I have yet to see someone picked on for shooting a certain size of mule deer. Speaking for myself and most, I don’t think anyone cares about an individual shooting a small or young buck. It’s the collective of an almost unregulated management system that barely allows any public land mule deer bucks to survive puberty. Pretty much everyone here would shake your hand and congratulate you even if you shot a younger buck.
Let’s see em!?
What? I'm seeing mule deer does with triplets everywhere. I have easily seen a couple hundred deer already and can only recall seeing one doe without a fawn. Lots of muley fawns everywhere. Never seen such a crop of young ones. Looks like the drought beat up on the range in the places I hunt but still lots of deer. Too many. With CWD on the rise it's not good seeing thirty deer running together this early.
You know those little thumbnail pictures where you really can't identify what is actually in it? That is the world you live in. Montana is actually bigger than that.
What is your opinion on point restrictions of bucks? 4point or bigger or???
This is a find example of a picture is worth a thousand words. The last thing we need to do is to focus the buck harvest on the bucks with the best potential at a younger age. Not going to help if you are looking to grow better bucks and if the older bucks are the issue with CWD a four point restriction is also a bad idea.
Micro management is what the mule deer of this state need, Not only region by region, but unit by unit.
Nice! If I may ask, what year did she harvest that buck?
Agreed!
8 years ago
Posted in the "as they lay" thread for now.
I culled one of those a couple years back. Don't want that guy in the gene pool if Quality Horn Management is the objective.
Micro management is a nice concept but this is a huge state with limited resources (that have to be squandered on pheasant farms to provide birds for the kiddies to shoot). May not be very practical.
It wouldn’t be difficult at all.
A couple years ago at a meeting in Dillon an old timer waited until the end and finally stood up to say his piece. “I’m sick of hearing about the wolves and lions and bears killing all the deer. You wanna know what’s killing ‘em? It’s bullets!”
It’s time to rip the band aid off!
Those aren’t triplets. It’s an orphan fawn picked up by another doe because someone blazed momma.
