Deer drives are a quick and ethical way of hunting if the members practice, sight their guns in and have fun doing so. We all hunt and we all hunt different ways, just because you do not like one way of hunting doesn't give you the right to look down upon the others that do. Pennsylvainia has in place a system to slow and check the herd in that you must harvest an antlerless deer to shoot a buck,the buck then must have 5 or more points or you have to let him walk.And it's working great the population is now down to what the habitat can handle. To harvest some does and fawns helps control the upward growth of the herd.The extra tag flaw was when they gave so many out in the first 2 hunts that the deer population was trimmed deeply for the 3rd hunt.I know my choice to hunt then as i like to bow hunt and do some mentoring of new hunters again my choice. Please don't snotagram me back, no I wouldn't rather them taking out someones vehicle, or worse, but I also don't want deer populations so low that we're back to a lottery were you don't always get a tag either.įrom my point of view shooting only bucks is a very flawed approach to management of a population.I don't hunt antlers nor eat them.Truthfully i would i would rather harvest a nice doe or even a fawn.Far more tasty for eating than some in rut buck that tastes strongly of testesterone.There is a reason that we farmers casterate the males of all animals that are raised for meat.To make better meat and control aggretion. One hunter, one tag, that's more than enough. A coyote may take a fawn, and don't get me wrong, I despise yotes, but dropping healthy doe's to fill extra tags, Do you not maybe think that knocks down the yr to yr population more so than any bush dog? A healthy doe can throw twins for 10+ yrs, over time that's 20 or more deer taken out of the population, for what, that extra bag of pepperettes? Doe's and yearling's are the first to break out of the bush, down they go, and more often then not, many are wounded only to die later and go to waste. Not saying its not hard work, and requires marksmanship, but to have a dozen guys line up, and a few others drive the deer past them, that's just a meat harvest. Now I have never been a part of a deer drive, never will, it just doesn't seem like sportsman like hunting. None of us are biologist, but have always figured you shoot a buck, pretty good chance there will be another buck you didn't get to service the does, and the herd population stay's relatively stable. We stand hunt, tree stands, ground blinds, and have always shot bucks. As a group of 4 or 5, we've always put some venison in the freezer, and most yrs, more than not, have tagged out. We hunt black powder, not by choice, but to be legal. That said, either the deer population varies greatly yr to yr, and yes I understand it does change somewhat do to hunting pressure, weather and predication, but from 1 tag, then up to 6 tags, then back to 1 tag per hunter? Makes one wonder how precise the MNR deer counts and survey's are?Īs hunter's, this also beg's the question, who need's more than 1 deer, or maybe 2 top's in any given yr? I've seen the tag allocation go from a lottery draw, where you didn't always get your tag every year, to being allowed up to 6 tag's per yr, ( 1 applied for, and 5 extra's), then to being able to buy 1 extra, and to where we are this yr, 1 tag per hunter. I have been hunting deer in the 90's WMU for probably 35yrs or more. I'm sure this post will raise some discussion, but here it goes.
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