LAST EDITED ON Jan-10-12 AT 07:01PM (MST)[p]If you close hunting down completely for 1, 2, 3, years, you've lost many hunter's interest, you've lost young hunters, and you've just found yourself with a huge fight with the anti's when you want to re-open the hunt. Remember how many wolves we were promised if only they could re-introduce just a certain number? Now we're way over that number and you all know the fight it took just to start managing again. It would be the same with deer. They will take the numbers that we all said we used to have in the "good ole days" and will fight to keep the hunts closed until the herds get back to that "good ole days" number again. We better be very careful what we ask for, because the anti's will take every opportunity to stop hunting.
Just a thought on killing some does. It's important to kill a few does as long as there is a decent fawn crop to replace them. (That's where predator control comes in) If we don't kill some of the older nonproductive does, they will just take up space a young productive doe could have, thus we end up with an old stagnant herd that cannot increase. That's the problem we have with the elk in wolf country. The calves are killed and the cows are getting too old to produce a new calf. That makes it tough to increase the herd. So the idea of not killing any does is not always the best solution to keep a herd healthy.
