LDWF needs move deer and duck hunting season dates 30 days later.

Once again, LDWF has no control over DUCKS!
You need to contact USFW and make them aware of your concerns about season start and end dates.

Maybe in your area, but Deer in some areas would have already bred if you postpone it 30 days

And for ducks that would be bad. Pair bonds would be broken up

There are wood ducks starting to nest right now in some places

If you can’t kill 6 deer with the current season I don’t know what to tell you.

you may want to go back and actually compare weather data... because despite the climate change alarmists it's not much different that 80s or 90s. even the 70s

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boudinman

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You already frick up the rant with your dumb post now you are trying to ruin the outdoor board?

As someone who hunts in area 9 in St. Mary parish. We barely have rifle season during the rut. I always say rifle should start on Dec 15 or later and open until Feb 15th. All of our doe days I still have spotted fawns and does full of milk and nursing due to our deer breeding so late. It isnt just my property either it is everyone around us. I say rifle until Feb 15th then archery until last day of Feb would be perfect.

Deer season is based on rut and subsequently fawns being self sustainable.
Also, in many parts of the state, bucks start losing antlers late Feb

Now as for ducks? I agree however it’s a federal issue and since the feds are most interested in stifling its citizens I wouldn’t expect any relief

What really needs to happen is the limit changed. No one needs to kill six deer a season.

^ This is why you don’t see them! Want the ability to kill bigger bucks and or see more deer, then advocate for reducing the limit down and manage the deer better. There is nothing wrong with the dates of the seasons as it coincides with the RUT!

Don't deer hunt so I could give a shite about that. But have been duck hunting for over 40 years seriously, watching the patterns, migrations and what not. Over here in the west zone of La., and not counting the areas in SWLA, we see more ducks in the first split, than the second. And its been that way since the late 80's. I would like to see it open the last week in October and run 45 days straight, and be done with it. And I would also like for Louisiana to let parishes define their own seasons. No sense in lumping Vernon parish with those that border marshes, rice fields and the like. We are killing birds that are migrating and stopping for a rest and water. We have no agricultural land here, the only food we have is acorns and a bit of duck weed. I know areas of food love hunting ducks late, which is fine, but not for this area. And with the drought this year there have been no wooducks whatsoever because the acorn shed was lite. Normally you would see about a hundred wooducks on any given morning. Yesterday I hunted and didn't see a single wooduck.

Duck season I agree a week or two would be helpful. Deer season I am fine with, if you are one of those places with a later rut, maybe move.

I am for reducing the number of deer killed and limiting the days a few.