This season has become an even bigger disapointment than last year, and last year was a bigger disapointment than the year before that.
I have great memories as a kid riding the gravel roads counting pheasants with my dad, those day's are gone! I'm afraid the same thing is happening to our deer. Over the last few years I've seen less and less and less deer. This year has become the worst I my have seen in over 25 years of bow hunting deer. I spend a lot of time in the woods in the fall, the avg. trip out I would see 3-5 deer. This year my avg. was, get this. less than one! Infact I went 8 straight trips to the woods at one time and didnt see even one, and this was during prime time in Nov.
I dont have to be killing deer to enjoy my time in stand, as we all know as bow hunters! But watching deer, patterning deer, creating game plans, understanding food sources, telling deer stories and of course all of the memories, ah yes the memories, this year "not many"! I found my self (and I'm not the only one, almost everyone I've talked to feels this way) sitting in stand bored and a little pissed the state has taken one of the things I enjoy the most and make it very boring.
I understand there are places that still hold a lot of deer and those places still might need the herd thinned some?? But this does not hold true everywhere. We are very low on deer in my area but we can still by more doe tags, and there is a speical doe season I beleive this weekend....Why....Because we have to many deer...are you kidding! I see and hear stories from other states that have completely screwed up there deer herds by over estimating the whitetail population and allowing to many deer to be killed, and now it's happeneing here!
Deer hunting for me is great intertainment, the entertainment is no longer as entertaining as it use to be. On one hand than want people to hunt and enjoy the great outdoors but on the other hand they are making it hard to enjoy!
I have great memories as a kid riding the gravel roads counting pheasants with my dad, those day's are gone! I'm afraid the same thing is happening to our deer. Over the last few years I've seen less and less and less deer. This year has become the worst I my have seen in over 25 years of bow hunting deer. I spend a lot of time in the woods in the fall, the avg. trip out I would see 3-5 deer. This year my avg. was, get this. less than one! Infact I went 8 straight trips to the woods at one time and didnt see even one, and this was during prime time in Nov.
I dont have to be killing deer to enjoy my time in stand, as we all know as bow hunters! But watching deer, patterning deer, creating game plans, understanding food sources, telling deer stories and of course all of the memories, ah yes the memories, this year "not many"! I found my self (and I'm not the only one, almost everyone I've talked to feels this way) sitting in stand bored and a little pissed the state has taken one of the things I enjoy the most and make it very boring.
I understand there are places that still hold a lot of deer and those places still might need the herd thinned some?? But this does not hold true everywhere. We are very low on deer in my area but we can still by more doe tags, and there is a speical doe season I beleive this weekend....Why....Because we have to many deer...are you kidding! I see and hear stories from other states that have completely screwed up there deer herds by over estimating the whitetail population and allowing to many deer to be killed, and now it's happeneing here!
Deer hunting for me is great intertainment, the entertainment is no longer as entertaining as it use to be. On one hand than want people to hunt and enjoy the great outdoors but on the other hand they are making it hard to enjoy!