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Post by terrifictom on Nov 27, 2019 8:32:04 GMT -6
There are lots of reasons most the DNR have stated. Post rut, warm weather, mid 40's to mid 50's. With the wet fall all kinds of standing crops. I know I have more deer by me this year than last year as both my food plots are decimated and I saw plenty of deer. I have saw at least 1 buck sometimes multiple bucks in every sit but 3. The very 1st sit I had 39 deer in plot at closing time. The license sales for gun season were down by 1.2 percent which equates to around 50,000 hunters also. I saw no place that our DNR said that there was near record deer populations. It isn't going to happen with the Way our system is set up with County Deer Advisory Councils. It just has been a weird deer season about sums it up for me. This is a severe management problem for game managers. Guys with good deer have high expectations and they let the problems (does) walk right by each time on stand, waiting for the likely chance a big buck will show up. Drive down deer numbers and expectations, and those deer would be getting shot one by one as they show themselves. That standing corn is also a management problem. Wildlife protected and well fed run counter to state goals. SD I may be not under standing your statement here but 1st off deer season isn't even close to being done here in Wisconsin or better by me. There will be does shot before it is all over. This is by choice and plan. Having lots of does is not a problem. They are what create your future bucks and also attract bucks during the rut. I would rather have lots of deer than no or few deer. Also the 68 turkeys that have been hammering my plots is a big problem when I can not even get a tag every year. In closing I have saw in person 14 different 1 and 2 year old bucks this hunting seasons. The future looks great.
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Post by batman on Nov 27, 2019 9:04:41 GMT -6
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Post by biglakebass on Nov 27, 2019 9:09:50 GMT -6
And the harvest is down 27%?
Oh boy, thats gonna be fireworks in the DNR planning rooms.
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Post by Sandbur on Nov 27, 2019 9:29:50 GMT -6
This is a severe management problem for game managers. Guys with good deer have high expectations and they let the problems (does) walk right by each time on stand, waiting for the likely chance a big buck will show up. Drive down deer numbers and expectations, and those deer would be getting shot one by one as they show themselves. That standing corn is also a management problem. Wildlife protected and well fed run counter to state goals. SD I may be not under standing your statement here but 1st off deer season isn't even close to being done here in Wisconsin or better by me. There will be does shot before it is all over. This is by choice and plan. Having lots of does is not a problem. They are what create your future bucks and also attract bucks during the rut. I would rather have lots of deer than no or few deer. Also the 68 turkeys that have been hammering my plots is a big problem when I can not even get a tag every year. In closing I have saw in person 14 different 1 and 2 year old bucks this hunting seasons. The future looks great. We have a fall season for turkeys . I have never hunted them. I had a trapper tell me that turkeys don’t do well if they eat the waxed dirt that coyote trappers use.
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Post by nhmountains on Nov 27, 2019 9:45:08 GMT -6
That photo looks like Art’s backyard in Minnesota.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Nov 27, 2019 9:49:05 GMT -6
Deer surviving the gun season is a good thing!! Don’t buy into the DNR propaganda.
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Post by sd51555 on Nov 27, 2019 10:12:04 GMT -6
This is a severe management problem for game managers. Guys with good deer have high expectations and they let the problems (does) walk right by each time on stand, waiting for the likely chance a big buck will show up. Drive down deer numbers and expectations, and those deer would be getting shot one by one as they show themselves. That standing corn is also a management problem. Wildlife protected and well fed run counter to state goals. SD I may be not under standing your statement here but 1st off deer season isn't even close to being done here in Wisconsin or better by me. There will be does shot before it is all over. This is by choice and plan. Having lots of does is not a problem. They are what create your future bucks and also attract bucks during the rut. I would rather have lots of deer than no or few deer. Also the 68 turkeys that have been hammering my plots is a big problem when I can not even get a tag every year. In closing I have saw in person 14 different 1 and 2 year old bucks this hunting seasons. The future looks great. My bad. I was missing a word. I wasn't referring to you as the game manager, I was referring to state game managers. Everything you just said is my point. By you not shooting out your entire herd, and by you feeding them exceptionally well, your 39 deer could become 55 next year, even if you shoot 5 does. Short of them corn sniping just off your border, you're holding all the cards. That is a management problem. I also don't get the feeling though, that Wisconsin is as gung ho to exterminate the deer herd like MN. Seems the concerned hunter community is much larger in Wisconsin. If we had every concerned deer hunter in MN, we couldn't fill a meeting room at the pizza ranch.
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Post by kabic on Nov 27, 2019 11:10:05 GMT -6
Buck i shot last year was following a doe, so last year being the earliest possible and this year the latest possible is a factor.
Crops probably a factor, some bottom land maybe was flooded...
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Post by kabic on Dec 2, 2019 17:44:12 GMT -6
Did we talk about the adult female that killed 2 bull elk yet?
Sounds like it is going to cost her $2000 per animal.
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Post by terrifictom on Dec 2, 2019 19:30:21 GMT -6
Did we talk about the adult female that killed 2 bull elk yet? Sounds like it is going to cost her $2000 per animal. Just picture after she shoots the 2nd bull elk she yells for the person she is hunting with to come over so she can tag the 2nd buck that she thinks she shot. They get there and see that there are 2 dead bull elks. I bet the 2nd person just about shit their pants.
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Post by Sandbur on Dec 2, 2019 19:59:25 GMT -6
Did we talk about the adult female that killed 2 bull elk yet? Sounds like it is going to cost her $2000 per animal. By which town?
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Post by benmnwi on Dec 2, 2019 20:05:23 GMT -6
It was in rusk county, my stomping grounds. It was likely near the big county forest northeast of ladysmith if I was guessing.
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Post by sd51555 on Dec 2, 2019 21:01:04 GMT -6
She's innocent.
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Post by batman on Dec 2, 2019 21:05:45 GMT -6
Elk were brought in by the Dnr for the tribes. Fuck that. Shoot them all.
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