DNR in your state
10-27-2005, 05:49 AM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Cenral Illinois
Posts: 3,180
RE: DNR in your state
To sum up the Michigan DNR in a word....absolutely horrendous...ok...maybe two words. I hunt in the UP but the DNR is headquartered in the downstate portion so we really get the shaft as far as regulations go. They are completely opposed to any kind of registration so they have absolutely no clue as to how many deer are actually being taken each year and the numbers they come out with are hilarious. There is no herd management to speak of as far as antler restriction and very little doe harvest so the buck/doe ratio is all out of whack. The conservation officers are only out in the woods to write tickets, not to help anyone out. There is always the assumption that you are doing something wrong if you are in the woods, and they are bound and determined to find it. One extra bluegill in your pocket is their chief concern, not promoting and encouraging people to get outdoors. Just a joke.
10-27-2005, 04:39 PM
#5
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: VA
Posts: 687
RE: DNR in your state
no, virginia dept game and inland fisheries needs to allow more taking of does. period, end of story. why oh why would you allow only bucks to be taken on one side of the mtns and not on the other in muzzleloader? do you know how many does I could kill in smokepole if I could?
10-27-2005, 05:19 PM
#6
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Godfrey, Il.
Posts: 814
RE: DNR in your state
Illinois took a huge turn for the worse this year (IMO) by going to a phone-in check system for all deer. Not really their fault as our Governor has cut alot of state jobs in all Departments.
10-27-2005, 06:45 PM
#7
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Illinois
Posts: 235
RE: DNR in your state
i think IL is doing a great job so far. asuming that they don't go to the 4pt restrictions like most states. in my opinion that is just stupid along with a gun season more than 10 days. having such a short gun season is the key to IL's good deer #'s along with the good ethical hunters. shooting good bucks and managing their herds.
11-01-2005, 11:19 AM
#10
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
Posts: 10,079
RE: DNR in your state
Alabama allows among the highest legal harvest numbers in the U.S. as you can take two deer per day over about a 100 day season. At least half of them have to be does, and our over population is still growing. Only major change I would like to see would be opening the season the same days as now and having the first 30 days as doe season and then tack on three or four weeks of buck and doe in February. Our rut is just getting good the end of January when the season goes out.