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re: Should some parishes in Louisiana adopt Antler restrictions?
Posted on 10/23/25 at 3:30 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
Posted on 10/23/25 at 3:30 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
I began re-reading David Moreland’s book last night and he mentions LDWF did an antler restriction in Area 6 02-04. After that it looks like Thistlethwait had a 10-yr antler restriction.
LSp Mag Thistlethwait AR 2008 Article
LaSp Mag 2012 Article Thistlethwait AR
LSp Mag Thistlethwait AR 2008 Article
LaSp Mag 2012 Article Thistlethwait AR
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Posted on 10/23/25 at 3:57 pm to White Bear
I've been hunting TW since 2015. The first 5 years we hunted I would see 8-10 mature bucks a year. Since they opened up all the extra firearm seasons and everyone started shooting 2 year old bucks, I maybe see 1 or 2 good bucks a year.
Posted on 10/23/25 at 8:46 pm to White Bear
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To the PA rules, seems the limit of one buck per season would do more towards growing older bucks than an antler restriction would.
That was not my experience. It’s always been 1 buck per year as long as I’ve hunted there. With 1 million hunters in the state, there was a lot of competition so people shot the first buck they saw.
Also, until fairly recently, the season was buck-only the first week of rifle season, and the 2nd week was buck and doe. Seems like most people hunted the first week only (or just the opening weekend and Monday) and shot anything with antlers. Big bucks became so rare that there was no shame in killing a little one.
Posted on 10/24/25 at 5:40 pm to turnpiketiger
Antler restrictions often create inferior horned deer.
Bought a place that was 8 point of better. We had the biggest 5,6,7 points.
Took years to turn it around.
1- age, not horn size
2- shoot older inferior horned deer, which is any without brow tines
Bought a place that was 8 point of better. We had the biggest 5,6,7 points.
Took years to turn it around.
1- age, not horn size
2- shoot older inferior horned deer, which is any without brow tines
Posted on 10/24/25 at 7:20 pm to Out da box
quote:Sounds like heaven.
We had the biggest 5,6,7 points.
Posted on 10/24/25 at 9:03 pm to Out da box
Had a place in WBR parish during the horn restrictions and there was a huge bodied buck with jacked up horns that seemed to be banging every hot doe on place. Would even swim across the ICWW and bang them over there. To your point, the restrictions would have been more successful if we were given the latitude to shoot that buck and his offspring. They were easily recognized.
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