Trail camera issues fixed, now pics from them ...

[FLATHEAD]

-18 and the girls are out munching, still haven't seen the boys. Hope some survived.....
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You’ve got some beautiful healthy deer right there.

 

[FLATHEAD]

The deer program is back.
They pay $100 for a buck and $150 for a doe.
They say the goal is to harvest as manny deer as possible to start trying to control the population.

Read that article. That’s a good program to cut the deer population. Around here they would have no problem getting hunters.
I’d be willing to bet that a huge contributor to the problem is access to property to hunt. In the southeast corner of Pa. they basically give unlimited doe tags to try to cut down on deer population, have for years, still a problem. The public areas you can legally hunt there are not that many deer. Problem is all the pockets of woods between developments, large parcels the owners won’t allow hunting etc. Too much land that holds deer that’s unhuntable for one reason or the other. Initiatives for land owners to allow hunting would help as much as a bounty.

 

[Scott Danforth]

could cull the developers, leaving the little pockets of nature to nature.

 

[FLATHEAD]

could cull the developers, leaving the little pockets of nature to nature.

Couldn’t agree more.

 

[aspeck]

Hunted Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday ... HARD. averaged about 5-6 miles of walking and stalking per day. Saw one deer Saturday and 3 a mile away on Tuesday. Hardly saw any tracks in the snow. The almost unlimited tags around here are killing the population on public ground. Heard of a gang that took 86 deer from the area we hunt last year ... they used thermal imaging cameras to find the deer. That doesn't make me happy at all!

 

[WIMUSKY]

Hunted Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday ... HARD. averaged about 5-6 miles of walking and stalking per day. Saw one deer Saturday and 3 a mile away on Tuesday. Hardly saw any tracks in the snow. The almost unlimited tags around here are killing the population on public ground. Heard of a gang that took 86 deer from the area we hunt last year ... they used thermal imaging cameras to find the deer. That doesn't make me happy at all!

I've been wondering how your season was going, apparently not good. That gang decimated that area and it's going to take a long time for it to recover. It sounds like they busted that group?

 

[aspeck]

I've been wondering how your season was going, apparently not good. That gang decimated that area and it's going to take a long time for it to recover. It sounds like they busted that group?

Nope, not busted … at least not yet.

 

[aspeck]

My view for the last week …

Son-in-law got a real nice 10pt about 200 yards behind his house. Last evening went to see the grand daughters and 8 doe walked out into the field. 12 year old didn’t want to shoot… she wanted a buck. All 8 standing broadside at 100yards. I watched them in the scope for 10 or more minutes and then emptied the gun and went inside … decided I wasn’t in the mood to gut and skin any last night. I must be getting old and soft! LOL!