Deer hunting this year.

This is the first time I've won a doe tag, I've been applying since 1999. Bad day today, my buddy hit one too far back, stopped finding blood after a half-mile, no recovery. Basket racked 6 or 8pnt. Also got pics of several more bucks on the trail camera. 

I would like to go predator hunting.

We have mountain lion and bobcat that keep killing the neighbors livestock.

I haven't looked into it this year, but I know last year, they were practically giving away extra doe tags.

After the initial stamp/tags purchase(which was 2 bucks, and I THINK 3 does), you could purchase extra doe tags for like 5 or 10 bucks.

We have a smidge of an overpopulation problem.

Have doe tag, if it's brown, it's down. 

Wow. that is a pretty messed up set of parameters for taking a deer. Can you get doe permits?

oldsoldier wrote: Scope?, you are a wimp. 45/70 Model 71 at 100m. I don't chase field deer.

Anyone who can't hit a deer in an open field at 100 yards with open sights shouldn't be shooting.

However, I'd like to see you identify antler points at 100-150 yards without optics in medium brush cover in low light. The scope is as necessary as the bullet is in some instances.

I'm headed out again this morning to the same spot.
I'm not a great sportsman by any means, but I flushed three doe out of the area on my way out of the woods. Logic tells me that there's no way that little spike I crossed yesterday is the only buck in the range. Unless he was killed off this season already, there's got to be another one around somewhere.

I've got this morning and Thursday morning as my season, and thursday's iffy with weather coming up. My best chance for payoff is this morning.

Temps feel like 15 degrees this morning. Those of you that want to get into the hobby, mull that over for a few moments.

Never been deer hunting, but I know plenty that do.  I'm going pheasant hunting next Monday.  I enjoy it.  Good exercise.

I've never been hunting. I'd like to go. A deer just took out my sister's car as she was on her way home for Thanksgiving (she's alright, though), costing me a butt-rush emergency trip 7 hours away to go get her.

A lot of places don't have the regulations like my area does- or if they do, they're a bit more relaxed. Doe permits are easier to get, and there's no minimum spike for the bucks.

The regulations are in place to make sure that a local population isn't wiped out, but hunting is still in use to make sure it doesn't explode altogether. There's a balance that needs to be met I guess. I don't really know.

For decades, the area of the Catskills that I'm in was subjected to such over harvesting that they needed to impose the management regulations, which I'm more than happy to abide by. If the law says I can't shoot a spike horn this year, I won't. My beef is that there are people who will, and do. And they're not caught.

Literally everyone I've spoken to today told me "You should have shot it anyway." But what's the point? If I'm taking spikes out of the woods every year, there won't be any of the big ones down the pipeline.

To be honest, I counted this morning as a successful hunt. Had hit antlers been bigger, or I'd been a bigger jerk, I'd have venison on the table. There was no missing at the range he was at, and he was broadside of me twice. I've done so many hunts where the only living things I see are chickadees. To catch sight of 4, and scope one of them. I'm perfectly happy with it.