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yikes you are brave to post this here. and pro boards new england chat you may want to also check out and post this on.
Would love to see better incentives for keeping private land open!
Not to sound naive, but what exactly happened in the GMNF? I haven't heard much about this topic.
agreed; some species do; but not the deer that we all love to watch and hunt.
I attended the F&W meeting at Kehoe conservation camp last year and we never more embarrassed to be associated with that group of so called hunters, the majority that were so clueless on deer management and habitat.. I hunt all the season.. (1) I am for a early muzzle loader it makes perfect sense not to have breeding bucks waste their energy on deer that will be harvested in 2 weeks.. (2) I am for having the bow season run from Oct. 1 to the end of Muzzle loader NON STOP! sucks that we have to get out of the stands when the rut starts to kick in.. (3) I am for the increase of antler restrictions to 3 pnts on one side to bump up our mature bucks to mature doe ratio to help ensure these doe get bread the first time around for early fawn drop along with increased rut activity (4) I am for returning to a 1 Buck a year.. there is incredible hunting pressure on these buck (5) I am all for the Doe harvest as we are doing now and stop listening to the cry babies.. we have poor winter habitat in the state and we can't have the number of deer running around in the woods that most of these old Vermonter think we should.. (6) and I am all for getting the GMNF off their A#$ and log our forests, but their hands are tied because all the lazy whiners don't go out and support them i was at the rutland 10 year planning meetings 3 years ago and this meeting was full of tree huggers and there were only 4 of us hunters there, so unless that ever changes you will most likely never see another tree cut in our national forests... (7) Be thankfull the F&W manages our WMA and actively logs them they are not tooting their own horns because they don't want the problems the Forest department got, so the harvest timber and improve the habitat in a hush hush fashion so just know that they are doing a great job... also if you have access to land yours, your neighbors get your chain saw and pruning poles and get out there this winter and help make it better ,, drop some brows , open around some apple trees, plant some food plots if your able to.. I am always around on here if anyone has questions on how to do things.. ok guess I better get off my soap box sorry Nick ya got me started LOL.... BE SAFE THIS YEAR ON THE ICE AND HOPE TO SEE FOLKS IN THE BAIT SHOP FROM HERE SPEAK UP WHEN YOUR THERE ... THANK BRIAN WHB&T
money could go anywhere. any department. how about to the unemployment department? just saying. harvesting trees is good for a forest and regeneration. Yes people like it undisturbed. well 70 years from now theres no new growth, nothing but huge canopies and falling trees everywhere. thatll be nice to look at. by not cutting anything your ruining future generations from enjoying it.
I didn't say anything about wheelers; but what if the guy on the wheeler is 70 years old or even handicapped?
Wow azzlevt you have some strong feelings huh? I for one like the antler restrictions, think they are working great. I wouldn't want to go back to the "old days". But that's just my opinion. I personally would rather bow hunt then rifle hunt myself. Its more of a rush to have deer within 20 yards of you then it is riding around in a truck hoping to find a legal buck crossing in a corn field somewhere. I am not saying that's how you hunt, but most of the people who cry about the antler restrictions are that type of hunter. I saw way fewer deer this year then a normal year, but like most people I blame it on the late snow last year not on the antler restrictions.
I haven't seen bigger deer! just more spike horn's! I like deer within 20yds myself with my hand gun. so when i close one eye they don't disappear! lol That's not how you said i hunt.. but it did come out of your mouth. I didn't see that many deer this year either. horn's don't mean **** too me. I just love venison. but were all different!