[RiverWader]

I am all for the extra weekend , Im going to take the oppertunity to take the wife out and get her first deer , she doesnt like going out during reg. season , to many people she says . Plus its a chance to knock the Doe population down a few notches.

 

[Toxic]

I can tell you from hunting in northeast Ohio, after the second day on private land you will hardly see another hunter. Public of course is another subject. I agree with having a second season. Like stated before, some people cannot get the days off from work to go. Second, the most important "the kids" I remember growing up and having to take off school to go hunting. Now the kids who we need out there, can get another opportunity to hunt. We are losing our ranks to Nintendo’s and other dumb stuff. The extra days are not going to hurt the population. With the 3 deer limit and all the urban tags you can buy we won’t even put a dent in it. I may be full of BS but that's what I believe

 

[Lundy]

Any change in the rules that allows additional days hunting is all good in my mind. The increase, decrease or the kill staying the same doesn't really matter to me or most hunters I would think, it's all about the opportunity to just go hunting.

I hunt all 7 days of the gun season and all 4 days of the MZ season and will hunt both days of this extra weekend, but it won't effect my harvest total for the year. My groups total harvest will be the same each year whether we would hunt a few days a year or 13 days like this year. We only kill the number of deer for each family that we can eat.

 

[Guest]

Wow...Can't believe I'm the only one who is opposed to the extra gun weekend

Your not. I wont make this lengthy jsut to save argument from the experts on here, but I am 100% against it. Not that it really matters though. Despite what some will say, I think it really will effect the population. Around here there is mainly small scattered woodlots. People do deer drives and deer run from one woods to the next. What they dont shoot the people in the next woods will. I think its just 2 more days for the crazies to get out there and shoot whatever moves. But anyhow I bet the Dnr will love it, more pockets full of cash. This is just my opionion, ok.

 

[swantucky]

I can't believe it but I agree with traphunter.lol We have the same type of woodlots in NW Ohio that he speaks of. I know the Saturday of gun season is a zoo!!! I'm really not too thrilled about giving the less than ethical hunters 2 more days to tresspass, chase deer with trucks, and generally do whatever the heck they want. I think there will be quite a few more deer taken but I could be wrong.

I am all for giving people more oppurtunities to hunt but I just have seen some pretty low-down stuff go on durning gun season. I am sure that in some parts of the state the extra time will help control the does and probably have a positive effect on the herd but I don't think its gonna be too good for this part of the state.

 

[bkr43050]

Perhaps the point was overlooked that the last time they gave more than a week of gun season (11 years ago) they actually gave a whole extra week. That is twice the time. And the result was that the deer kill for that year went down from the prior year. When they went back to the current format again the numbers continued to grow slightly each year. I think that speaks volumes for the minimal impact the additional two days will have on the overall harvest results. As for the crazies and what they may do in certain areas that behavior can and most likely does go on every day of the slug season. I really don't think it is going to provoke them to do snything they would not have done otherwise. And if they are doing anything illegal report them!!

 

[ezbite]

BRING IT ON!!!!more dead deer in my freezer the better i eat..nothing better than surf & turf.,grilled venison back strap & broiled lake erie walleye.. oh yea..oh yea......

:! + :B =

cant eat the antlers..

 

[Guest]

Thats exactly right swantucky. I agree, some parts of the state probably do need more herd control. In that case they should maybe open a special "doe only" season in those small areas. But in most parts of the state, including mine, the herd in definatly in check, actually quite low. I know people on here will argue untill they are blue in the face about this, but untill you hunted in this area, dont act like you know they are over populated. Come hunt and drive this area for a weekend and you will see what I mean.

 

[RiverWader]

It would be fine too if they made the extra weekend a does only thing , down here where I live we have tons of public land that not many people hunt anymore and the deer are gettin outta hand.

