Clarification please.
09-27-2005, 07:16 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Almost Heaven,WV
Posts: 4,087
RE: Clarification please.
I read all this stuff about QDM and it all sounds good as long as you have control of enough land to make it work and all hunters work together for it but I don't know of any places like that here in WV. I enjoy deer hunting and it's my goal to put 5 or 6 deer in the freezer every year. I hunt with a bow, a high powered rifle and an inline muzzleloader and I enjoy them all. I took 2 does and a racked buck with my bow, a racked buck with my 270 and another racked buck with my muzzleloader........all legal here in WV. I also passed up on 2 smaller bucks which would have been legal to take. Although I'm proud of the bucks I got, there not as big as a lot of the bucks I see pics of on here. The biggest of the 3 might score 110. I hunt an area of about 150 acres along with 3 or 4 other guys and I have no control of what they take nor do I care and they feel the same way. We do make a concentrated effort not to shoot button bucks. All this being said, I say to each his own as long as it's legal. Life's too short to get hung up on antler size. Just hunt and take what you can use and no more. By the way, I usually take more does than bucks. WV has put in a 3 buck limit for the 2005 season and I think this will help.
09-27-2005, 09:51 PM
#12
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 1997
Location: Cheasapeke and Delaware Bay Region
Posts: 10,485
RE: Clarification please.
Looks like this thread went to the Deer Hunting forum and not the bowhunting forum as requested[&:]. It should be over there as that is where the 14 pager is. BTW Ken, I have stayed away from thatother thread but will say here I totally agree with you on your thoughts.
09-27-2005, 10:11 PM
#13
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Saskatchewan Canada
Posts: 6,921
RE: Clarification please.
But for Gods sake let people enjoy hunting for their own reasons. If a basket rack 6 pointer brings you joy then shoot it and congrats to you. If nothing short of a 150" deer does it for ya.... so be it good luck to you too. If a tender doe and meat in the freezer is what you're out there for then that's great too. If just sitting in a tree taking in nature is what you're after....... that's wonderful. Too each their own and everyone enjoy hunting for whatever your personal reasons may be.
09-27-2005, 11:07 PM
#14
Boone & Crockett
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RE: Clarification please.
Looks like this thread went to the Deer Hunting forum and not the bowhunting forum as requested[&:]. It should be over there as that is where the 14 pager is.
09-28-2005, 07:46 AM
#15
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 19,137
RE: Clarification please.
Same problems where I hunt. I also got really tired of phone calls like this. "hey Charlie you hear about that big ten point that got hit by the car,last night?" I have this happen about four times in the last ten years,with deer I had scouted hung stands for etc.
Let'emgo so the can get killed by a car.
Let'emgo so the can get killed by a car.
09-28-2005, 09:29 AM
#16
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 10
RE: Clarification please.
We have manage our 2500 acre farm for about 8 years now and have started seeing a major difference in the deer population. We do not have rack restrictions per say, just specifications on what goes and what stays when given a chance to harvest.
09-28-2005, 10:41 AM
#17
Join Date: May 2005
Location: georgia
Posts: 3,297
RE: Clarification please.
ORIGINAL: muley69
Antler restriction simply allow for more trophy class animals and stabilize the male/female ratio here in Montana. One of the faulty assumptions people tend to make is that the animals with the biggest racks do the breeding. In the natural world, the breeders are the toughest and most agressive animals wether or not they have a large rack. I have seen herd bulls that are smaller then the satelite bulls, for whatever reason the satelite couldn't wrestle the herd from the smaller bull. Generally speaking the larger animals due the majority of the breeding because the heiarchy is determined to an extent by what the animals see in head gear from their opposition. A spike bull won't bump with a 6x6 for a herd at as matter of prudence, however, you may find a brush bull or two that is herd master although they seem to be cheating nature. Antler restrictions allow smaller animals to become more mature. As far as QDM I feel it is a personal decesion, nobody should say what animals somebody should shoot. Hunting is very personal, and I'm not prepared to criticize some 15 year old kid over what he shot. The hunting community has many different ways to divide itself and find things to argue about, what people decide to take shouldn't be one of them.
Antler restriction simply allow for more trophy class animals and stabilize the male/female ratio here in Montana. One of the faulty assumptions people tend to make is that the animals with the biggest racks do the breeding. In the natural world, the breeders are the toughest and most agressive animals wether or not they have a large rack. I have seen herd bulls that are smaller then the satelite bulls, for whatever reason the satelite couldn't wrestle the herd from the smaller bull. Generally speaking the larger animals due the majority of the breeding because the heiarchy is determined to an extent by what the animals see in head gear from their opposition. A spike bull won't bump with a 6x6 for a herd at as matter of prudence, however, you may find a brush bull or two that is herd master although they seem to be cheating nature. Antler restrictions allow smaller animals to become more mature. As far as QDM I feel it is a personal decesion, nobody should say what animals somebody should shoot. Hunting is very personal, and I'm not prepared to criticize some 15 year old kid over what he shot. The hunting community has many different ways to divide itself and find things to argue about, what people decide to take shouldn't be one of them.
09-28-2005, 12:49 PM
#18
Join Date: Aug 2005
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RE: Clarification please.
Deer management only really works when everyone is doing it, and then it usually only takes two or three years to really see good results. When the hunters in the surrounding areas are not practicing management harvesting techniques you arefighting an uphill battle.
09-29-2005, 08:29 AM
#19
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: VA
Posts: 1,921
RE: Clarification please.
ORIGINAL: TomFromTheShade
Deer management only really works when everyone is doing it, and then it usually only takes two or three years to really see good results. When the hunters in the surrounding areas are not practicing management harvesting techniques you arefighting an uphill battle.
Deer management only really works when everyone is doing it, and then it usually only takes two or three years to really see good results. When the hunters in the surrounding areas are not practicing management harvesting techniques you arefighting an uphill battle.
