More Bucks or More Does?
#11
RE: More Bucks or More Does?
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Sure there is. Each hunter checks in his kill each time, doesn't he? He has a tag No. he reports what he kills (sex.....antlered or not.....BB) and also the number he kills is recorded. They could do it in a second on an excel spreadsheet or any program that would query.
No way to check that stat GMMATT, would be interesting to know though.
#12
RE: More Bucks or More Does?
You can buy multiple doe tags here but only one buck tag. I would bet more does hit the ground here. We don't have to check in deer here. You tag it in the field and take it home.
#15
RE: More Bucks or More Does?
ORIGINAL: Germ
MI more bucks
If you do a quick study, some of the best location states take a higher % of their herd than most. AKA more does than bucks
MI more bucks
If you do a quick study, some of the best location states take a higher % of their herd than most. AKA more does than bucks
The restricted tag isn't bad because it encourages people to shoot too many bucks. Heck, most 2nd buck tags go unfilled. The restricted tag is bad because it encourages people to shoot too many YOUNG bucks.
In Michigan, too many guys (gun hunters especially - sorry but its true) would rather shoot a 1.5 year old buck than a mature doe - just to tell the guys at work they filled their buck tag for the 10th year in a row. It's a badge of honor. Killing does is for sissy's around here. It's too bad, but that's the way it is. It's starting to change SLOWLY.
If we only had one buck tag, guys would think long and hard before blasting the first 1.5 year old basket rack that walks up on their bait pile: "Do I REALLY want to waste my only buck tag on this forkorn? Naw, I'll let it walk and wait for a bigger one..." You get enough guys thinking this way, and Michigan could be just as good as Illinois someday.
As longas the two buck system exists, in which there there is no reason to pass young bucks, we'll be forever known as the spike and forkhorn capital of the USA.
#17
RE: More Bucks or More Does?
Kinda interesting to look at.
2006 Minnesota Harvest (all types):
Adult Male: 105,769
Fawn Male:32,780
Adult Female: 105,434
Fawn Female: 26,795
Bucks: 138,549
Does: 132,229
More bucks taken in MN but a large portion of that is attributed to button bucks. EAB wouldnt eliminate the taking of these deer however as any buck with less than 3 inches of antler is registered as anterless.
Very interesting numbers, especially the number of buck fawns that never see their first rack.
2006 Minnesota Harvest (all types):
Adult Male: 105,769
Fawn Male:32,780
Adult Female: 105,434
Fawn Female: 26,795
Bucks: 138,549
Does: 132,229
More bucks taken in MN but a large portion of that is attributed to button bucks. EAB wouldnt eliminate the taking of these deer however as any buck with less than 3 inches of antler is registered as anterless.
Very interesting numbers, especially the number of buck fawns that never see their first rack.
#18
RE: More Bucks or More Does?
ORIGINAL: Germ
MI more bucks
If you do a quick study, some of the best location states take a higher % of their herd than most. AKA more does than bucks
MI more bucks
If you do a quick study, some of the best location states take a higher % of their herd than most. AKA more does than bucks
#19
RE: More Bucks or More Does?
Im gonna say more does are actually killed, but if you count in the amount of bucks that are mortally wounded and not found they would be about the same bc it seems out here that we get alot of people wounding and not recovering their deer