3 a day

[tcuurry]

How many of y'all think the 3 a day is hurting your hunting areas I personally wish they would cut it out for a few years

 

[knightrider]

oh now, you know you cant shoot out a deer herd with liberal bag limits!!! cough, cough, insert sarcasim here!!!

 

[hunter drew]

I still see plenty of deer. I think it's fine like it is. But that's my opinion

 

[Diehard Hunter]

Hurting in what ways? Not being a smart aleck, but we need to know what your objectives are before we know if they are being hurt.

 

[tcuurry]

As for as have good deer populations it seems like to me ever year I see fewer and fewer deer and we're not killing any thing

 

[hunttherut]

How many hunters are actually taking 3 a day? Not very many I would say. I don't know many hunters who would want the work of quartering up 3 in a day

 

[BHC]

I like it as is

 

[timberjack86]

I was logging in coffee county a few years ago and someone was dumping deer carcasses out every night. I contacted the game warden. There was over a 100 processed does dumped there in 2 weeks. I don't know what the warden found out but it was nasty :sick:

 

[Deer Assassin]

the more i kill the more i see

hunters dont kill that many deer

avg only about 17-20 hunters a year that kill more than 20 deer a year

 

[tcuurry]

There is several people in west tn if they get the chance the will shoot everything that walks by but I don't know tho

 

[Tomahawk]

3 a day (does that is) is in place in an effort to help balance the deer herd in relation to buck to doe. Trust me, when your numbers are closer to even (1 buck for every 1 doe) you will see more bucks than you ever thought were even in the woods. When bucks have to actually work (compete) for breeding does you will see many more bucks on average. It's a hard concept for most to understand. Now if you just like to see deer and high numbers of them, then a heavy doe population is right up your alley. Don't get me wrong, I kill 7-8 does every year but that's not hunting to me, too easy to kill does but needs to be done not to mention they're great eating.

 

[Nealmeally]

I think 5 a day wouldn't hurt in the southern part of TN. Plenty of does down this way. Way too many... But like others said, how many are gonna shoot 3 a day?? I know I'm not..

 

[tcuurry]

I understand the buck to doe ratio but when you hunt a farm for 13 years started out seeing 30 to 40 a trip to seeing 20 a year and nothing's changed on the farm you have to wonder what's going on

 

[southernhunter]

When I was young hunting in middle tn . We would hunt the whole season and never see a deer . Maybe even a couple seasons in a row . We hunted hard too day light to dark most times . Just wasn't a lot of deer around back then. Now I hunt southern tn and it would be odd to think about going with out seeing a deer.saying that I understand doe to buck ratio is out of whack but I never want to go back to the way it was back then either ,

 

[muddyboots]

I love hunting properties that don't shoot does. They know where thy do.

 

[REM7]

Love the 3 day at our west TN farm, only did it a few times and doe to buck ratio is out of wack still. Neighbors dont shoot anything unless it got horns, so I try to do my part and fill the freezer.

 

[leader]

On the farm I hunt I have been trying to get them to shoot does every year. It would help greatly in evening out doe/buck. It's in southern middle and inthinknthis year I am going to try and take about 12 myself and donate to the Hunters for Huvgry. ALOT of work but ALOT of fun and I will be doing my part
To answer your question I think 3 a day is fine in those areas

 

[Inkstainz]

In unit l most areas have plenty of does and people won't shoot them because they just want to shoot bucks. To me for meat is just as good if not better than buck meat.

 

[Boll Weevil]

Unfortunately, folks don't always consider the 3/day limit as simply another tool to manage their local herd. There are absolutely tons and tons of deer in my area but with lots of agriculture and quality habitat the carrying capacity is pretty high. While I don't typically make use of the 3/day limit (too much dang work), it's good to know I have that latitude.

Just because the State say you can doesn't mean you should.

