Deer Season 2020-21

[tcecil88]

I have seen maybe 10 deer all season with no shot opportunities. My usual spots that produce are pretty bare this year. I don't know if the Blue Tongue from last year it my area harder than others, but we are not seeing very many deer at all this year. I can still hunt the last 4 days of the muzzleloader season and the last 4 days of the antlerless season, so hopefully I will get one.

 

[phylodog]

I have seen maybe 10 deer all season with no shot opportunities. My usual spots that produce are pretty bare this year. I don't know if the Blue Tongue from last year it my area harder than others, but we are not seeing very many deer at all this year. I can still hunt the last 4 days of the muzzleloader season and the last 4 days of the antlerless season, so hopefully I will get one.

Same in SW Owen Co

 

[Hoosier Carry]

Maybe Antlerless season in areas with low deer population is part of the problem. If your not seeing much do you think it’s wise to kill a doe.

 

[El Conquistador]

I have owned my place for 13 years and can count on one hand the doe's that have been taken.

 

[phylodog]

Maybe Antlerless season in areas with low deer population is part of the problem. If your not seeing much do you think it’s wise to kill a doe.

I've not killed a doe since the early 90's in Texas. I would if I felt it would be beneficial or at least of little to no impact on the herd as I'd love to have the meat.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I've not killed a doe since the early 90's in Texas. I would if I felt it would be beneficial or at least of little to no impact on the herd as I'd love to have the meat.

Does one (buck or doe) really have more of an impact than the other though? I mean it does take two to "tango" so to speak. And paraphrasing Yul Brenner in "The King and I"... "A bee is meant to go from flower to flower. A flower does not go from bee to bee to bee."

I watch "Swamp People" a lot and they take the opposite view - that eliminating a big bull gator does more to reduce breeding than eliminating females.

 

[Hookeye]

Deer don't pair up to mate.
You kill a buck, that's one deer.
You kill a doe, and you kill her and all her would be offspring.

You kill that buck, another one will breed the does.

2nd rut is now or maybe almost done.
Does not bred the first go around, would be now, along with the doe fawns that are coming into maturity.

 

[Hookeye]

QDM says better bucks do the breeding the closer the buck to doe ratio gets to 1 to 1.

If you have lots of does, by all means, take the surplus.

You gotta think about what you and those around you are doing.

Eating tag soup is not a sin.

Was just invited for a late antlerless in another county, where there are reportedly plenty of does.

See what happens.

Take the old pretty #1 in .280 rem. Grocery shop w class.

 

[yetti462]

I have plenty of does in my neck of the woods. I killed one in bow, my boy shot one, could probably get two more and be ok. Here in about a month the bottoms below my house fill up with deer. You see on average 60 a night .

 

[Hookeye]

My close to home spot does NOT have the doe numbers. Never has had enough to justify a bonus number of 2.
IMHO 1 doe is enough, be it bow, mz or bonus.
But people keep shooting what few are around and it's less deer yr after yr. Steady decline.

 

[Backpacker]

I was camping in the HNF Charles C. Deam Wilderness December 10/11. I believe this is muzzleloader season, right? I heard four shots fired in about 45 seconds. Are there ML rifles that can be reloaded and fired that quick? Maybe cap and ball revolver was fired?

 

[JimH]

I was camping in the HNF Charles C. Deam Wilderness December 10/11. I believe this is muzzleloader season, right? I heard four shots fired in about 45 seconds. Are there ML rifles that can be reloaded and fired that quick? Maybe cap and ball revolver was fired?

Or a squirrel hunter,or a rabbit hunter,or Jerry Miculek took up muzzleloading...

 

[Backpacker]

Or a squirrel hunter,or a rabbit hunter,or Jerry Miculek took up muzzleloading...

Duh, I should have thought about the other game animals. Thanks

 

[BigRed]

Good day in the woods.... Venison for a buddy that cannot get out this season because he's taking care of his elderly mother.

 

[tcecil88]

Maybe Antlerless season in areas with low deer population is part of the problem. If your not seeing much do you think it’s wise to kill a doe.

A man has to eat.

 

[w_ADAM_d88]

My dad took this guy yesterday on our property in VA.

 

[jagee]

Whoa...VA has some weird whitetails...they don't have any legs!

 

[ghitch75]

Whoa...VA has some weird whitetails...they don't have any legs!

or body just hide....

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Whoa...VA has some weird whitetails...they don't have any legs!

But I bet they're really easy to track!

 

[El Conquistador]

Good thing it had a big rack, being that close to the ground it would have been hard to see.