What has changed? Deer Population explosion
12-09-2010, 06:44 AM
#11
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 188
It was an extreme rareity to see deer in that area when I was a kid. Now, they are everywhere.
Same story can be told all over the east coast. I hear that on the eastern Shore of MD, in the 70-80's deer were almost wiped out. Now its the place to go. In fact, you can kill over 32 deer in MD. I know urban spraw is to be blamed in the urban sections, but what about the shore?
Could be less hunters? Better management? Better habitat?
Same story can be told all over the east coast. I hear that on the eastern Shore of MD, in the 70-80's deer were almost wiped out. Now its the place to go. In fact, you can kill over 32 deer in MD. I know urban spraw is to be blamed in the urban sections, but what about the shore?
Could be less hunters? Better management? Better habitat?
Fewer hunter today, less availible land to hunt on, plenty of feed on the neighborhood lawns & shrubs.
We have an 80% kill ratio in our hunting group for the last 6 years running, and that's on public state forest land.
12-09-2010, 07:14 AM
#12
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Great Mills, MD
Posts: 204
I've been hunting here in Southern Maryland for 6-years and you're right about the bag limit. I don't hunt bow season, but between Firearms and Muzzleloader seasons I can legally kill up to 24-deer. As far as Southern Maryland goes I've been told that in the early 50's there was no deer here in the Southern part of the state. I was told that in the mid to late 50's the deer were shipped down here from Pennsylvania to promote deer hunting. Ever since then the deer population has exploded.
12-09-2010, 07:23 PM
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: northern ky
Posts: 252
i like the comment on backyard bow hunting...lol
i was told that before ky had a modern gun season which as like pre 1956 or something the deer population was under 10000, now we have quite the herd going on. Has a lot to do with conservation and also the one bucki a year thing helps a lot i think.
i was told that before ky had a modern gun season which as like pre 1956 or something the deer population was under 10000, now we have quite the herd going on. Has a lot to do with conservation and also the one bucki a year thing helps a lot i think.
12-10-2010, 01:25 AM
#16
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Ne Pa.
Posts: 76
Here in Ne Pa, I have seen 1 deer in 10 days of hunting, Our game commision has ruined the hunting with a 2 week buck and doe season together. It does not even pay to take a youth hunting as you see nothing. We cannot kill all the females and have derr too.
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