davidhelmly
Active Member
Several years back we went to a 12 deer limit here in GA with 2 of those 12 could be bucks. Lots of areas of the state tried to kill 10 does per hunter and it didn't take long for everyone to start complaining about the lack of deer.
Our season is 4-5 weeks of archery followed by 1 week ML and then about 12 weeks of rifle so you can see it didn't take long for major overharvest to happen in areas. Luckily there are several thousand acres in the area of my lease that is well managed and not overshot plus my lease is 1400 or so acres that is archery only so we are having some of the best hunting in the 13 years that I have had the lease.
Hunters can't just blindly fill all of their tags in some states, the hunter has to realize that they control the harvest numbers no matter what the limit is!
Our season is 4-5 weeks of archery followed by 1 week ML and then about 12 weeks of rifle so you can see it didn't take long for major overharvest to happen in areas. Luckily there are several thousand acres in the area of my lease that is well managed and not overshot plus my lease is 1400 or so acres that is archery only so we are having some of the best hunting in the 13 years that I have had the lease.
Hunters can't just blindly fill all of their tags in some states, the hunter has to realize that they control the harvest numbers no matter what the limit is!