Post by: Sumpnneedskillin on March 22, 2017, 11:13:32 AM
It was a harsh winter—especially for mule deer.
The Idaho Fish and Game announcing earlier this week that hunters wills see fewer hunting opportunities for mule deer does in the fall. Fish and Game expect the lowest survival of mule deer fawns in 18 years.
By mid march, about 50% of mule deer fawns wearing radio collars have died, and more are expected to die. Fish and Game is responding by reducing the 2017 and 2018 antlerless and either-sex harvest for mule deer. Whitetail and elk are both faring far better.
Post by: WA hunter14 on March 22, 2017, 11:36:41 AM
Post by: lewy on March 22, 2017, 12:36:03 PM
Post by: lord grizzly on March 22, 2017, 01:35:24 PM
fawns took a hit, calves did better and adults seem to have faired well.
Post by: TriggerMike on March 22, 2017, 02:24:39 PM
I've heard from a really good source its 90% fawn mortalityDoes your really good source work for the IDFG?
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Post by: jjhunter on March 22, 2017, 02:30:46 PM
Post by: Duckslayer89 on March 22, 2017, 03:22:29 PM
I don't know how they can say whitetail are doing far better, Im finding so many dead whitetail while horn hunting it's disgusting. Many of them haven't even had a bite taken out of them from anything not even coyotes. They're dropping like flies over here if they aren't next to town where people feed them. About half of the dead deer I'm finding are yearlings and the other half are almost all bucks that shed their antlers and sometime after just laid down and died.
Ya I expect them to keep the any deer tag for the whitetail to. Would really like to see it go to any buck