#1157361 - 01/31/09 12:33 PM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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8 POINTS OR BETTER
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It looks like a lot of the counties, hit hard by EHD, had the buck harvest go up and the doe harvest go down.
BSK what do you think caused it.
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#1157372 - 01/31/09 01:07 PM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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Not trying to answer for BSK but I think many people felt as though the herd #'s were down and they let doe walk to help rebuild the #'s. They were there to just kill a buck.
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#1157380 - 01/31/09 01:24 PM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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wow humphreys county down in all. I believe it is the result of the EHD outbreak. Simply less deer available for harvest.
I agree with you BSK.
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#1157415 - 01/31/09 02:46 PM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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Radar
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Great compilation, BSK! Thanks for posting this! Wow , the doe harvest really dropped , while more hunters apparently chose to shoot a buck instead . Could this be in large part due to a significant increase in the early November muzzleloader buck limit, going from 1 to 3 in Unit A, and from 2 to 3 in Unit L? Could it be many hunters decided to kill a buck INSTEAD of a doe, since killing the 1st buck to come along (in Unit A) would not end their muzzleloader "buck" hunting?
I agree Wes .
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#1157420 - 01/31/09 02:53 PM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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I agree with Wes also.
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#1157455 - 01/31/09 04:24 PM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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Wes Parrish
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I agree with Radar. 
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#1157652 - 01/31/09 07:24 PM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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wow humphreys county down in all. I believe it is the result of the EHD outbreak. Simply less deer available for harvest. I agree with you BSK.
I hunt the northern end of Humphreys county about a mile and a half from the Houston county line. It looks like Humphreys,Houston, Dickson countys have the most square miles put together that the harvest dropped in. I know my cameras and my personal deer sightings were way down.
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#1158024 - 02/01/09 07:30 AM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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It looks like a lot of the counties, hit hard by EHD, had the buck harvest go up and the doe harvest go down.
BSK what do you think caused it.
In areas where the buck kill actually went up but doe kill went down, the 3 buck limit very well may have been the cause.
But then you also have places in the high EHD-kill area like Houston, Humphreys, Dickson and Stewart where the buck kill went down (or stayed the same in Stewart) and the doe harvest went down even more. You can't say the 3 buck limit caused an increased buck harvest there. However, it is the same geneneral pattern of doe kill being down far more than buck kill.
If someone held a gun to my head and made me choose an opinion, I would say the data suggests the 3 buck limit was not a positive influence on harvests.
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#1158064 - 02/01/09 08:23 AM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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ERIC
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BSK,
What do you think the issue is in Jefferson County? Both the buck and doe harvest were down. This is after a 20% drop in the 07-08 harvest also. Most of the adjoining counties showed increases or not much change. The total harvest is down about 30% from two years ago with seasons that have been more liberalized (more doe days). I know that I have seen fewer deer and heard fewer shots over the last two years. What could be the cause?
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#1158066 - 02/01/09 08:23 AM
Re: '07 v '08 County Harvest Comparison
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BSK what kind of regulation changes do you think TWRA would have to make, to get a 50%-50% buck to doe harvest ratio?
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