so your saying that passing on the buck that had no interest in the doe and shooting the bigger buck that was attempting to breed the doe, is the answer to a better/healthier herd? 4point, 8 point, makes no difference to me. i tie my tag to venison not my ego.
As I said the mature buck is my most memorable, not the one that tasted the best!
Upstate, first off its illegal to shoot from a boat in NY you should know that "Mr Hunter Education instructor"
Upstate,As usual you are wrong again on many accounts. Again I do not care if a hunter wants to take a immature buck that is an individual choice. Youth hunters should be able to fill their tags with any deer, any season, as long as they follow the seasons bow, gun ect. What I cant stand is the whiners that think the state is going to take food out of their mouths by enforcing an antler restriction.Three points on one side isn't going to eliminate a lot of bucks from the hit list, but it could/will help.We already have an antler restriction, they just want to change the minium. Reasearch the habit of the whitetail? I know you will find fault with this, but I am heading to three different public hunting areas today to check about thirty trail cams, I volunteer my time and equipment and report the numbers of fawns, as well as buck and doe populations in the areas to to wildlife mngmt. What do you do? Oh yes tell everyone about how you rub elbows with politicians BS, who is the elitist here? I have spent over 100 days each year for the last three years in the off season working with wildlife mngmt. donating my time and equipment, at no cost to the state, what are you doing agian? Seems maybe my knowlege of the whitetail to some is a little better than yours.Since you are so good at picking apart everything I say, note the comment "her fawn will be hearty and healthy." really ? Pick up a book learn about whitail habits, assuming the does I saw were mature which the were, most mature does have two fawns, 1 yr olds mostly have 1 fawn. I know its a technicality but from someone as knowledge and opinionated as you get it right.I can look back to an earlier post where you said "Smallest buck I have shot in the last 5 years is a 130" 8 point" that must have been braggin! The deer and bear I listed were all taken in NY on public hunting grounds.Although I didn't spell it out, lets see this is a forum under "NY State hunting" and I did say they were taken on public hunting grounds. Are you having trouble putting that together still? So what are you questioning? You wrote about not seeing a lot of deer on your state lands. Yet then complain if a guy in the same boat shoots a younger deer when he sees it. Seems you have deep set ideas how you are right, and no one, even the state will convince you otherwiseWrong again first off its illegal to shoot from a boat in NY you should know that "Mr Hunter Education instructor" Second Im not complaining about the antler restrictions try to follow, Im for what the state is saying I also believe more does need to be harvested. Stop all the crying that "I had to pass on a 4 point today, how will I ever feed my family this year." You are big boys wait for a six point, dont be in such a hurry to get home for football.