re: Question About Doe Harvest

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This year was the first year we implemented rules on bucks

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We did that too. If I remember right it was either 1 or 2 with 3 on one side and 1 or 2 4 or better on one side.

The problem we ran into was there were some great 1.5 and 2.5 8 points getting killed every year.

It’s hard to balance in an average club where people still want to shoot but most other want to shoot big deer. Then you get into adding more and more restrictions and then the “oh if he had another year” stuff happens.

I got out of the club but, we were starting to see the benefits of letting deer get older after 3-5 years.

I now hunt about 75 acres that I own and I hold bucks from yearlings to 5.5 plus early into the season. After the velvet comes off they tend to like the dark and then start wandering off by muzzle loader season.

When it comes to bucks, the rule on my place is my now 18 year old son gets 1 buck of choice, and anything he wants to put on the wall. I only shoot bucks that go on my wall, and the old man (78 year old father in law) shoots what ever the hell he wants to!

Do what works for you and try to enjoy the people you hunt with more than you actually enjoy the harvest and you will never have a bad season!