re: Regulation Spin Off

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3. You can't regulate age, so it should have minimum pts or antler spread, NO SPIKES

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Counter point, 1-2 year old 8 points are the easiest deer in the woods to kill

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Yes. Why not?

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because the wildlife on your property is not your property

Any place worth a shite in the state of Louisiana already has restrictions way more stringent than these. Your not growing “destination” bucks in the Central and NW LA pine thickets. 130”+ deer would still be the exception, not the rule. And your not growing “destination” bucks in whitetail wasteland that is S LA, even if you disarm every coonass in the state.

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There was a time not to long ago where deer were on the way out the door. There's a reason we tasked state/federal government with management.

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Generally speaking, LA whitetail population is not that good compared to other states. Whitetail numbers could benefit from a shorter season or tighter restrictions. Don't know why our seasons are so liberal because the numbers don't appear to support it. Must be habitat related. Not a biologist and didn't stay at a holiday inn last night.

Mississippi - 35 per square mile
Alabama - 33 psm
Kentucky - 20 psm
Wisconsin - 18 psm
Ohio - 18 psm
Missouri - 17 psm
Texas - 15 psm
Illinois - 14 psm
Louisiana - 10 psm
Minnesota - 9 psm
Oklahoma - 7 psm
Kansas - 7 psm
Iowa - 6 psm

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Would be interested to see those numbers revisited with "Deer per square mile of supporting habitat"

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Word. The best deer hunting in the state in the MS river delta. But I bet the deer per square mile numbers are pretty low considering the vast majority of the acreage is in wide arse open fields.

Also take into account the more than 400,000 acres of sugar cane fields and all of the salt marsh along the coast.

Almost every other state mentioned has suitable habitat in all agricultural lands

I agree. I guess that is why densities seem higher in Midwest since there is so much ag. Deer are congregated more.

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As many as one may need; ESPECIALLY on privately owned land.

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You must be in Jeff Davis Parish.

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I live and own ground in northeast, Louisiana. A second thing we have in common is that neither of us own the wildlife that live there.

I never thought you or others would want to mow down every deer, but you have to admit there are many who would if allowed.

I’m all for freedom but I’m old enough to know that the vast majority of Louisiana deer were restocked based on the fact that they were killed out in most areas.

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IDK man, I used to agree on the deer are a public resource deal, but now I tend to look at private land deer management more like a private bass pond that, for arguments sake, LDWF claims they stocked in the 1950’s (but did not stock in actuality). I manage and fish the entire pond and my neighbors are allowed to fish from their respectively-owned portions of the bank.

For Louisiana to truly be the Sportsman’s Paradise, it needs more sportsmen. Far too many game hogs, currently.