You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics!

[landman]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

I hate to tell you list but this is not for this fall...... 2014-2015

This deer season would be 2015-2016....

Year to date 53,884 Hunters have killed 1 buck

 

[Deerbuster1996]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

I hate to tell you list but this is not for this fall...... 2014-2015

This deer season would be 2015-2016....

Year to date 53,884 Hunters have killed 1 buck

[emoji23]

 

[Os2 Outdoors]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

To even further skew the numbers, I've got no less than 5 people in my family that have lifetime or sportsman license that DO NOT deer hunt. But are registered deer hunters lol

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[TX300mag]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

I would love to think that the 1/3 limit reduction would translate into a 1/3 buck kill reduction, but the truth is a LOT of hunters were already passing up bucks before the government forced them to.


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[Biggun4214]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

Also consider that some of the hunters that killed bucks whether it was their 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc or combination thereof were bonus bucks to start with.

 

[Good time Charlie]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

I hate to tell you list but this is not for this fall...... 2014-2015

This deer season would be 2015-2016....

Year to date 53,884 Hunters have killed 1 buck

If this is true than the numbers are useless.

 

[wsm]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

:?

 

[jimm37870]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

Do you all not know that it doesn't make any difference what the numbers
are. It is now in the hands of politicians not biologists. The biologists
had set the limits at what they determined they should be. When politics
is involved the last thing they look at is factual data.

 

[Deer Assassin]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

I would love to think that the 1/3 limit reduction would translate into a 1/3 buck kill reduction, but the truth is a LOT of hunters were already passing up bucks before the government forced them to.


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amen


3% of total bucks killed is nothing

the 2 buck rule will not have no more of an affect in increasing antler size that what was trending in that direction due to increase doe kill in unit L

it screws the east tn guys big time

 

[Deer Assassin]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

Do you all not know that it doesn't make any difference what the numbers
are. It is now in the hands of politicians not biologists. The biologists
had set the limits at what they determined they should be. When politics
is involved the last thing they look at is factual data.

ditto

 

[WG Taxidermist]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

Do you all not know that it doesn't make any difference what the numbers
are. It is now in the hands of politicians not biologists. The biologists
had set the limits at what they determined they should be. When politics
is involved the last thing they look at is factual data.

100% correct!

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[JeepKuntry]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

As DA mentioned, it further screws Unit B. TWRA decided to screw us over by starting the late season doe days on a Monday. Years past we gotten to hunt the weekend before as well. Factor in the higher temps and weather (which I know cannot be predicted) late season numbers in our area are sure to be down. I've only got a hunt or two left in me.

 

[mathews338]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

I would love to think that the 1/3 limit reduction would translate into a 1/3 buck kill reduction, but the truth is a LOT of hunters were already passing up bucks before the government forced them to.


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amen


3% of total bucks killed is nothing

the 2 buck rule will not have no more of an affect in increasing antler size that what was trending in that direction due to increase doe kill in unit L

it screws the east tn guys big time

sounds to me like the east tn guys badly need lower limits. They may not like that but if it meant having more deer in the future to hunt then it needs to happen. I love deer meat but I would rather eat a ham sandwich if it helped the deer herd. You would think they would be the ones really wanting the lower limits but it almost seems just the opposite sometimes from some of the posts I see.

 

[landman]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

I hate to tell you list but this is not for this fall...... 2014-2015

This deer season would be 2015-2016....

Year to date 53,884 Hunters have killed 1 buck

If this is true than the numbers are useless.

It's True, he posted the DEER REPORT from last year, the data he has is from a 3 Buck Limit Season........

DEER REPORT comes out usually in March. Guess that's why we can't handle it. :bash:

 

[mathews338]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

I hate to tell you list but this is not for this fall...... 2014-2015

This deer season would be 2015-2016....

Year to date 53,884 Hunters have killed 1 buck

If this is true than the numbers are useless.

It's True, he posted the DEER REPORT from last year, the data he has is from a 3 Buck Limit Season........

DEER REPORT comes out usually in March. Guess that's why we can't handle it. :bash:

he knows, he said in the OP that it was from 2014.

 

[farmin68]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

Do you all not know that it doesn't make any difference what the numbers
are. It is now in the hands of politicians not biologists. The biologists
had set the limits at what they determined they should be. When politics
is involved the last thing they look at is factual data.

.
Very well said, and very true.

The game has changed and not for the better. What special interest is next to play political games with wildlife management?

Archery hunters wanting more days exclusive to themselves?
The one buck only crowd?
Antler restrictions?
The one week centerfire season advocates?
No centerfire rifles?
Waterfowlers wanting management areas closed to everything but waterfowl?
.
Some of you may laugh, but anything is possible now. And everyone of the things I listed already has someone who is in favor of it becoming regulation.

 

[AT Hiker]

The government is not forcing anyone to pass up any legal deer. They limit how many you can kill but not what you pass up. Just as the limit last year was three, you could only kill three but "pass" whatever/how-many you wanted.

I sorta see the logic you use but can we also say that the government is not dictating which deer we shoot, only how many? Its been asked many times already and some say the new limit has affected what they shoot and some say it hasnt, for me, and a lot others, it hasnt.




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[AT Hiker]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

Docpoco,

Its obvious a few of us didnt read the original thread fully or skipped over the part where you mentioned the date and explained the 3 buck representation in harvest data.

Anyways, I suggest a nice pretty little graph with all the bells and whistles. No reason other than they are nice to look at[emoji14]


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[Boone 58]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

Interesting! I am hearing a lot of talk about folks just not reporting bucks so as to kill what they want, when they want. I honestly believe in Wayne county that many are not turned in at all. I am even finding bucks with antlers left on them but the meat taken...............really?..............who in the crap kills a young buck just for meat in unit L when you can kill 3 does per day! I shake my head that that ridiculous mentality.

 

[stik]

Re: You want the statistics? You can't handle the statistics

I would love to think that the 1/3 limit reduction would translate into a 1/3 buck kill reduction, but the truth is a LOT of hunters were already passing up bucks before the government forced them to.


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amen


3% of total bucks killed is nothing

the 2 buck rule will not have no more of an affect in increasing antler size that what was trending in that direction due to increase doe kill in unit L

it screws the east tn guys big time

sounds to me like the east tn guys badly need lower limits. They may not like that but if it meant having more deer in the future to hunt then it needs to happen. I love deer meat but I would rather eat a ham sandwich if it helped the deer herd. You would think they would be the ones really wanting the lower limits but it almost seems just the opposite sometimes from some of the posts I see.

to grow a population, you protect the does and shoot the bucks. shooting bucks does little to nothing to affect the population.