re: Do you disagree with "doe days" on private land?

Ho lee shite. There is an easy solution to all of this. If you have or lease 500 acres or more, join DMAP. If you own less, we successfully lobbied for and got the landowner assistance program which allows smaller landowners to do the same. Now, you can shoot a doe whenever the hell you want.

Buy your own property
DMAP it
Shoot doe's whenever you want

No. You're going to pull your arm out the socket reaching that far. I've seen a couple bucks this year I didn't shoot.

You "4.5 year old or more" people have an incredible talent for sucking the fun out of hunting. Just because I don't want to shoot something doesn't mean someone else shouldn't be glad to.

The easiest solution is to go shoot a fricken doe. Frick a Doe day, frick dmap. You can barely drive safely for risking hitting a deer. Kill one. Phuket. Just don't get caught. Or better yet, get a tag from a dmap club. Badabing.

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So yes, I say that private land in my area should have NO doe days.

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On your private land you don't have to shoot does if you don't want. No reason to have the state step in and say no killing of does.

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The lease I'm currently in is no does, so you know what happens... It comes to the point where people want meat, so if it has horns it's down.

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With all the information and research out there today about buck to doe ratio how could the lease members come to the conclusion to not shoot does? Sounds like a bunch of old men that you would hear back in the 80s comparing the deer herd to their cow herd and how if you shot the mama cows you wouldn't have any calves. They had no idea about carrying capacity and the tendency of old does to run off young bucks from their territory.

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We just need to prohibit adults from shooting any buck 2.5 years or younger. Then, regardless of doe regs, you will see more quality deer. The brown it's down thugs need to be stopped.

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How about you go fly a kite in a lightning storm

Another debate that's all relative to where you are hunting. There is not a right answer. 186 acres of wooded land in Ms we kill 4 doe per year, only 2.5 year old bucks for kids 3.5 for adults. My neighbors blast away. Not one bit of science involved, it's just what works for us. We always kill 2 or 3 nice bucks every year.

Lease in Henry County Tn. 480 acres of crop land, maybe 80 acres of woods total. We kill 40 doe and that's never enough. Wish I knew how to post pics to show what it looks like at times on this place.

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With all the information and research out there today about buck to doe ratio how could the lease members come to the conclusion to not shoot does? Sounds like a bunch of old men that you would hear back in the 80s comparing the deer herd to their cow herd and how if you shot the mama cows you wouldn't have any calves. They had no idea about carrying capacity and the tendency of old does to run off young bucks from their territory.

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From what I've been told its been this way since the 80s, so my guess is it will continue to be bucks only till the end. Worse part is they run dogs too, and as someone that has run dogs before I know you dont get enough time to check for horns.. You ground check then see what it is after the fact.

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Worse part is they run dogs too, and as someone that has run dogs before I know you dont get enough time to check for horns.. You ground check then see what it is after the fact.

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We ran dogs for years and still managed our herd. It takes a little more patience but it can be done. We killed most of our does during the still season so we didn't accidentally shoot button bucks and then shot "three on one side" for our bucks.