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Post by stroupy on Dec 4, 2019 15:08:44 GMT -5
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Post by themaninorange on Dec 4, 2019 15:23:44 GMT -5
The turnout was good in my area
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Post by ridgecommander on Dec 4, 2019 15:34:51 GMT -5
Is this something official from the PGC or anecdotal localized hunter reports?
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Post by davet on Dec 4, 2019 15:44:06 GMT -5
Me thinks it's a guess to align a previous "wish" of what would happen
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Post by stroupy on Dec 4, 2019 15:54:35 GMT -5
Is this something official from the PGC or anecdotal localized hunter reports? Opinions by deer processors whi like lots of deer so they make money. Do the numbers lie? Dont the pgc check in with them? |
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Post by turkeykiller on Dec 4, 2019 15:56:00 GMT -5
Is this something official from the PGC or anecdotal localized hunter reports? Sounds like factual info from deer prosesseors. |
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Post by jmorgan on Dec 4, 2019 17:01:11 GMT -5
Is this something official from the PGC or anecdotal localized hunter reports? . Do the numbers lie? Dont the pgc check in with them? 2 processors??? LOL |
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Post by redarrow on Dec 4, 2019 17:04:29 GMT -5
Is this something official from the PGC or anecdotal localized hunter reports? Opinions by deer processors whi like lots of deer so they make money. Do the numbers lie? Dont the pgc check in with them? Kinda funny you mention deer processors. Talking to a guy who has a bunch of buddies come out to his place to hunt. One took his buck to a processor Saturday and when he found out they charged 75$, he gave the deer away and he said they won't be using the doe tags unless they can find somebody who wants their deer. I don't blame any casual hunter for giving it up if he does like venison much and doesn't do his own butchering. I wonder how many of them we have lost. A dad and his kid killing a couple deer apiece would get pretty steep for a lot of guys at Christmas time. What do you non-butchers pay in your area? |
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Post by jmorgan on Dec 4, 2019 17:08:43 GMT -5
Opinions by deer processors whi like lots of deer so they make money. Do the numbers lie? Dont the pgc check in with them? Kinda funny you mention deer processors. Talking to a guy who has a bunch of buddies come out to his place to hunt. One took his buck to a processor Saturday and when he found out they charged 75$, he gave the deer away and he said they won't be using the doe tags unless they can find somebody who wants their deer. I don't blame any casual hunter for giving it up if he does like venison much and doesn't do his own butchering. I wonder how many of them we have lost. A dad and his kid killing a couple deer apiece would get pretty steep for a lot of guys at Christmas time. What do you non-butchers pay in your area? |
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Post by turkeykiller on Dec 4, 2019 17:09:25 GMT -5
Opinions by deer processors whi like lots of deer so they make money. Do the numbers lie? Dont the pgc check in with them? 2 processors??? LOL Yep, one was down 50 percent from last year, another only had 6 instead of 60 to 70. Pretty drastic. The funny part is, for years the PGC used harvest report cards AND Wardens checkin shops to estimate the harvest. Since these numbers are low, now you question the process. As far as only 2 processors, from what I've read on here, only 2 say the turnout was better. |
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Post by jmorgan on Dec 4, 2019 17:11:29 GMT -5
And mine are turning deer away???
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Post by turkeykiller on Dec 4, 2019 17:13:28 GMT -5
Kinda funny you mention deer processors. Talking to a guy who has a bunch of buddies come out to his place to hunt. One took his buck to a processor Saturday and when he found out they charged 75$, he gave the deer away and he said they won't be using the doe tags unless they can find somebody who wants their deer. I don't blame any casual hunter for giving it up if he does like venison much and doesn't do his own butchering. I wonder how many of them we have lost. A dad and his kid killing a couple deer apiece would get pretty steep for a lot of guys at Christmas time. What do you non-butchers pay in your area?I thought if you were a non- butcher, that meant you to it to somebody to do it. How can it be zero? |
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Post by turkeykiller on Dec 4, 2019 17:15:30 GMT -5
And mine are turning deer away??? Maybe you should contact the news media, that doesn't seem to be the case with these two. Just curious, do you work for the PGC? |
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Post by jmorgan on Dec 4, 2019 17:15:58 GMT -5
TK, go to bed, get some rest and you won't be so un-happy in the AM
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Post by turkeykiller on Dec 4, 2019 17:17:46 GMT -5
TK, go to bed, get some rest and you won't be so un-happy in the AM I'm feeling fine, sorry if I hurt your feelings. |
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Post by redarrow on Dec 4, 2019 17:34:30 GMT -5
I would not pay anywhere near $75 to have a deer processed. The guys who have to take a rifle shot fawn or even an adult deer to a butcher shop might better buy beef and spend their hunting time chasing small game.
