Be interesting to see how the public comment is skewed for or against regulation change. Up until now I can only remember them back peddle on proposed deer reg changes twice 2009 introducing gun season to Grayson/Dallas/Rockwell counties and last year them extending general season into middle of January in north texas same so it was uniform with south texas. In both cases there was heavy public opposition.
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Originally posted by bossbowman View PostBe interesting to see how the public comment is skewed for or against regulation change. Up until now I can only remember them back peddle on proposed deer reg changes twice 2009 introducing gun season to Grayson/Dallas/Rockwell counties and last year them extending general season into middle of January in north texas same so it was uniform with south texas. In both cases there was heavy public opposition.
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I will chime in. I don't like the idea after mulling over it. I remember when they did this in the 90's as well, and it did put a huge dent in our deer population. I personally think youths should be allowed to kill ONE doe during youth season.
That being said, I would be for it on my exact place, but my place has 10x the deer as a place 5 miles down the road. Point is it doesn't make sense for the whole area. Sounds like the state doesn't want to deal with MLD tags.
I personally believe that the state needs to step up and address the fragmentation of land and hunting. I would like to see something put into place where you have to have at least X amount of acres to hunt. I would LOVE to see all places get MLD tags based on acreage, but I realize this would never happen.
I know for a fact that a family a mile down the road from me killed 5 bucks during Thanksgiving weekend in 2017. They were hunting less than a 30 acre cow pasture, and I know at least one of those bucks was under 13"....
So I am strongly against it! Where can I comment online?Last edited by Hockley; 12-21-2018, 09:35 AM.
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Originally posted by Hockley View PostI will chime in. I don't like the idea after mulling over it. I remember when they did this in the 90's as well, and it did put a huge dent in our deer population. I personally think youths should be allowed to kill ONE doe during youth season.
That being said, I would be for it on my exact place, but my place has 10x the deer as a place 5 miles down the road. Point is it doesn't make sense for the whole area. Sounds like the state doesn't want to deal with MLD tags.
I personally believe that the state needs to step up and address the fragmentation of land and hunting. I would like to see something put into place where you have to have at least X amount of acres to hunt. I would LOVE to see all places get MLD tags based on acreage, but I realize this would never happen.
I know for a fact that a family a mile down the road from me killed 5 bucks during Thanksgiving weekend in 2017. They were hunting less than a 30 acre cow pasture, and I know at least one of those bucks was under 13"....
So I am strongly against it! Where can I comment online?, the bag, tag and permit requirements are the same as for the first two days of the general
season in the county
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Originally posted by bossbowman View PostAs for your second part it could happen, other states landowners have to put in and draw for a set # of tag for a given county and part of it is based on the amount of acreage you own, some years you might get a tag/tags, some years you might not, the prevents the problem of someone shooting a @#*&load of deer on a 15 acre spot.
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Originally posted by bossbowman View PostIf you shoot them in october, those fawns will have never happened anyway, I don't get this way of thinking
If the problem is too many deer in general then a late season doe is better.
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If the population and sex ratios have risen to the point that they are proposing a short doe season, then the area needs a doe season. Every single county that has started doe days went through the exact same argument that the small properties with thousands of hunters are going to decimate the deer population. All of them. Every singe one. Not one exception. And each time a new county proposes doe days, the exact same argument pops up. Yet for some reason, there still seems to be deer in all those counties. And the deer densities are still too high. And the sex ratios are still bad. If its to the point that everybody that simply joins a coop gets doe permits, then why not just make a short doe season so you don't have to jump through the hoops and create a bunch of paperwork? You can't do any real damage to a deer herd in 4 days. Plus, even if the hunting pressure is extreme in a few areas, the deer will learn to avoid those areas.
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Originally posted by mmoses View PostIf the problem is there are too many does and they are not all getting bred then killing them in pre rut is beneficial.
If the problem is too many deer in general then a late season doe is better.
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Originally posted by Deerguy View PostIf the population and sex ratios have risen to the point that they are proposing a short doe season, then the area needs a doe season. Every single county that has started doe days went through the exact same argument that the small properties with thousands of hunters are going to decimate the deer population. All of them. Every single one. Not one exception. And each time a new county proposes doe days, the exact same argument pops up. Yet for some reason, there still seems to be deer in all those counties. And the deer densities are still too high. And the sex ratios are still bad. If its to the point that everybody that simply joins a coop gets doe permits, then why not just make a short doe season so you don't have to jump through the hoops and create a bunch of paperwork? You can't do any real damage to a deer herd in 4 days. Plus, even if the hunting pressure is extreme in a few areas, the deer will learn to avoid those areas.
Lavaca County issues over 3k doe tags for last season and only 1100 were used.
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