DMAP

It’s all pros to me.

DMAP allows a property to kill the amount of does needed to be killed. You can kill more than one doe a day, which is helpful.
Record keeping improves.
The top level of Louisiana DMAP gives tags for cull bucks.

Cons: Not seeing deer anymore. Just my experience.

Pro:

Doe day anytime, no pressure on when to take them vs state doe days.
No tag verification. Click on the tag prior to transport and fill out paperwork at skinning shed.

Cons:

No one wants to pull that jaw bone and will remember once everything is in the gut bucket.
Members loose tags if they hold onto them.
Lease holder will get a ton of tags and members will be upset they can’t fill em per lease rules.

you have to keep up with the jawbones, paperwork, and mail it to LDWF every year. But you get a LOT of doe tags. Our lease gets about 60 each year and we can shoot all we can handle. I've shot two in one day just to see the difference between an Accubond and a Berger out of the same rifle. At the top tier, you get an extra two weeks of modern rifle hunting after the close of primitive rifle.

the first year we did it, I thought the guy in Monroe made a mistake. He told me it's an equation based on acreage. Like 50 acres per doe tag and 150 acres per buck tag. He said if we want to see more bucks, start killing does...

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if we want to see more bucks, start killing does...

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Damn hard to get people to start shooting does. Got bucks on camera, don't want to deal with them, frickin awful stupid doe days, etc etc

I think most 1000 acre + places could do well to have 2 years of does only abd shoot every one.

The two best tools for deer management are a match and a bullet.

Our club will not issue doe tags until you get to skinning shed with the doe tagged with your state doe tag on the doe. Then they give you a doe tag to put on your doe. Kind of defeats the purpose. If you kill a doe and doe not tag it where it lay Game Warden gives you a ticket. Idiotic rule made by dum asses.

In our situation, can't come up with a single con. Unless you count the $100 we pay. We've got a small lease, 180 acres. Not a ton of deer. We've got 10 doe tags and 7 kids that can hunt it. Each kid has a tag in their pocket to use anytime they get a shot, which on our lease isn't often. Not sure we could shoot 10 does if we intended to. We don't pull jaws, just have to fill out the paperwork and mail it in at the end of the year. I don't consider that a hassle for the ability of our kids to get a shot at a deer. More than worth it to us.

Where I think it went wrong for us is, they prescribed killing way to may does. If you shoot every doe that comes out during the day all you end up with is does that come out at night. Way too many button bucks got killed even after a fine was put on them. It just didn’t play out well. If you think you need to kill more does then do it incrementally and see what happens and let young bucks walk.