So what did you do today?

[Bill G]

Franklin County. There are a lot coyotes around, and I’d be hard pressed to kill 55 deer in 2 nights without a lot of work. But maybe the deer population is suppressed more by hunting than coyotes.

What was the total legal "reported" harvest of deer in Franklin County last year during the first 3 day and second 4 day firearm season? Did your county have (2) 3 day doe/button buck road kill seasons later?.....

There is a reason coyotes have a 365 day season. Fing vermin!

 

[EFSM]

What was the total legal "reported" harvest of deer in Franklin County last year during the first 3 day and second 4 day firearm season? Did your county have (2) 3 day doe/button buck road kill seasons later?.....

There is a reason coyotes have a 365 day season. Fing vermin!

First weekend was 761. There was one late antlerless only season.

 

[Bill G]

First weekend was 761. There was one late antlerless only season.

So which species is an issue...deer or coyotes?

In December 1986 on the first day of the second deer season it was -12F. We legally harvested 13 deer. That was in the days of the lottery for paid permits but as a landowner our tags were free without a lottery. No matter what it was one permit... one deer per person with a shotgun. You had 6 days. You had to physically check deer in. Today you can harvest two deer, use a rifle, pistol, or shotgun, never check them in, and you have at least 7 days to do so. In many counties you have 13 days when you add in the two late seasons for button bucks and does.

Folks wonder why they hunt and never even see a deer.....

 

[EFSM]

So which species is an issue...deer or coyotes?

…or humans, especially the out-of-state big city kind that shoots whatever is brown and moves.