The 2014 HBC White Tail Doe Harvest Cencus

[Salty]

It seems changes to hunting regulations be it increase or decrease in harvest always generates a lot of thoughts and theories especially when the hunting seems to get a little tougher Witness, the relatively new white tail doe general open season in portions of region 8 and 4.

So being as the government isn't doing a lot of numbers tracking any more I thought we could maybe take a stab at this only somewhat scientific 'cencus'. Simply, please post here if you hunted white tail does this season; roughly where it was (MU, near a town x etc.) and how many you and your group harvested if any.

I'll start, two days around Vernon while the doe season was open admittedly not targeting does but might have popped one if it was a gimme - zero doe harvest. We saw roughly a dozen in huntable areas.

Please share any results you may have on this

[Stone Sheep Steve]

The Gov't still gets their data through the hunter survey.

No does taken in our household this year.

SSS

[doubled]

No doe taken, saw prob over 200 during the season.

[coach]

No doe for my family either.. Saw similar numbers to what Doubled said.. In fact I saw about 20 more this morning.

[Fisher-Dude]

Region 4, hunted 6 days, I killed 1, GF killed 1, saw 200 maybe more. Could have killed many. It was fun to "hunt" for the perfect setup for my newbie to hunting GF to make the perfect shot. I also shot a buck on that same hunt.

[Salty]

The Gov't still gets their data through the hunter survey.

No does taken in our household this year.

SSS

I've been mailed hunter survey questionnaires in the past but nothing for 3 or 4 years

Thanks for posting your findings so far hunters, hopefully we'll get lots more it would be interesting to see what a sampling here shows.

[budismyhorse]

This should be interesting.......hopefully there may even be some truth to the horror stories about camps in the east koots with 20 people and 40 does hanging in trees........just heard that this morning. somehow I doubt that but anything is possible!

I didn't hunt does this year but saw plenty during the season. always see 6-10 per day. Usually driving in and out of areas.

[whognu]

whitey info
region 8-1 (heavily hunted area)
80%+ of time spent hunting in the timber (as opposed to road hunting-which is fine yet i need the exercise----in a bad way)
2 of us; 2 hunts (oct 12 - 16; nov 26-2 2 does, 2 bucks
maybe saw 20 does, 5 bucks; about same as past 5 years
shot a few grouse; had some nice fires; drank a few cold ones; had a few rummers
A-1 all around
whognu

[boxhitch]

I've been mailed hunter survey questionnaires in the past but nothing for 3 or 4 years

Its random , like the leh. Get the feeling you can't win ? )

Held out for wt bow , but not getting the time in so far.

[Salty]

Its random , like the leh.

With my luck sounds like I won't be doing one any time soon in that case