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re: 2 Buck Limit Zones
Posted on 7/21/26 at 12:29 pm to WillFerrellisking
Posted on 7/21/26 at 12:29 pm to WillFerrellisking
Everyone wants to talk about the good old days but honestly for deer hunting in Louisiana the good ol days are right now Turkey and ducks and all that may have passed but we have more deer now than we probably had when Boudreaux first got here
You don’t realize how crappy deer hunting used to be. Talk to an old timer and see. That’s why they dog hunted. The deer were so sparse they needed dogs to find them
And if you shot a doe you were the scum of the earth
You don’t realize how crappy deer hunting used to be. Talk to an old timer and see. That’s why they dog hunted. The deer were so sparse they needed dogs to find them
And if you shot a doe you were the scum of the earth
Posted on 7/21/26 at 12:36 pm to Ron Cheramie
quote:
honestly for deer hunting in Louisiana the good ol days are right now
It's because pogey boats ain't after deer baw lol. But i do agree with you
This post was edited on 7/21/26 at 12:37 pm
Posted on 7/21/26 at 1:00 pm to Ron Cheramie
I remember hunting the swamp behind our house and not seeing tracks let alone a deer.
Now there’s a decent herd back there.
Same with where I occasionally hunt now in swamp in south La.
North La is nuts the amount of deer they have.
Now there’s a decent herd back there.
Same with where I occasionally hunt now in swamp in south La.
North La is nuts the amount of deer they have.
Posted on 7/21/26 at 9:44 pm to WillFerrellisking
quote:Blasphemy. There are no deer up here.
North La is nuts the amount of deer they have.
Posted on 7/24/26 at 9:17 am to Ron Cheramie
Negative, we used to have a million deer in the late '90s and early 2000s. It dropped to around 400,000. We might be up to a half a million now.
Posted on 7/24/26 at 9:17 am to REB BEER
We are nowhere near close to carrying capacity in 90% of this state
This post was edited on 7/24/26 at 9:31 am
Posted on 7/24/26 at 9:30 am to Ron Cheramie
No dude, they dog hunted them until there was nothing left.
Kisatchie has rebounded since the dogs went away, and now all the dog people or clamoring to get in there to kill everything.
Kisatchie has rebounded since the dogs went away, and now all the dog people or clamoring to get in there to kill everything.
Posted on 7/25/26 at 7:48 am to 257WBY
Y'all can thank my OCD brain for finding this data & collecting it. I got it from LDWF sites, historical articles & other reputable places.
Estimated Louisiana deer population by year:
1910:70,000
1920:17,500
1930:36,000
1940:67,000
1950:71,250
1960:200,000
1970:300,000
1980:360,000
1990:775,000
2000:1,000,000
2010:>1,000,000
2020:550,000 (droughts/floods/habitat loss/HOGS)
2025:775,000 (rebounding)
Estimated Louisiana deer population by year:
1910:70,000
1920:17,500
1930:36,000
1940:67,000
1950:71,250
1960:200,000
1970:300,000
1980:360,000
1990:775,000
2000:1,000,000
2010:>1,000,000
2020:550,000 (droughts/floods/habitat loss/HOGS)
2025:775,000 (rebounding)
Posted on 7/25/26 at 7:59 am to buckdeer85
Hunting 100 years ago must’ve sucked.
Posted on 7/25/26 at 8:52 am to Koolazzkat
Yes, my grandfather who was born in Union Parish in 1923 didn't shoot a deer until ~1960. Squirrels & rabbits were pretty much the only game in town lol. Maybe some quail back then too
Posted on 7/25/26 at 9:00 am to buckdeer85
I hear ya. My grandfather said he didn’t see a deer until the early 1930’s, and it was a dead one tied to the rear bumper of a car. He thought it was some kind of crazy-horned goat.
Posted on 7/25/26 at 11:07 am to Koolazzkat
Haha that's funny. I'm sure you have heard this old saying as many of us did. When someone saw a deer track it was the talk of the town back in the day.
Posted on 7/25/26 at 1:35 pm to Ron Cheramie
Entirely off topic, but the biggest shed I’ve ever found was along black lick creek in Kisatchie NF right outside of Dry Prong. All the tines had been chewed off by rodents but the sheer weight of that right side was mind boggling. There’s some serious bucks cruising that area.
Posted on 7/25/26 at 4:02 pm to oldskule
quote:
5 deer are PLENTY.....you cant fit 5 deer in normal freezer space....who eats 5 deer per year?
Maybe your freezer. I try to get at least three a year, plus our heifer we fatten up, then three hogs. Plus whatever else we end up with like fish, shrimp, whatever. We have four freezers, some of us live differently. We eat it, haven’t bought meat at the grocery in ages.
I need to get 6 off this year, we have way too many on the property. We have others who help us throughout the year, we’ve all agreed to take more this season.
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