Recent content by southernutahhunter

Shut down a couple units for 3 years and see if deer her grows with zero hunting. Limit the days of all the hunts on a couple units. See if that grows the herd after 3 years. Increase the number of Buck tags on a couple units for 3 years, see if reducing bucks grows the deer herd. Step up...

Sorry I meant quantity

If deer herds increase in quality then buck numbers also grow. Like was said about Colorado. Anything wrong with this?

I think that is the point of his frustration. Nothing has been done other than cut tags and a crap load of studies in the early stages.

The whole problem starts with deer numbers. You, I and every sportsmen who gets out at all knows the deer numbers are in the tank. The deer situation needs to be looked at from the standpoint of having no deer, not 20 bucks per hundred doe.

The bottom line is there are so few deer that we should be hoping for as many deer as we can, bucks or doe. I want to know anyone who went out this past winter and saw the number of bucks to doe as is said on these southern units. I must look for wintering deer in all the wrong places. Not...

But it was said that born even one week later in June can effect how a fawn goes into winter. I have seen numerous herds of doe in late November with no buck in with them.

I totally agree with Nevada sheep. All this data is good but we don’t have deer numbers wise to even think about lowering the buck population. In fact it was mentioned that maybe having more bucks would help breed doe earlier and then fawns would be born earlier giving them a better chance of...

I cover most all of the Beaver unit with several other sportsmen that hunt that unit. There just is not enough deer to justify any tag increase. They may be guessing a good fawn crop but a post deer hunt count of 20.4 bucks per 100 doe is just a terrible estimate. I have been in all those...

The Beaver and west Desert only units the chart shows that are below objective on the 3 year average yet want to increase by 600 tags.

It is not at the top end. 17.5 is still below the bottom end on the 3 year average.

The Boulder shows a 25/100 3 year average and 800 tag increase while the beaver shows 17.5/100 3 year average and gets a 600 tag increase. Beaver unit does not even make the 18-20 buck to doe average. Explain that one?

None of the hunters in the southern units who have been out and looked at the deer numbers would agree that the deer numbers are increasing

Down 100k deer but must be up in bucks. That seems a little weird. The buck fawns survive and the lady fawns must be the ones dying off. Too many bucks and not enough for. This go kill the bucks so that ratio matches up better.

But on the other hand units that did not get pounded by winter but have low deer numbers (southern) units received large increases.