 

[BSK]

Just remember that because deer sightings have decline doesn't necessarily mean the deer population has declined. Take a doe population that had previously experienced little harvest pressure (all the harvest pressure was on bucks), suddenly place them under fairly substantial harvest pressure, and they will flat disappear. Does will learn to be nocturnal just like bucks do when they are facing severe harvest pressure.

 

[dsa5455]

How many hunters are actually taking 3 a day? Not very many I would say. I don't know many hunters who would want the work of quartering up 3 in a day

X2
Did that last year for the first time in thirty years of hunting. Never again! Way to much work for me.

 

[TX300mag]

I know the areas I've hunted in Henderson, Madison, Carol, Gibson, and Weakley counties have all seemed to benefit from the Unit L limits.

I see just almost or as many bucks as does now. Before unit L it was 10 does per buck at least. Sure, they adjust after having some pressure on them-but I doubt any place with any cutover or decent cover will be decimated by legal daylight hunting.

 

[Bone Collector]

I hunt High pressure, if it's brown it's down, Percy Priest WMA and see deer almost evey time I go through ML....

 

[Tomahawk]

I understand the buck to doe ratio but when you hunt a farm for 13 years started out seeing 30 to 40 a trip to seeing 20 a year and nothing's changed on the farm you have to wonder what's going on

Actually something quite drastic has happened, you've probably just forgotten. The drought in 07 did some major damages across the state (especially west and middle). I have a farm in Madison county and we are just now starting to get back to the numbers prior to 07. The EHD breakout is what the drought brought about. Though some experts claim deer herd populations will recovery in 3-5 years after a major die off from EHD, it is quite possible for it to take longer, up to 10 years based on other environmental effects.

One other change may be some neighboring property up to 3-5miles away that has changed or are offering better habitat. It can easily happen.

 

[Solo Hunter]

In my area it's been 3 a day for awhile now. The population by no means has declined since it was implemented. If anything it's steadily has increased. It's really hard to find anyone that even kills 3 does a season let alone 3 a day. So I'm fine with it.

 

[BSK]

It's really hard to find anyone that even kills 3 does a season let alone 3 a day. So I'm fine with it.

And that's the key. Even in Unit L counties, where 3 does are legal per day, it is hard to find a county where hunters kill more does than bucks. Considering fawns are born slightly favoring males over females, and if hunters kill about the same number of bucks as does in a county, how can that be a huge problem?

 

[TheRealSpurhunter]

I'm a stone cold killa, I hunt for fun and meat in Bedford CO, my plan is always 3-day, but I have never done it. Killed two many times, but 3 is tough. The two guys that hunt next to me have not killed a single doe in 3 years, and average 12 seen every sitting.

They said each year they are seeing more bucks, gee I wonder why? Cause we have killed more and more does each year, in turn helping these goobers. I have even offered to pick up the does for them, just drag them down the hill to the road I have to drive in and out of and they still wont kill them.

My place in an 80 acre cut-over in the middle of 3k acres of surrounding hardwoods and mixed pasture land, I'm not making a dent killing 20 does a year, period.

 

[benellivol]

I've done it twice and it's just a pain to process that much meat at once. I try for 4 or 5 does a year for freezer meat, but I try to process them myself. Hunting becomes too much like work when you have to drag and cut up 3 at a time lol.

 

[hitek7]

We still see plenty of deer but there is not much hunting pressure around us. I could see where some people woulf be against it if you have neighbors that shoot everything they see. Not that is depleats the deer herd, but it does make sime smarter and harder to hunt.

 

[BSK]

How much impact you can have with unlimited doe harvests is heavily dependent on the habitat of your property, as well as the doe harvest policies of your neighbors and their habitat. In open habitat, you can put a world of hurt on a deer population in short order. If your property is a thick jungle, you won't be able to put a dent in the deer population (limited visibility distance) no matter how many does you shoot. If your neighbors shoot no does, you can shoot more than normal without producing a huge impact. If your neighbors are slaughtering does, you need to be careful with your doe kill numbers.