Whitetail doe season... is it time to take end it?

[limit time]

No! now you just set yourself up for a world of hurt! you won't get away with calling them rrrr....
the r word.......they have feelings too

Unless they identify ?

[hunter1947]

Never have liked female GOS on any game animals period..

[hunter1947]

Never have liked female GOS on any game animals period never have shot the female species but that's my choice....

[280 77]

I don't target does when hunting but if I come across one I may shoot it for meat and to slow the invasion down . In my neck of the woods there are a couple of places that I used to see wt does quite often . A year after the wt doe season opened up i would see very few during hunting season . I started thinking holy s..t it didn't take long to get rid of them . fast forward to late February and guess what , they magically re-appeared . Now after a few seasons they are definitely more evasive all year long , but they've learnt quickly and are still there , you just have to look a little harder.

[Wild one]

I think they should open the season for these coarse deer even more!! Its our muleys that are in trouble in places.

Yes the management plan of kill WT to increase MD numbers worked so well it was abandoned in Alberta lol

I know this koolaid was pushed hard in BC

declining mule deer are do to other issues

[Ourea]

I don't target does when hunting but if I come across one I may shoot it for meat and to slow the invasion down . In my neck of the woods there are a couple of places that I used to see wt does quite often . A year after the wt doe season opened up i would see very few during hunting season . I started thinking holy s..t it didn't take long to get rid of them . fast forward to late February and guess what , they magically re-appeared . Now after a few seasons they are definitely more evasive all year long , but they've learnt quickly and are still there , you just have to look a little harder.

What?
The most studied ungulate in North America that keeps expanding their range and out competing all their competitors regardless of environment. How is that possible?
kidding aside.
They adapt, they survive, it's what they do.

[Everett]

Never have liked female GOS on any game animals period never have shot the female species but that's my choice....

Sorry Wayne but your opinion is wrong and its not to late to educate yourself to the ways of sound game management I expect to see a picture of you next year with a 200lb doe

[Everett]

Yes the management plan of kill WT to increase MD numbers worked so well it was abandoned in Alberta lol

I know this koolaid was pushed hard in BC

declining mule deer are do to other issues

Actually mule deer are responding nicely to the reduction in WT deer in the east kootenays and numbers are on upswing for mule deer.

[Wild one]

Actually mule deer are responding nicely to the reduction in WT deer in the east kootenays and numbers are on upswing for mule deer.

I ? If that is the reason for MD improvement

It was run in Alberta even more of a liberal WT harvest combined with restricted MD harvest and it fails miserably. MU 339 ran ran a WT season of 2 doe tags combined with 3rd tag that could be used buck or doe season ran mid September to end of November. Lowered WT numbers did nothing for MD. Was run in other MUs I am less familiar with and abandoned again do to poor results. Ran way longer then BCs wt doe seasons existence

This really makes me wonder what other factors could be at play in the east koots

[scoutlt1]

A link for some light reading...


http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/fw/wildlife...rov_review.pdf