With seeing the pgc proposals for next year to help with this spread of cwd why not go back to this. I think that would be better then more doe tag allocations. I feel like I’m the only one that misses the two weeks of buck n doe.
I'd love to go back to 2 weeks of concurrent buck and doe statewide.
But I also wouldn't mind either making it 3 weeks, or sliding back another week to get us deeper into December and some colder temperatures...
I would also love to see it go back to the 2 weeks of concurrent buck and doe season. I thought starting doe on the first Saturday of Rifle season was stupid.
I do, I started hunting in 2004 so my first 10 years were with the concurrent rifle season and honestly rifle season hasn’t been the same since. I personally hunt for meat rather than horns so I’d gladly take the extra doe opportunity with a rifle over being forced to only take bucks the first week
I personally believe that the change back to the concurrent season would do far more to bring hunters back to the sport than switching to the Saturday opener.
i would like the two weeks of buck and doe or going back to two weeks of buck and 3 days of doe. either way is OK. i agree with 41magfan, moving opening day to Saturday was STOOOPID.
BUT...on the bright side...i bagged my first deer of the season tonight. i got a nice mature doe on a red tag deer damage farm. made a 221 yard, one shot kill using a set of homemade shooting sticks. hunted over a huge soybean field. farmer was thrilled as much as i am. i have her quartered and in the fridge. off to the processor on monday for some smoked venison.
should book a hunt in South Carolina. very inexpensive. and you can start in August go thru January and use whatever weapon you desire at anytime during the season. they have a "deer season" not a weapon season
South Carolina has 4 game zones. The above is only true in Game Zone 3, although by our standards, the seasons and bag limits are very liberal in the entire state.
I was against the change from the start. At the time, our Biologist were saying the harvest of doe was determined by allocation and not days of the season.
So, why change it to one week buck, one week concurrent?? (Not talking about SRA's...not real sure what they went through?)
i would like the seasons to go back to two weeks of buck and doe. getting young hunters to sit and wait for a buck discourges them whereas if they were able to take a doe it might get them to enjoy hunting more. would also like to get rid of the AR too. its too confusing.
Dont miss it one bit but i think they should make it concurrent in the DMA's if they want the herd thinned out and remove antler restrictions in the DMA's as well. Everyone loved it being concurrent for 2 weeks until guys started only seeing a tail here and there if any deer at all. I agree the Saturday opener was really stupid.
Don't really care either way. I'll just continue to hunt whenever they tell me I can. It WAS nice being able to tag a doe if I chose on the rifle opener, but I still do that hunting a DMAP area. It's all good.
I liked the separated seasons better. Sometimes I'll have doe come by me when they're legal and let them go by in hopes a buck is with them, if I haven't tagged one, then shot at a doe is gone with no buck in tow. My decision of course, you gotta shoot'em when you see'em, but would feel better about not seeing a buck if I was not allowed to shoot a doe. If all that makes sense.
And by the same token if I have to let a buck go by because it's doe only then I can ask him "Where were you all last week?" like he was late for work.
And with that said anymore I'm just happy it's deer season, escaping daily reality deer or no deer.
I agree with quackmaster, except for all the changes every year. I hunted over 56 years and there were no changes year to year like now days. Sure makes it hard to keep up with everything
Personally no... usually it's buck only season for me anyway....if I really wanted to fill a doe tag...I could likely do it in archery, early ML season, or now the Senior season.:smile2:
I miss it too. I miss the days when the camps were mostly occupied the first week, then they went home leaving the woods void of hunters during the second week. Now, there is a trickle crowd for 2 weeks.
As someone else mentioned the herd size is determined by tag allocations ... go back to the concurrent schedule and the tag allocation will get cut and probably dramatically so. Then you'll have guys whining on here about how they didn't get whatever tag it is they wanted. And forget about getting a second round tag someplace other than the special regs areas.
While I may miss the opportunity that first week provides - I don't miss pink envelope game. As it is now - everyone basically gets their first choice in the first round as long as they don't totally drop the ball - Even if you don't pick the right county treasurer or get it in the mail on Friday or remember to drop off the box of donuts to the girls in the office handling the envelopes. This year - I got a 2F in the first round and was able to get a 3A tag for both me and my son in the 2nd round ... There's no way I ever would've gotten that 3A tag with a two week concurrent season. We're going to take advantage of that 3A tag during the early muzzleloader season (which also overlaps with ML bear season).
My own opinion and preference is I'd rather have a couple different tags so I have the opportunity to spend more time in the woods including muzzleloader, archery, rifle, and flintlock season.
nope...wouldnt happen. it doesnt happen in other states, it wont happen here. those deer would go almost nocturnal, the kill would drop as the season progresses like it does now. deer hide so good we walk right past them.
Yeah right!!! Driving the deer it doesn’t matter if they are nocturnal or not! The reason there is no longer concurrent 2 weeks is because how effective it was. I guess the deer got smarter now and can hide better now.
The few years of concurrent rifle and many places have still not recovered.
Didn't like it then when it started and wouldn't like it now.
Like 25 Ft.Up said lets go back to the old way. The Rifle season was always referred to as Buck season, not Doe season.
I didn't like full concurrent. I don't like the concurrent DMAPs most of the state forest I hunt now. Weekday doe season obviously makes zero sense also in todays day and age there is 0.0 chance it'll ever go back to that. I guess like the way it currently is out of all the non-radical options. I don't tremendously care either, archery season is the main event and rifle season is mostly a sideshow but I do enjoy the tradition of it.
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