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Post by turkeykiller on Dec 4, 2019 17:56:37 GMT -5
I know guys who have their whole deer made into processed sticks and baloney. Over $200
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Post by themaninorange on Dec 4, 2019 18:17:58 GMT -5
I butcher my own but if I fill any Doe tags I may be tempted to go to a butcher and pay the damage. It's just a lot of work and I have a full time job
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Post by jj103 on Dec 4, 2019 19:25:27 GMT -5
Turn out was very low in this area. Still don’t understand why doe tags can’t be filled the first week. We don’t need a low kill around here. Crop damage is bad enough already
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Post by TPlank on Dec 4, 2019 19:59:52 GMT -5
Taxidermist friend is on a record pace for deer brought in just for archery. Haven't talked to him yet since regular season started.
My guess, the harvest will be more spread out. People saving vacation days and only hunting the same Saturdays. What I'm doing. Office is closed between holidays though too and I love hunting the late season too so no need to take days off.
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Post by Dutch on Dec 5, 2019 6:11:33 GMT -5
Turn out was very low in this area. Still don’t understand why doe tags can’t be filled the first week. We don’t need a low kill around here. Crop damage is bad enough already You have DMAP. If you open the first week, then you end up with an over harvest on the public ground, just to get at a few does on private. That is what is happening in my unit. Northern part is farms, southern is big woods. Big woods is over harvested, farms only allow friends and family, then complain too many deer? Heck, Denny, just north of me 8 miles takes a drive around his block and sees 80 deer. Not even close to the case in my area |
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Post by robinpa on Dec 5, 2019 6:35:19 GMT -5
I really have to wonder if the farmers that complain of crop damage Dmap there property and open it to hunting , if they dont they really should not complain. JMO
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Post by redarrow on Dec 5, 2019 6:37:24 GMT -5
It's the same with timber companies who demand a higher doe harvest yet lease there land to deer hunters.
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Post by redarrow on Dec 5, 2019 6:41:00 GMT -5
Turn out was very low in this area. Still don’t understand why doe tags can’t be filled the first week. We don’t need a low kill around here. Crop damage is bad enough already You have DMAP. If you open the first week, then you end up with an over harvest on the public ground, just to get at a few does on private. That is what is happening in my unit. Northern part is farms, southern is big woods. Big woods is over harvested, farms only allow friends and family, then complain too many deer? Heck, Denny, just north of me 8 miles takes a drive around his block and sees 80 deer. Not even close to the case in my area It sounds as though there are plenty of deer on your lease Dutch. Maybe not overpopulated, but if most of you saw multiple bucks the population must be at least as good as most places in the state. |
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Post by Dutch on Dec 5, 2019 7:30:07 GMT -5
You have DMAP. If you open the first week, then you end up with an over harvest on the public ground, just to get at a few does on private. That is what is happening in my unit. Northern part is farms, southern is big woods. Big woods is over harvested, farms only allow friends and family, then complain too many deer? Heck, Denny, just north of me 8 miles takes a drive around his block and sees 80 deer. Not even close to the case in my area It sounds as though there are plenty of deer on your lease Dutch. Maybe not overpopulated, but if most of you saw multiple bucks the population must be at least as good as most places in the state. Uh, and you'd be wrong. I showed our trail cam pics to the young man hunting with us, he said, you have a doe problem, you barely have any. And yet again, someone who has never set foot on a property is telling me how many deer I have. SMH. |
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