 

[lg_mouth]

Thanks for the responses. I assumed there would be more against it than there are. I am mainly a bowhunter and of course, most bowhunters I talk to are against it, for reasons already mentioned like crazies in the woods, trespassing, deer drives, etc. Bowhunting late season is probably my favorite time to get out and with two extra days to blast away at the deer (speaking about Meigs Co. of course) just makes them even more skiddish than they already are in late season.

lg_mouth

 

[bkr43050]

Lg_mouth,

That ain't late-season. Late season doesn't hit until over a month later.

At least around my area the deer settle back in to a pretty steady activity within a few days of the season so I don't suspect that it will hurt the activity much in my area expecially since I think those last 2 days will be less busy with hunters.

 

[lg_mouth]

..January as late season, but as usual, what I type out and what I really mean rarely go together!

I know this is a little off subject, but how bad are poachers in your areas? I personally have never witnessed anybody poaching, but I do hear an awful lot about it. In early bow season last year, I found a headless deer. The body was not that big, so I couldn't imagine the rack was all that nice, but I guess it was to the poacher.

lg_mouth

 

[RiverWader]

LG Mouth, I used to do alot of hunting in Meigs Co.. Theres some nice bucks down that way.

 

[Weekender#1]

Now in the last 2 week season that was 11 years ago, I believe the limit per person was 1 deer per year and 2 in Southern counties so the harvest was spread out over 2 weeks rather than in one. Now the limit is 3 deer and I would guess that over 50% of the hunters do not get their 2nd or 3rd deer. Now with the extra time in conjunction with the expanded limit of animals there will be more taken, a lot more. But we will see.
You that are against this are just selfish and want the animals to yourself but there has been a explosion in the deer population around here. I don't want to see the number drop because I am selfish also.
Kind of like close the rivers in the spring walleye run so the boat guys can catch more in the summer on the lake.

 

[lg_mouth]

We have a lot of QDM going on around here and the bucks are just getting better. But, we also have a lot "it's brown, it's down" mentality, poaching, having every freakin member of your family tagging deer in, etc. So, it is by no means a trophy haven, but if you know the right people and can get in on some good land, you never know how big of a buck may walk out in front of you!

lg_mouth

 

[bkr43050]

The deer harvest numbers prior to 1990 compared to now indicate that we are not coming anywhere close to depleting our resource. The state has progressively become more and more liberal with the bag limits and nowhere along the course of those 15+ years has the totals indicated that we have gone too far. In fact the harvest totals now are consistently more than double the numbers from prior to 1990. The key here is sonsistency. That indicates that the population is not declining. Granted you may be able to overharvest for a year or two (theoretically) but the numbers would begin to show it and they have not. Here is a good link to the year-by-year totals since the inception of the deer hunting in Ohio. (Page 9 has the totals)

Summary of 2005-2006 Deer Seasons

 

[RiverWader]

I used to hunt down there in Meigs Co. on Jack Irvins land , but havent been down there in a few years

 

[lg_mouth]

Name doesn't ring a bell. I hunt in the Racine area.

lg_mouth

 

[BassBlaster]

I am glad to have the extra days. I just started a new job this year and have no vacation to take. By the way...why is it that the people that only bow hunt believe that all gun hunters are morons? I bow hunt and will admit that is by far my favorite method of hunting even though I have not taken my first bow kill but I also gun hunt and I always feel like gun hunters are looked down upon by the die hard bowhunters and even the muzzle loader guys. I agree that there are alot of morons out there that only hunt during the gun season and probably shouldn't even be aloud to own the gun their using but for the most part there are alot more of us good guys and I think we deserve the same respect as anyone else.

 

[swantucky]

I hope you guys don't think I was getting down on all gun hunters, that was not my intent. I gunhunt myself, I take my kids with me every year, one gets opening day of gun and one gets the 1st day of muzzle season. I have no problem with most gun hunters but there are groups of guys that hunt in my and surronding counties that have no respect for the land or the deer. I just don't see the sport in haveing 5 trucks surrond a 25 acre woodlot with 6 guys pushing and 6 guys sitting on the other end. Then you have the guys in the trucks watching where any deer that do make out and relaying to the others where they went and doing the same agian. Not hunting in my book.