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Thought experiment:What if we closed deer season for 1 year?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bone Collector" data-source="post: 4544623" data-attributes="member: 7419"><p><strong>Re: Thought experiment:What if we closed deer season for 1 y</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That is the point of the 3 doe/ day limit... to stymie populations. I know deer hunters want to see 20 deer per sit, but that is not feasible when one of the reasons put forth for the necessity of hunting is to curb deer populations. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is not entirely true. Studies show about 30,000 deer per year are hit with cars in TN. we kill about 150,000 - 175,000 deer per year hunting, so 30,000 is not a minute percentage. If you added the 30,000 on top of the # of deer killed hunting each year it would be 15-17% of the deer killed. I would imagine if we stopped shooting a bunch a does in high population areas or closed season on deer or does for a year this # would obviously go up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bone Collector, post: 4544623, member: 7419"] [b]Re: Thought experiment:What if we closed deer season for 1 y[/b] That is the point of the 3 doe/ day limit... to stymie populations. I know deer hunters want to see 20 deer per sit, but that is not feasible when one of the reasons put forth for the necessity of hunting is to curb deer populations. This is not entirely true. Studies show about 30,000 deer per year are hit with cars in TN. we kill about 150,000 - 175,000 deer per year hunting, so 30,000 is not a minute percentage. If you added the 30,000 on top of the # of deer killed hunting each year it would be 15-17% of the deer killed. I would imagine if we stopped shooting a bunch a does in high population areas or closed season on deer or does for a year this # would obviously go up. [/QUOTE]
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