How many different seasons does your state have?
 

Here in Missouri we have bow season, rifle season where weget 1 any deer tag but in certain counties there is a 4 point minimum, and then of course we have muzzle loader season and finally in December we have the antlerless season which allows us to kill does. Thisis for herd management.My son in law calls it doe fest.
So in essence I guess we have 4 different seasons.
How many does your state have?

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Hey spudrow-

Don't forget the anterless-only tags that we can purchase for archery, firearms and muzzleloading seasons in the majority of the counties, with many of the counties allowing as many as you want.

I don't know about you, but during firearms season, where I hunted (mid central MO), the wind blew to beat the band, and we saw a lot fewer deer than usual. I just got two does and my partner didn't get anything. We only saw two bucks the whole time, one that wasn't a shooter and the other that we couldn't get a shot at. I have heard that the firearms season was a big disappointment for the Conservation Dept. because of low number of deer harvested. I haven't heard any official numbers yet, though.

Of course, as luck would have it, on the second Saturday, as we were on our way to Ames, Iowa for the Mizzou football game (grumble, grumble), we saw all kinds of deer once we crossed the state line, big ones, little ones, big groups, small groups.

Well, anyway, I'll have to try a fill my any-deer tag during muzzleloader season. Good luck to you.

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Actually we had a record number of deer killed this fire arm season, 275,000 plus I think.
I figured Mizzou would handle Iowa so I deer hunted. We saw plenty of deer and I was very choosy. I ended up with a button buck and a doe. I can't wait until doefest. Good luck to you.
Do you hunt anywhere near Macon?

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Pa. has a regular 6 week archery season,which has a muzzleloader doe season in there for a week,a 2 week rifle season-buck or doe(if you have doe tags),a 2 week late archery/flintlock season,and a bear archery-onlyseason and a regular bear season.Plus spring and fall turkey and small game seasons

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We've been hunting near Marshall, just north of I-70 and west of US 65 highways for 8 years now, on private property. Corn, winter wheat, and soybean farms with lots of drainage ditches. Had good luck till this year with several 8 pointers and a couple of 10 pointers killed, along with a lot of does.

We used to hunt in southern MO, closer to home, in the Mark Twain National Forest. When we started hunting the northern farmland, it was like learning how to hunt all over, learning new tactics for the different terrain. Up north, the deer are seemingly more plentiful, and certainly bigger, but sometimes I miss hunting the forest land. But, we always have a good time, it's great just to be out hunting no matter where we are.

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You forgot about the Urban season. It's only in a few select counties, but it usually runs in Oct. It's basically an early doe only season, just like the one in Dec. It's called Urban, because the counties that are targeted have a high population/city present, and they want to control the deer because of this. It's confusing, but it has nothing to do with hunting in city limits. It's what I was told from a Conservation agent.

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Us here in Manitoba we have for archery , muzzleloader and rifle season one deer for each. Then we can get a second tag for antlerless deer for anyone of the ones I mentioned. We also have a separate season for shotgun/muzzleloader in a certain area that allows for another antlerless deer and we can get one more antlerless deer for 3 more other areas that has been overpopulated with deer. So in all we can have up to 6 tags for deer hunting...

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here in Florida we have archery, muzzle load and general gun (rifle). you are allowed to take 1 buck (buck being a deer with atleast 5 inches of antler on one side) a day, every day.

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Michigan has..

Youth 3rd sat and sun of September

Bow october 1-nov14 then dec 18-jan 1

Gun nov 15- Nov 30

Muzzleloader Dec 1- 17 (changes by year and by xone this is just my zone)

these are just the general season there are early firearms late firearms antlerless only disabled hunters only etc etc.

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In the counties that I hunt we have deer season aug.15th till jan.1 period.We have 17 doe days with 2 does per day ,you can buy 4 doe tags and we have no limit on bucks . And I forgot you can shoot any weapon.:D:D

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Well i know here in Alberta we have two seperate seasons one for bow and one for rifle. Now in certain areas of the province the seasons start and end at different times. That also includes the the animal seasons that fall under those two seasons. Some areas you do get supplemental tags for does for management issues. Then some animals are draw and some animals in some areas are general which means you can shot one of either sex and in some areas as well there are point restrictions mostly for elk, some areas they are 3 points on one antler or better and sometimes its 6 points or better on one antler.

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Chjickenjohb, where do you hunt? What state.

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Spud he hunts South Carolina. Yea I know I am a little envious also.

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Yep hunt in SOUTH CAROLINA .They want to limit the no . of bucks we take ,but it don't bother me I don't eat the horns lol.I am a doe killa .

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Ontario is really big, so theres lots of different things going on depending on where you are. Where I hunt its:

Archery only season
General season (anything goes) - 2 weeks
Muzzle loader - 1 week
Archery again

Some areas with heavy travelled highways and tourist areas don't have a rifle season, they have a controlled hunt instead, its shotgun only and you have to get drawn in a lottery to participate (no dogs). I've never participated but think I may apply for next year, with the bucks I've seen out of bow range this year it may be worth it.

I don't think we have the youth seasons that I keep hearing you americans talking about.

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Here in New Brunswick we have 2 seasons for deer. First 3 weeks of Oct is archery season and the 4th monday of Oct is the opening of rifle season which runs for 4 weeks (no hunting on Sundays). During this 7 week stretch we are allowed 1 deer and you must apply in the anterless deer draw to be able to shoot a doe/anterless deer.

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Minnesota has bow season from second weekend of September through December 31st.
Rifle season starts the first weekend of November and can be one weekend, two consecutive weekends, 9 days or 16 days long depending on zone and sometimes unit.
Muzzleloader season starts the weekend after Thanksgiving and goes for 16 days.
There is an early doe season weekend for select units in October and one or two youth hunts as well.

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NC
Sept 11th - Nov11th=Bow
Nov 11th - Nov 18th=BLack powder
Nov 18th- Dec16th=General (Gun Season)

In my county that is. Some season's in NC go from Sept. 11th to Jan 2nd.
In my county I get to take 2 bucks and 4 does at anytime.

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Here in Georgia you can deer hunt for about 4 months of the year, startingSeptember 9th. The first 5 weeks is bow only, though the last week of bow season you can muzzle load as well. AfterOctober 21you can rifle hunt throughJanuary 15th. .
You can shoot 2 bucks and 10 does, though there are no tags and your harvest is not monitored.

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No tags?

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That's right. They eliminated tags 3-4 years ago. Not enough deer are being killed anyway so I think it's their way of looking the other way and letting hunters do what they want, especially on does.