How effective are hunters at controlling deer populations?
How effective are hunters at controlling deer populations?
I would say hunters are the best method of controlling deer populations.
I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow. – Fred Bear
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Outdoorsfool
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Re: How effective are hunters at controlling deer population
Those of us who routinely kill does are quite effective. The bonehead hunters don't do poopoo for population control. 
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Re: How effective are hunters at controlling deer population
BB - What gives? 2B is still 480 posts away from you...why the post paddin'? 
Politicians are like shoemakers who make pretty shoeboxes but forget to make the shoes.
Re: How effective are hunters at controlling deer population
I'm not worried about 2B, he will always be short 
I'm bord and thought I'd bump up the topic count in the Deer forum.
I'm bord and thought I'd bump up the topic count in the Deer forum.
I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow. – Fred Bear
Re: How effective are hunters at controlling deer population
'Just doing my part
I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow. – Fred Bear
Re: How effective are hunters at controlling deer population
I've think I have run out of steam this mornin. Recipes are a dime a dozen, but deer topics is a little more work 
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Re: How effective are hunters at controlling deer population
Some hunters are mindfull to how many deer can be taken off a given area and still maintain a huntable population. I certainly believe that hunting is the very best means of population control but it's up to every individual hunter to practice good QDM. Thus if a weekend warrior who spends little time understanding QDM then goes out and kills every deer he can legally harvest and then walks away patting himself on the back for doing his part in population control is missing the objective. That is desimation of the species in a given area. I hunted a farm last year that should have had deer crawling all over it. The farmer and surrounding farmers have killed the whole area out w/nusence ( sp ? ) permits. Sad
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Re: How effective are hunters at controlling deer population
I call bullchit on those nuisance tags, MDC needs to grow a pair on that. I remember one of your post where you said they would shoot the deer and let them rot in the fields. That blinded me with anger to the point I do not even want to try to understand those farmer's point of view.
I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow. – Fred Bear