I saw in the paper this weekend that they have set the new bag limits for the next season. 2 Bucks, 1 doe. 3 pnt.rule applies. I guess ya' ll are slaughtering to many slick heads. Shame on you, on me too.[:' (]

About damn time ...

I like the new rule. I really beleive we' ve been takin too many does.
4 doe per person was rediculos.

but, I thought they were goin to cut the bag limit down to 3 deer. a buck
and 2 doe, or 2 buck and a doe.

I am not even going to get fired up about this. my hunting club has to many does and we are to blame for not taking more. oh well i guess i' ll get used to seeing a hundred plus does a day instead of fifty!

I will say some parts of the state need this while others didnt.
i am also not happy with the new season dates. they kept the southern parts open for a long season and broke other parts up. this means i' ll running off folks from my areas trying to find state land!

Game& Fish is so stupid......Why do they pay for a boilogist(sp?) that they dont use????? When all it takes is a couple of phone calls from the guys that just step out of the truck and cant find deer.....The state doesnt even have a clue of how many deer in a given county let alone the whole state....Just when we were seeing some results now they screwed that up.....Guess I will go from 20 doe' s a day to 60 now......Thanks Game & Fish you sure got your head in QDM...

I agree there are some parts that still need to kill more doe, but most of our club members took advantage of the 4 doe per person rule. we need to slack up a bit on the doe kills.

We have just a little over 500 acres...Three people we killed three deer ...They were all doe' s....Didnt shoot any buck' s...Why because they were not any meeting the 3 point rule....We could have shoot more doe' s but we all had meat in the freezer...Now G&F say' s we killed to many....Thats crazy....So now we go back to hammering buck' s...We still have a doe problem..To many of them...We you can drive around at night and shine your headlights in the feilds and see has many has we do compared to bucks then you would know what a joke this is...

hawgs i agree with you as you probably all ready know. it doesnt really mean that much change for me i can still put six in the freezer between me and my son. thats what i put in last year . i only took two he took four . and two of them were legal bucks. ( he' s only 12)
what it might do IMO is either make the harvest far less than years past or cause folks to not report kills.
with the three point rule it means not just any buck is legal so either folks pass or kill and not report.
some folks may kill a doe and not see a legal deer all season. and then on the last days take another doe . no reporting.
who knows?

I think in a few years arkansas will be increasing harvest limits to five or six to try and control the population explosion they caused. think 1 deer can be 3 in a year!
doesnt take long to get way out of control.
lets say hunters go to the woods this year and don' t get a chance to take a deer. how many will be lost the next year to golf?
and the next?

I don' t know i just think it will interesting to see how this all pans out.

Iagree soarkrebel.....Why dont G&F just let the guy' s that get paid make the rules...Not the high dollar guys that only hunt a week or two out of the year....It is going to be harder(BTW till your son great job) to get younger hunter' s interested in hunting....No son you have to let her walk..No son that one' s not BIG enough ( or daughter. ) Getting crazy here in AR...Think I will start giving my money to another state....[:@]