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What Are Your Thoughts About “Doe Days”?
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I think this is badly needed in specific areas where there are too many does. My wife used to drive to work every morning down country roads just north of Lampasas, and she hit deer 4 times in one year, all of them does. Each hit did $3K - $5K in damage. They were EVERYWHERE, herds of them. Hit a couple myself, too. These aren't fancy bucks or anything anybody would hunt, they were just little trash deer. I remember thinking about how TPWD should have a special season on them, or maybe, say, every 2 or 3 years raise the doe limit to 10, or even unlimited, just to get the numbers down, at least temporarily.
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Originally posted by kd350 View PostI think it’ll help at our place in bastrop/lee. We have a ton of doe and I feel like it’ll take a lot of pressure off the bucks, since a lot of people around us shoot the first barely legal 8 and spike they see so they can fill the freezer
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Originally posted by kd350 View PostI think it’ll help at our place in bastrop/lee. We have a ton of doe and I feel like it’ll take a lot of pressure off the bucks, since a lot of people around us shoot the first barely legal 8 and spike they see so they can fill the freezer
Do you really think those people will not shoot the 8 or spike in addition to the does? I would bet good money that they will.
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Isn't this what MLD is for. I would love to be able to shoot 2 does in Wharton County north of 59 but I don't think it will take very long to get back to the point where it was 10 years ago. Mandatory reporting will not do a bit of good. How many people will forget about reporting it the morning after?
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What Are Your Thoughts About “Doe Days”?
Originally posted by mako191 View PostDo you really think those people will not shoot the 8 or spike in addition to the does? I would bet good money that they will.
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I’m sure they will. But I’d like to think a couple of them would hold off for a more mature buck since they know they will be able to atleast get meat with the Doe days
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The biologist in Colorado and Austin Counties told me there was a massive overpopulation of does and he couldn’t pay people to shoot them. He’d give doe permits and they’d almost invariably end up unused. Obviously it can vary a lot property to property, but I think it’s a good idea for the most part.
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Originally posted by BitBackShot View PostThe biologist in Colorado and Austin Counties told me there was a massive overpopulation of does and he couldn’t pay people to shoot them. He’d give doe permits and they’d almost invariably end up unused. Obviously it can vary a lot property to property, but I think it’s a good idea for the most part.
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Let me explain this simply for y’all that are against it. If you don’t think you have enough deer that you need to kill a doe, then don’t. Bam. It’s pretty simple really. If you live next to some redneck that shoots 30 deer a year it most likely doesn’t matter if he gets a doe now...
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Originally posted by buzzbait View PostI guess I am one of those guys. lol I get tags for Colorado County but very rarely use them.
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