Hey I’m posting this to get feed back on what others think. I bowhunt a woods that is about 100 acres and is hunted by about 10 people its just outside hanover minnesota and I’ve hunted it for about 15 years and before I started hunting it it was drove hard every year by 15-20 gun hunters which would get 10-15 deer at a time. (nothing against gun hunters I’m one myself I just dont agree will clear killing a woods) The woods seem to of never recovered there was at the beggining of the season about 5-10 deer in the woods according to all are trail cams. Now heres the dillema law states we can all shoot five deer so thats 50 deer how can a little woods like this ever recover? if all of us shoot 2-3 deer the woods is cleaned out. and also one of the guys shot 2 does already which left us other guys kinda steamed being there are so few to choose from and were trying to get the woods to come back so we have 3 fawns wandering around which wont make winter which we were hoping on to get the population back. This woods is also supporting a turkey population of about 30 birds which is overpopulated. Now I know deer are over populated in some areas aka housing developments were there being fed yes you will see overpopulation and car kill I have yet to see people sitting on there roofs shooting them. But in these little woods with few deer we cant support that many deer lossed in one year. Does anyone understand my concern? I just want there to be a future for everone. Also the minnesota dnr is horrible in there research. They need to have forced hunts in these urban areas. Otherwise no one will let you hunt there property clear killing the woods does nothing to car kill in urban areas. What do others think on this?
October 16, 2006 at 7:29 pm
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