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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5406327" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>When PI became a WMA, the deer were overpopulated (at least in terms of the crop damage they were causing).</p><p></p><p>Also in the beginning, a much higher percentage of the island was planted agricultural fields (mostly soybeans), and much of the other areas were mature hardwoods. This meant there was relatively little security cover whereby bucks could escape the army of hunters on the quota hunt. This lack of cover greatly enhanced hunter success.</p><p></p><p>When I went there in December 2016, disappointment would be an understatement.</p><p>A significant amount of the former ag field acreage had become the equivalent of 5-yr-old clear-cuts, virtually impenetrable brushy areas, with no trees larger than your arm. When the hunters came in to scout the day before the quota hunt, the older deer simply went into these areas and hunkered down.</p><p></p><p>But there was really no evidence of many deer at all in 2016, i.e. very few tracks around the beanfields and fresh rubs were very few & far between.</p><p></p><p>Note the 2016 buck kill.</p><p>In my party of three hunters, two of three didn't even see a deer of either sex while hunting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5406327, member: 1409"] When PI became a WMA, the deer were overpopulated (at least in terms of the crop damage they were causing). Also in the beginning, a much higher percentage of the island was planted agricultural fields (mostly soybeans), and much of the other areas were mature hardwoods. This meant there was relatively little security cover whereby bucks could escape the army of hunters on the quota hunt. This lack of cover greatly enhanced hunter success. When I went there in December 2016, disappointment would be an understatement. A significant amount of the former ag field acreage had become the equivalent of 5-yr-old clear-cuts, virtually impenetrable brushy areas, with no trees larger than your arm. When the hunters came in to scout the day before the quota hunt, the older deer simply went into these areas and hunkered down. But there was really no evidence of many deer at all in 2016, i.e. very few tracks around the beanfields and fresh rubs were very few & far between. Note the 2016 buck kill. In my party of three hunters, two of three didn't even see a deer of either sex while hunting. [/QUOTE]
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