Earn a buck zone.

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No ,
it's nothing more than "trophy management" , something I'll never support . If you want less does then shoot more does .

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I don't blame you one bit. It would really suck to have a bunch of trophies running around:eek:

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I figured IL would benefit greatly from a reduced buck harvest for a year. I believe any state with a buck limit of greater than one buck would have tremendous results.

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NO only one doe on my huntin property after the slaughter this past year. TO General of a question

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i sure would. as long as fawns werent allowed and u couldnt get more than 2 depending on were u live

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I would if it was deemed necessary due to the buck/doe ratio being badly out of whack. But at this time, at least in my area I see no need for it. I wouldn't mind a 1 buck limit for all seasons though.:)

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[quote]ORIGINAL: jerseyhunter

lol that blows thats why there was so many bucks all the does were dead lol

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Absolutely. If that is what is needed to not only balance the herd, and make for more, bigger bucks, and also to have a healthier herd that is not plagued by diseases, you bet I would. One year of not shooting a buck is worth the investment of a continuing herd.

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Yes, it would be a blessing in parts of my state.

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buckeyebuckhntr YES
I use Ohio's urban tags to fill the freezer early.
Then I do some rack hunting.
I would preferr to see the Earn a buck idea go into efect first.

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The state I hunt is so over run with deer it doesn't matter. They went to unlimited on Does. I plan next year on one hunt dropping 6 deer with my 6 arrows in my quiver.

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I would indeed suppot a Doe only season...... heck this past season was just that!!! ;):D All kidding aside, I take several Does every year and have NO interest in shooting a buck unless he is a true trophy class animal anyway. WOW..... just imagine if ALL those yearling bucks could just get past that first season. Even in a quality state like IL, we still have 75% of our buck harvest ending up as yearlings! :( I couldn't imagine the increase in overall sex ratios...... it would be awesome! :)

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As far as the state of PA, my answer would be a resounding NO. If your state is out of balance, certainly. I've lived here and seen the change in the deer population, which contrary to what the PGC will say, is far less than when I was a child. You can still succeed here and I don't mind the challenge, but we cannot support a mass harvest of doe deer in this state.

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Yep! Pretty much did that last year. My area was EAB and I harvested three doe myself (no bucks) to try and insure that this year wouldn't be EAB. Guess what , this year my area is EAB again.[:@]

Nope! Has no scientific proof of helping the health of the herd!
I would agree to doe only season only to balance the sex ratio.

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Wow!!!

I don't know what the ideal is, but the immediate area where I hunt in southern illinois has AT LEAST 10 does to every buck. I had no idea that other areas were so different.

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Well the powers that be haven't consulted me in the past, I doubt they would on this one, but if they did I would say no, I do not support it. More trophy bucks running around makes them cheaper to everyone except the people selling them like the state. I maybe mistaken but wasn't there a post awhile back about Ill. wanting to charge $450. for a out of state tag. Don't you guys ever pay attention to what has gone on around you. Any thing like this would have the same effect that has caused baseball to become what it has. You tell me, How many kids can afford to go down and watch their favorite team play when their in town just once? Support yet another law? More further loss of freedom so it can cost me and my kids more? You want more trophy bucks go find them they are out there now. If you can't that's your problem. Keep your freedom grabbing hands off me and mine.

The income tax is only around 100 years old. When it was past with much debate one man stood up and said something like If you pass this I guarantee that one day it will be 10%. At that time it was 1%. You guys want to protect bow hunting? Start protecting freedom of any kind.

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in my western section of north carolina i would support a 2 year total ban on deer hunting. short of that i would support a ban on anything with less that 4 pts per side (which would just about accomplish the same thing), and a 2 yr ban on does. if we did that i may not have to move, but as it stands, when i have my teaching certificate, i'm outta here. i love everything here, except the deer hunting. now, i'm 37 yo and am back in school because of a on the job injury, and while things are getting a little better over the past 5 yrs, a 2 yr ban would really put this area right. the genes are here, i've seen it, but not much gets darn chance, and the numbers are low. we're talking .5 antlered bucks per sq. mile or less on average.