re: Louisiana Deer hunters, How was your season?

Between my son and me we killed 3. 2 nice six points and a 7 point.

Saw deer almost every hunt and passed on a bunch of smaller bucks. A couple years ago we started passing on spikes and small bucks and the deer are getting better each year.

Ours was down substantially too, probably closer to 40-50 pounds. We had multiple bucks come in at 180, which our normal average for 3+ year old bucks is probably 225 if not more. Southwest Miss.

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I killed 17 this year

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“This is why we need lower limits and more wardens…, to account for gamehogs killing all the deer:”. The TDOB.

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Our property is in DMAP and was given 60+ doe tags. We were told to "thin the herd big time" by LDWF in Monroe.

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How many acres and what habitat type? Thx

Killed 3 in LA. 7pt, 8pt, and a doe. This was one of the best seasons I’ve had as far as finding sign and seeing bucks goes. I let a lot of small bucks walk, missed a pretty solid buck with my bow, and saw a couple shooters out of bow range. Also, the amount of big rubs I found this year was insane. I feel like I definitely found big buck areas on multiple wma’s throughout the state, and I can’t wait to hunt them again next year.

ETA: pics of some of the bigger rubs I found. The first 4 pictures are a rub line with a good bit of smaller rubs in between. The 2nd is a closeup of the 1st with my bow for size reference. The 4th is a trail cam pic of a horizontal rub that had a big scrape under it. I spent a good bit of time hunting that area and passed on a couple smaller bucks, but I think I found it too late and it was after the peak of the rut there. 5th picture is a rub I found very late in the season and didn’t get to hunt it as much as I wanted. 6th pic is a rub on a rub line I was hunting when I killed that buck. Maybe he made it, maybe there’s another big one in that area still. Finding big rubs gets me fired up more than anything else. They might not get worked as consistently as scrapes, but at least they let you know there’s a big buck that is somewhere around that area.

Killed a doe, a little rack 5 because I hadn’t shot a buck in 2 years then another 5 but he looked like a cow horn looking head on from 400 yards. I thought I was doing the lord’s work

what I like about DMAP is that when you turn in your jawbones, you get the report back where the biologist aged the deer. Its fun to see how old some of them get. Also, we get two extra weeks of modern rifle after the close of primitive.

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Gotta get my eyes checked this summer.

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Sometimes it helps to re-sight your scope midseason. You'd be surprised how much they get knocked around, especially if you're hunting with 11 year olds.

I did okay. Killed two small bucks. Spike and four pt. In area nine. But I missed A nine point and gut shot and lost a decent six point.

Had a great season overall for our group 16 deer were harvested.

Almost all the kids in our group were able to get one. Buddy had a life time memory hunt where he killed a really good buck and his son got one with him on the same stand 30 minutes later. 2 kids got their first deer this year.