Deer season is over...heavy rain

[Legionair]

Always wanted a guided hunt :grin:, or was that not an offer

Been thinking about it for a couple years...

Got an uncle in NC... :hmm:
And Dad lives in FL... :hmm:


Wish I knew sombody in Colorado or Montanna

Legion

 

[Pork Chop]

Wish I knew sombody in Colorado or Montanna

Legion

Heck, I wish I knew someone that had more than 5 acres that would let me hunt their land...

 

[Legionair]

Got that part covered-

Go through my 3 acres of woods and come out in 75 acres of fields and forrests...

Legion

 

[cyber_wolf1976]

Come to Ohio the deer are huge, but the bag is only 3. Wish we could bag 6. One good thing about it is we have alot of woods and field here to choose from. By the way I've never been on a guided hunt is it worth it??

 

[freetrapper20]

Just a bit of something to add about numbers of deer killed in NC and Va. Many of the dog clubs around here get a of bunch damage stamps for participating with the farmers / DMAP program, etc. One small club I know got use of 20 doe stamps this year, another got 30, and another club had on average of 10 for each farmer's property they hunted. ( There's a formula to figure who gets what). Anyhow, some hunters shoot a bunch of deer and never use their first personal tag. Heck, if we got 20 surplus tags in my small group, each of use could shoot 2 deer without using any of our own tags. Roundball is right that there are many hunters that never fill all their tags, but there are also some that shoot their limit on damage stamps so to say. I don't know much about all the legalities involved as we don't participate in the damage program or agree with all of it.

 

[nchawkeye]

I don't understand why the state gives dog hunters tags for extra deer...most of the dog hunters I know don't own much or any land...they get one farm in a block and hunt wherever they think they can get away with...And the state tells us we don't own enough "continuous" land to justify giving us extra doe tags...go figure...

 

[freetrapper20]

Yep. We got to have 1000 continuous acres to be in the DMAP. As for crop damage, they don't care how the farmer fills the tags. A hunt club can do it or he can hire somebody to fill tags. They got to fill em' or lose em' next year. Thats why the last couple days the attitude is "if its brown it goes down". Not my style of hunting for sure....especially when they shoot em' and leave em' lay.......all the clubs aren't like that, but it only takes a few to put a bad taste in people's mouth.

 

[roundball]

Yep. We got to have 1000 continuous acres to be in the DMAP. As for crop damage, they don't care how the farmer fills the tags. A hunt club can do it or he can hire somebody to fill tags. They got to fill em' or lose em' next year. Thats why the last couple days the attitude is "if its brown it goes down". Not my style of hunting for sure....especially when they shoot em' and leave em' lay.......all the clubs aren't like that, but it only takes a few to put a bad taste in people's mouth.

Back in the early 90's I was able to get myself designated by a farmer as his 'shooter' to use "depredation permits" on his farm during July and August, two summers in a row....20 per/summer.

I'd back my blazer into the fence line of a soybean field just before dark...shoot 1-2 every time...200/250/300 yards...it was like conducting a .30-06 shooting clinic...and by the laws governing "depredation permits" you couldn't do anything with the Does...I'd drag them over to the side but had to leave them at the field site...40 Does worth of meat wasted.
:shake:

 

[gmww]

...and by the laws governing "depredation permits" you couldn't do anything with the Does...I'd drag them over to the side but had to leave them at the field site...40 Does worth of meat wasted.

That is just horrible. In my state it is a Misd. to purposely waiste wild game meat. I don't think we have a depredation permit here as our bag limits are limited to one and maybe two by permit in selected counties.


On the possitive side to your experience. I bet your a wealth of information on shot placement and bullet performance just to mention a few.

 

[freetrapper20]

[/quote]40 Does worth of meat wasted.[/quote]
Well.....something ate 'em.....possums, racoons, fox, buzzards, maybe even a bear or two. Kinda goes against kill'in something for nothing. But "nature" probably didn't let it go to waste.