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Do you think in a few years if the deer population is reduced to where it should be eventually the early bow season will go back to how it used to be...no muzzleloader or rifle seasons stuck into the middle or do you think that's going to be permanent? Boy I hope it goes back in a few years.

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I think you summed up my feelings as well.

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I'm with ya fellas!

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From what I understand, it is only a temporary two or three year thing, after that, it will be back to normal, HOPEFULLY.

Good Luck This Season: Buck Magnet
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I personally doubt that it will ever go away. The kill has been insignificant so it's not really that big of a management tool. When has a season ever been taken away when the kill isn't hurting the resource?
Besides, the pressure has been light so why not let the ML guys and the kids and the seniors have a little extra time afield during the nice weather. We can share a little of that time, can't we? <img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle>

Now an October general rifle doe season, thats another story! While I support the idea of a doe kill before the rut, I surely hope we can find another way!

Edited by - btbowhunter on 03/06/2002 14:38:20

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I don't think it would be so bad with the muzzleloader hunters out there at the sametime we are but most of the muzzleloader guys I saw out there were in small groups putting on deer drives and others wander hunt through the woods waiting for a deer to jump up without regard to the scent they leave behind or the wind. That ends up screwing the deer's natural movements up and makes bowhunting tough. It'd be different if most would scout deer sign and set up on it as we do, again this was what I saw in the area I hunt.

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Same thing as NateBook said happened here. Not in my patch of woods, but everywhere around it. Muzzleloader hunters were out tramping around, the junior and senior rifle hunters were out doing drives and shooting at any brown they saw. Hopefully it won't be like this again.

Good Luck This Season: Buck Magnet
&quot;Hunting is not a sport, it is a passion, it is a WAY OF LIFE&quot;

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You can't help but get frustrated. I don't know about you but my good areas I treat like a baby, very gently. I certainly don't go tramping through my hunting area anytime close to season unless I am doing some in season scouting with rubber boots and even then I'm real careful where I go. So you've put all this work into an area and then an hour before dark one night a guy carrying a muzzleloader come wandering by smoking a cigarette on his way back to his truck. Now your probably back to ground zero and have to start over again ecspecially if there are a couple of people educating the deer.

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