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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TFX 186" data-source="post: 172310" data-attributes="member: 2289">Just a few comments about deer gun season that I have experienced with my boys over the years. I am all for getting the youth involved in all types of hunting when they are mentally and physically able. What Ive seen happen in my house with deer gun season hasn't been a hunter friendly experience. Both my boys received their youth permit to hunt deer when they were 14. We did all the things a guy does to make it successful. Both boys shot nice deer. They were hooked. This is where the problem started for us. It took one of them another 6 years to draw their next tag in our area and the second one got his next tag after applying for 7 years. 14 years old to 20 or 21...So one of the boys bought a deer rifle after his first season and only shot it one season after that and the second one never saw the need to buy one as he knew he wouldn't be drawing for a few years anyway. I can't imagine growing up and not owning a deer rifle and not being able to shoot a deer most every year. I introduced both boys to bow hunting and they both bow hunt deer but don't have too much interest in rifle hunting for deer and I can't blame them. In my family, deer season is no longer a big family get together like it was when I was growing up. Pretty disappointed but not much I can do about it. They are gone from the deer gun sport in ND.PS..... The NDGF (totally) mismanaged the deer numbers in our area! Selling upwards of 6-7 extra doe tags every year and then we had a so so winter kill on a following year. Blamed the low numbers on bad winter when in all reality they oversold tags for the MONEY!! It wasn't about the deer management, it was all about the MONEY !!! And before someone says to just apply somewhere other than the unit where we live, I thought about it and decided that we would maybe be taking a tag from another young hunter who lives in that area and loves to hunt with his family!!!Fish On!</blockquote>

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