IMHO I firmly believe that this was brought on by the major archery companies trying to sell more bows (crossbows). There isn’t much room for advancement in the modern compound bows so people are keeping them much longer. So a good way to sell more bows is make it legal for everyone to use a crossbow so more people will buy them. That being said I don’t much care what you use to kill a deer as long as its legal and ethical. There will always be the people that wouldn’t normally hunt getting on board with it because its new and thats a good thing for hunters in general. I personally went to a recurve with cedar arrows and traditional 2 blade broadheads just to say I did it. To everyone saying that its not fair to use a crossbow because its not a real bow I am assume you are all using a recurve with cedar arrows and hunting in the original wool clothes RIGHT LOL. I hope everyone has a great deer season.

I first wanna say thanks for all the good advice and input from all of you. I have talk to the guy to the north and he knows there are a ton of deer around. His thought is if you shoot a doe you may be taking a future buck out by doing so. I personally think he has watched to many hunting shows with 180 inch deer on a 400 acre farm where they can control most everything that goes on. We owne 250 acres between us it’s not a private ranch where we can controll everything and its not buffalo Co. I am going to plan on shooting a few doe’s this year and see how it goes

I have had the trail cameras out now for a few weeks. I have been getting a lot of pictures. I am not saying I wanna take the population to 1-1 but right now I am somewhere between 1-7 to 1-10 based on the trail cam pics. There is a good amount of Ag land around and plenty of water. Thank you all for your input. So would you guys think its a good idea to take a few doe.

Yes I thought it was 1-1 or 1-2 ratio also on QDM. Do you have any idea why/ what kind of management they are doing were you dont shoot any doe’s. I am all about trying to manage the bucks and shoot quality bucks. I however am also a meat hunter that enjoys shooting doe’s. I dont want to upset the other land owners by taking doe’s but it just doesnt make since to me why you wouldnt take any.

Thats a great looking deer. Congrats

congrats on a great looking deer.

congrats on a nice looking deer. looks like all the hard work and passing on others has paid off huge for you.

Nice looking deer. congrats!!!

Nice looking deer

Congrats to both of you. cant beat hunting with family.

Congrats its a great watching all your hard work and time pay off like that. Good looking pup too.

Nice looking deer congrats.

Congrats on a nice looking deer, hope you can have the same luck.