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Care to share that one with us? Or family secret?

I'm tree surfing in 9H, actually kinda fun, doubt I'll see anything. Good to be out though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

How is it that the crossbow is going to make such a difference? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Outdoor News quoted one of my posts from this thread! I'm famous!![emoji41] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm officially convinced that DEC knows this won't work, either will an early mz season. They will resort to doe only or earn a buck during regular season, and all this hoopla is just so they can say they tried. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's been 150 years, how about you give it a rest.All in good fun brother, we are just talking about what we are passionate about. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

At the end of the day I believe we are conservationists, and if we thought this plan DEC has would work, we would deal with it like adults. As far as I'm concerned I'd stop hunting if that was needed to protect the heard. Problem is most of us are convinced, rightfully so, that this plan cannot possible work. It's not that we are being selfish. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm not here to argue but if you agree that bow hunters are gun hunters, and dead doe is in fact just that, and it doesn't matter when she goes down....then let them throw an early mz season at us. The result will be no different than what we are discussing right now. A whole bunch of bow hunters who are gun hunters who will not take part. So unless masses of gun only hunters suddenly decide they want a part of an early mz season, invest in a mzldr for a season which may not last, to shoot doe only, the net result will be the same. Maybe I am wrong, maybe tons of people will jump on, but given the limited participation in late season, I doubt it, not for doe.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I understand, I used to hunt a lot but I'm back in school, got married and just had a baby. Although I hunt mostly outside of the affected area, time constraints have seriously altered my ability to get out there and be choosy. And it just so happens that's closest spot I can go is IN the affected area so it's a bit of a double whammy I didn't see coming. I'll be lucky to kill anything this year which is why the limitation is an issue for me personally. I'm not going to let get to me though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Fair enough, thanks that's interesting actually. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Is that because they have a specific buck patterned and they don't want to mess it up? Just curious, because my group will shot as many doe as they have tags, I'm curious why the drastic difference in our ways. And what unit are they in? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Is it really like shooting fish in a barrel in these places? There is a 30 acre parcel I have access to in 8f, and while there are deer there, they aren't walking past my stand every 30 min. If it's really that good on some of the other properties I wish someone would let me know I'd love to join the party. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I didn't take what you said personally so no hard feelings but I just wanted to point out that I am a meat hunter and I am bothered by this new reg still. What if the only deer I see during mz is a buck? I have to let that meat walk, and one more deer that would have been taken lives on. DEC claims this is about deer density not protecting young bucks. Last year on gun opener I sat until almost 3pm before I shot a doe, reason being it was the only doe I saw. I had 7 young bucks around but the owner has a thing about letting those guys grow up a little, his land not mine so I respect it. If I had shot a buck early I would have been back up the tree after gutting it. I shoot doe, as many as I can as it is, I didn't need Albany to punish me for it while telling me to go shoot more. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Everyone I hunt with including myself have let the air out of far more doe than buck. We hunt because we like to shoot em and eat em.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Funny thing is they did have a public comment period, myself and the people I hunt with did not respond favorably. I can't imagine that anyone did after reading this thread, yet they went along with the change anyway. Do they really think guys and gals are going out in 15 degree snow banks during late muzzleloader just to watch a weary buck walk on by after hunting hard all season? The Bucks help to get people out and they might still shoot a doe if one comes by, but take the bucks out of the equation and there is less reason to be out. This seems like a dismal failure already. I have no problem shooting doe, I'd shoot a doe on opening day regardless, but if a buck walks by later on.....I'd be shooting less deer, not more. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk