Worst thing about 13" rule

[bowhuntntexas57]

Thanks for taking her hunting. Be walking her down the aisle soon enough. Really, trust me. I've got grandkids now and I promise my kids we little just the other day......

[Saltgrass Mikerr]

i agree but most kids can understand it... Probably better than us adults

x2 !!

[Tshelly]

She'll be ok. Kids need to learn a) sometimes there are disappointments in life and b) good things are worth waiting for.

Thanks for taking her hunting!

This ^

[Stick'n'String]

Unfortunately, I think the reason we have an antler restriction rather than age restriction is because most people can not age a deer. If everyone could half way age deer then I think the age restriction would be better than the antler restriction.

I agree. I have an 8 point that I've been watching for 2 years that doesn't meet AR. My family and I believe this deer is at least a 6 year old but I can't harvest it because of AR.

[denowt]

But the good thing is there is no such thing as a spike fawn.

I've got a picture if you'd like to see a spike fawn.

It's about scouting and self managing.



It's discouraging to a lot of newcomers (like my girlfriend) who has went 4 times with me hunting and if we could take a doe in "general season" we could have had one down.

The lack of self managing hunters is why AR is necessary in the first place.
South Texas doesn't have AR because most hunters there are already doing more managing than what AR would accomplish.

On the doe issue, look into your county's WMA coop in order to get some doe tags.