Whats wrong with taking a legal Buck the last day of the hunt??>LAST EDITED ON Nov-21-18
>AT 09:10?AM (MST)
>
> My son and I each
>had a fourth season tag
>for this unit this year.
>We were three days before
>the season opened doing some
>scouting and learning new areas.
>One of the biggest bucks
>we seen my son was
>able to take. A 26"
>3x3 heavy with long tines.
>Needless to say I was
>not impressed with what we
>seen the whole time we
>were there. I shot a
>4 point the last morning
>of the hunt. Of course
>the people without tags said
>the seen some big ones,
>but they couldn't tell you
>where??
> Would I hunt there again?
>Absolutely YES!!! I had a
>great time with my son
>and friend, seen some great
>country, but I guess I
>built up the area too
>much in my mind and
>was let down with what
>we had seen.
> I guess you can blame
>the weather, the lack of
>rain in the summer, fires,
>or whatever, but the fact
>is there were deer everywhere,
>just nothing that in my
>opinion that was worth the
>points I used. That being
>said my son had the
>time of his life.
And that right there is the problem. Tons of hunters do the same thing. They don't find the buck they are looking for so they shoot an ok buck towards the end of the hunt. That ok buck could grow up to be the buck you are looking for but it never got the chance.
Yep….>LAST EDITED ON Nov-21-18
>AT 09:10?AM (MST)
>
> My son and I each
>had a fourth season tag
>for this unit this year.
>We were three days before
>the season opened doing some
>scouting and learning new areas.
>One of the biggest bucks
>we seen my son was
>able to take. A 26"
>3x3 heavy with long tines.
>Needless to say I was
>not impressed with what we
>seen the whole time we
>were there. I shot a
>4 point the last morning
>of the hunt. Of course
>the people without tags said
>the seen some big ones,
>but they couldn't tell you
>where??
> Would I hunt there again?
>Absolutely YES!!! I had a
>great time with my son
>and friend, seen some great
>country, but I guess I
>built up the area too
>much in my mind and
>was let down with what
>we had seen.
> I guess you can blame
>the weather, the lack of
>rain in the summer, fires,
>or whatever, but the fact
>is there were deer everywhere,
>just nothing that in my
>opinion that was worth the
>points I used. That being
>said my son had the
>time of his life.
And that right there is the problem. Tons of hunters do the same thing. They don't find the buck they are looking for so they shoot an ok buck towards the end of the hunt. That ok buck could grow up to be the buck you are looking for but it never got the chance.
The problem with “Cutting tags” is that us, the consumer/hunter, have little to no say over this. Game departments are always trying to maximize opportunity with very little concern over age class, outside of a few areas.LAST EDITED ON Nov-27-18 AT 07:18AM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON Nov-27-18 AT 07:17?AM (MST)
Squirrel,
The poster you are blasting for shooting "mediocre" bucks isn't even the original poster who called the unit horrible, he was just trying to answer the question. Not sure if a 26" 3X3 is mediocre? You just want to blast people for shooting inferior bucks to your standards.
The problem is they give out too many tags to grow big bucks consistently, it is not the fact that people shoot mediocre bucks.
If hunters want bigger bucks, they have to cut tags, the solution is not to hold hunters to your standards on what they shoot.
In my ’hood, hunters and cars kill far more bucks than predators.Where I hunt deer if you don’t eat the legal ones the coyotes and mountain lions will.
The doe tags increased this year and I’m still scratching my head. I’ve been asked by 3 people to shoot one from my porch already and the draw hasn’t even happened yet.You may be right. We don’t hunt does here, not yet anyways. No doubt hunters play a big part in reduction, along with cars, drought and predators. We have a huge predator problem here and of all the aforementioned that reduce deer population I can help control just one, and that’s predation. I do my part every chance I get.
Agree. Some hunt for their egos and some hunt for the food. To each their own. I don’t begrudge anybody for taking a legal animal.The other issue is a lot of NR want to bring something home to show for all the dollars and time spent on an out of state hunt. Plus they usually only draw the area once every few years or jump spots. Therefore leaving small deer does them no benefit in the short term.
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