Wisconsin - Doe only weekend

[toddyboman]

Mark, will make sure about those dates for next year....did you want the doe season or not?

yup sounds to me like he wants to come up and shoot one of your Monster DOES!!! :D:D:D

[Randy]

All I know is there is one less doe eating in 67B tonight!! :D

[unioncountyslayer]

NOT, I'm a buck only kind of guy. J/K...

[Zambo]

I am in favor of harvesting does as a management tool. But here in Minnesota they have a doe only gun season in mid October. All this seems to do is educate the deer before the pre rut and chasing period. My favorate time to hunt. This has upset alot of bow hunters in our area. I would like to see them move that season to December as Wisconson has. However if you are a bow hunter you can still shoot a buck at the time of the gun doe season with your archery equipment.

[zippyswamp]

The DNR has told our group that the nine day season and Dec. fest will not keep our deer herd in check, so the Oct. fest will be back.

What chaps me back side, is in our area we could shoot every doe, and being our DMU is so big we would still be in a herd reduction zone.

We are on the far north end of 63B, but the southern part isn't doing their part, and that's right out of the DNR's mouth.

So we do our part and put the does right where they belong, the freezer!

I would much rather put a doe on the ground than a small buck, it's true I'm big buck crazy, and will be the first to tell you that. I've shot enough little bucks in my life, and the feeling isn't nothing like grabbing hold of a big boy.

That's just my own feelings.

So we'll keep doing what we do by trying to hold up our end by shooting doe. And no matter, I don't think we will be able to shoot enough to keep the DNR happy.

I do know the brothers up north, have it rough, there isn't the deer there like what's in the farm belt, but hang in there!

[Ravin R10 man]

zippy..we do have farms up north..and that is where the deer are...outside the farm area the deer herd is really low..and yes I did my part and shot 3 does so far, besides a bow buck

[kraabel2003]

I went out tonight and saw a really nice buck that Im glad I saw, now I just cant wait to see what he is going to be next year. Glad that it was doe only or I would of shot this deer, but he is only 3.5 and now I can look forward to hunting him next year. Im hoping he will go bc next year.

[zippyswamp]

Oneidaman, I didn't mean that everyone didn't do their part. I was mainly talking in our area of 63b.

Where about do you hunt (up north)?

I know up by our cabin in Silver Cliff there isn't any farms, I guess that's what I have allways thought of as up north.

There isn't any deer in that area, I don't know what the DMU is right off hand in that area though, not been hunting there in over 30 years.

I have heard from others that that's the trouble where farm land and public runs togather.

The deer are all on the farm land, and that's a subject I'm not getting into, not knowing much about it.

I'm still going to try and put another doe in the freezer this year with the bow, theres nothing like a good blood trail on snow!! Let the Grim Reaper eat!