Ok but what about the areas that are heavily populated per acre.Like the area i hunt.Deer are over brousing.We shot 7 does this past season(2 bow hunters)and still need to have taken more.Which would mean to let others hunt our property.We put alot of hard work into food plots trimming trees for over growth not to mention money.We dont want to bring in outsiders after everything we put into our hunting grounds.And to keep the doe to buck ratio in check we need to take more does.How we going to do that when theres already an over balance.When they put a limit on deer harvests.If others want it and need it let it be county wide.Or sectors not state wide limit

Its not how big the deer,Its the size of the experiance that matters

JK-

You aint kidding about Temple Smith property. I use to live off of wadsworth rd and rent a house. But they sure wont let you hunt.
Now im hearing they are getting ready to build up over by hunt club and wadsworth rd. Did you also see that Lake County Forest preserve
got a bunch of land off of crawford rd north of milburn school.
SUCKS.

Peak
Live and Learn

Will Temple Smith consider allowing a special hunt to reduce numbers taking applications and interviewing hunters?

Carpetguy, I know you have invested and taken care of your property, have you considered allowing a few hunters to take some does only in late season? This way you could thin out the overabundance of does and still save the bucks for yourself.

I would also like to see a county by county check, but I imagine it would be expensive and hard to manage. I myself am in favor of the 4 deer per season limit. I know quite a few hunters who overtake their share just for the sake of killing and also fill some tags for others, who for lack of better words are just too darn lazy to get out and hunt. In my area it will be welcome news, because I see a hunting group every yr. come in and ravage an area. I am especially glad to see the unlimited doe in archery season gone! I am seeing many immature does now and very few mature does.

I understand where Bo Hunter is coming from, but in the area i hunt in southeastern Il. the poaching is so bad by the locals that it will really help down there. It's kind of funny down there because everyone knows who the poachers are but no one wants to do anything about it because everyone is related to everyone else. The Il. dnr should probably look at it on a county by county basis. Still i know a few people who kill deer just to say the did it.

I can't believe that nobody has mentioned the fact that only about 480 hunters statewide (out of how many hundred thousand?) legally took more than four deer last year. This is not about management, it's about the negative sociological factor of hunters killing for the fun of killing. In the DNR's eyes, this can be implemented without having a negative impact on their management philosophies, so there's no harm in doing it. For the guy who posted about two people killing seven deer, you can still do that, plus take one more. If your area is big enough that two bowhunters can affect the balance of the herd in a single season, then maybe it's big enough to support more than two hunters.

I think this is a good time to jump in for my first post here....

I understand that only 480 hunters tooke MORE than 4 deer last year, but the unlimited doe tags unfortunately causes many people to have a non-shalant attitude about wounding or killing deer. They figure "hey, I can just go buy more tags, so what the hell?" and start lobbing arrows/bullets at animals that are out of their effective range. I'm sure this results in a higher rate of lost and/or wounded animals. Besides, there is no reason that any one person should feel the need to harvest more than 4 deer in one season. This limit is a good thing in my opinion.