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Doe Days all season except 13 mountain counties
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Robust Redhorse
Senior Member
I shouldn't have emphasized the need to increase the population so much as the timing of the doe days.
That wasn't my point, and CK, you are correct.
My point is the week of Thanksgiving is not the time to have either sex days, because that is the peak of the rut in the mountains and is the best time for a hunter to get a trophy buck.
When the woods are crowded with hunters and rifles are going off all over the place, the big bucks go nocturnal.
I would much rather have either sex days scattered on various Saturdays throughout the season, or during the time between Christmas and the end of the season.
That wasn't my point, and CK, you are correct.
My point is the week of Thanksgiving is not the time to have either sex days, because that is the peak of the rut in the mountains and is the best time for a hunter to get a trophy buck.
When the woods are crowded with hunters and rifles are going off all over the place, the big bucks go nocturnal.
I would much rather have either sex days scattered on various Saturdays throughout the season, or during the time between Christmas and the end of the season.
ssramage
Senior Member
We typically wait until Nov. 1 to start shooting does on our place anyways so that we don't disturb them during the rut.
C.Killmaster
Georgia Deer Biologist
The scheduling is actually intentional strategy. Most hunters will be targeting bucks that week, so we can provide more doe days without increasing harvest too much. However, those days are there for properties that need to reduce their population and they can focus on does if they need to. If we took the same number of days and made them all Saturdays and Sundays, the days that are the most convenient for hunters, then the doe harvest would go up dramatically. Timing also matters a lot, having doe days the first week of the rifle season will kill exponentially more does than a week in January. There are also other considerations like new hunters, Thanksgiving week is a big family hunting time period and it's good for new hunters to be able to shoot either sex.
Robust Redhorse
Senior Member
CK -
Thanks for the insight.
(I don't agree with it, but at least there is a method to the madness)
Thanks for the insight.
(I don't agree with it, but at least there is a method to the madness)
Rackinup
Senior Member
I sure hate it. Populations were just getting back like it used to be and now that will change… you can definitely think insurance companies for it.
C.Killmaster
Georgia Deer Biologist
Not really, no. We reached the goals from the deer plan and need to stabilize it.
Rackinup
Senior Member
Yeah right. I think they needed a lot more studies on populations before just opening it up like they did. It’s not a one size fits all issue. There’s a lot of people that will kill 12 does if they had the chance and now they will. Oh well.
NE GA Pappy
Mr. Pappy
they have had the chance to kill just as many does last year, the year before that, and the year before that several times over. They just didn't have as many days to do it. No limits have been changed.
Usually when I see one doe, I see several does. If a person wants to shoot 10 does, I am sure he would have the chance even with the reduced days
12 does. Do u know of anyone who has killed 10 does.
Does anyone on here know of anyone who has killed 10 does.
To kill 10 does that one person is on a plantation and it’s his job to kill does.
Hunting clubs kind of limit the harvest bags for each member. Most clubs strive to maintain a healthy heard.
1/2 the hunters in ga don’t even kill a deer. Other half average from 1 to 3 deer. Very very few kill over 5 deer.
It’s all in this thread.
My wife ain’t skinning 10 deer for me. It’s hard enough to get her to skin and process 2 deer for me. And do a euro mount for me too.
NE GA Pappy
Mr. Pappy
mine won't even skin one. She's funny thata way
We started dating I asked u don’t mine me deer hunting. She said no I skin them for my daddy.
JB0704
I Gots Goats
Yes. I keep telling y’all I grew up around these folks y’all keep saying don’t exist.
Not everyone in Ga hunts one spot. Not everyone is in a club. Lots of folks have several places to hunt and nobody really knows how many deer these folks kill. A limit of 3 or 10 ain’t stoppin em, I’m just saying they are out there and they aren’t all on big S Ga plantations.
Raylander
I’m Billy’s Useles Uncle.
Then the rules don’t matter to them one way or another.. So, how does the .gov regulate that?
JB0704
I Gots Goats
Heck I know a fella who did manage to kill 8 sittin in just one spot last year. Imagine if Ol boy had access to more than one hunting spot? This is an old single dude too. Y’all’s view of the average hunter n mine are very very different.
Raylander
I’m Billy’s Useles Uncle.
I reckon JB knows more Billys than me
JB0704
I Gots Goats
If I ruled the world does would be unlimited, but could only be killed between noon n 2 on the second Tuesday of the month. Eye reckon that would throttle it a bit.
JB0704
I Gots Goats
Guess so.
