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<blockquote data-quote="Parks 788" data-source="post: 2670894" data-attributes="member: 14646"><p>First off, I would hope anyone that hears that comment from a non resident or even a resident hunter would be verbally assaulted for saying they didn't want to go home empty handed. Hunters CAN make the best conservationist and stewards of the land and it's game animals.</p><p></p><p>To your highlighted questions: Obviously I'm not an expert and most here have much more experience than I hunting deer in OK. No matter the state one is hunting in, to me, it seems that to grow great quality older bucks in your population you can't keep killing the small and young bucks in the name of putting food on the table. Do you take a few more does in stead of the fork horn? Do you try to hunt a few more hours or days and attempt to shoot a better, older buck to put food on the table and if an older buck does present a shot you them take what you can to feed the family?IDK. Maybe regulation is not part of the equation but rather education by the hunting community and ODW on how to manage the herd more effectively?</p><p></p><p>Maybe a system where the poor or individuals whom require assistance (if proven) have more discretion on the age/sex of deer taken? Maybe one would have to "get into the head" of a subsistence hunter to find out how they select the deer they do to put food on the table? Knowing how they think compared to the common deer hunter would help formulate new regulations or adjust what is already on the books?</p><p></p><p>Aside from anything else I have said I ask you a question (anyone please answer). Can you effectively manage a deer herd in a given region or state to produce large quality bucks if too many spikes, fork horns and other young bucks are shot every year? My answer would be, no you can't. What say you?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Parks 788, post: 2670894, member: 14646"] First off, I would hope anyone that hears that comment from a non resident or even a resident hunter would be verbally assaulted for saying they didn't want to go home empty handed. Hunters CAN make the best conservationist and stewards of the land and it's game animals. To your highlighted questions: Obviously I'm not an expert and most here have much more experience than I hunting deer in OK. No matter the state one is hunting in, to me, it seems that to grow great quality older bucks in your population you can't keep killing the small and young bucks in the name of putting food on the table. Do you take a few more does in stead of the fork horn? Do you try to hunt a few more hours or days and attempt to shoot a better, older buck to put food on the table and if an older buck does present a shot you them take what you can to feed the family?IDK. Maybe regulation is not part of the equation but rather education by the hunting community and ODW on how to manage the herd more effectively? Maybe a system where the poor or individuals whom require assistance (if proven) have more discretion on the age/sex of deer taken? Maybe one would have to "get into the head" of a subsistence hunter to find out how they select the deer they do to put food on the table? Knowing how they think compared to the common deer hunter would help formulate new regulations or adjust what is already on the books? Aside from anything else I have said I ask you a question (anyone please answer). Can you effectively manage a deer herd in a given region or state to produce large quality bucks if too many spikes, fork horns and other young bucks are shot every year? My answer would be, no you can't. What say you? [/QUOTE]
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