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4 Pt or better NE Wa. Whitetail units

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h20hunter:
maybe someone can educate me on this. why would they have offered so many doe tags (one that I had and punched) in the area if all of a sudden it is all about antler restrictions and herd growth. i agree that if you want more deer with bigger racks you would push predator control, limit doe harvest, and implement point restrictions as well. Seems to me all three would increase the odds of a legal 3 or 4 point buck by increasing the number of bucks born per year. any ideas?

winshooter88:
According to what the groups from the NE corner are saying the herd up there has been hit hard by two bad winters. They think that antler restrictions would bring the herd back faster. They didn't say they needed more big bucks just so they could hunt them. If you look at this years game regs doe opportunity has been cut back. The game biologists don't believe that antler restrictions will help build the herd faster. Deer, unlike elk aren't a harem type breeding animal so you don't need big bucks to ensure that does are bred each year. You only need big breeding bucks if what you really want is big bucks to hunt. If the people up in the NE corner really want bigger bucks to hunt then that is not a conservation issue, but a social issue.  It all comes down to what they really want to accomplish.

bearpaw:
This may have a chance of passing and it may work well at expediantly recovering our herd. Only by trying it will we know for sure.

TeacherMan:

--- Quote from: bearpaw on April 21, 2010, 06:12:29 PM ---This may have a chance of passing and it may work well at expediantly recovering our herd. Only by trying it will we know for sure.

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