Predictions for deer season 26

[Rut2much]

We could use coyote fur prices to skyrocket for incentive along with talks of a bounty possibly even though I love the damn things more than most..
I'm happy if I can get a chance to draw a buck tag at least every few years (not 5-8 or at all like last year) and/or go call coyotes anytime I choose at the end of the day.

 

[bucksnbears]

We could use coyote fur prices to skyrocket for incentive along with talks of a bounty possibly even though I love the damn things more than most..
I'm happy if I can get a chance to draw a buck tag at least every few years (not 5-8 or at all like last year) and/or go call coyotes anytime I choose at the end of the day.

Yep, fawns are very easy for coyotes to find. The lack of cover for does to seek out to drop fawns keeps getting worse.
Now add bears,wolves,fisher and bobcats into it.

Bottom line, ND is fighting things on several fronts deer wise.

 

[Browneye]

I agree with Bacon. I have been deer hunting for almost 50 years now and have seen the populations before crp, with crp, and after alot of crp has come out. At least in my area I don't think crp has quite the impact alot of you think it does. Winters are the biggest factor and coyotes the other. Aside from the big die off of whitetails from the midgets lol about 5 or 6 years ago I don't notice huge swings in deer populations back and forth. Since I have been hunting the fall of 24 was the least amount of deer at deer season in my lifetime. That winter I personally know of over 50 coyotes that were taken in my small general area. Those are just the ones I know of that were taken Im sure there were more. How much meat does it take to feed 50 coyotes every day 365 days a year? What chance does a fawn have to make it to fall in the face of that kind of predator densities? Last seasons deer numbers were better than the year before but no where near what I would consider average.

 

[Callem'In]

I'm in 3f2. How does it compute that last year they said the numbers were so low that they offered to refund your money for your tag if you were drawn and at the same time sell over the counter extra doe tags?

I question this as well. If I remember correctly, there was like 450-500? left over tags. Any doe and whitetail buck tags. It may have been more.

 

[Kurtr]

Talk to someone in Montana and deer numbers are horrible all the nr coming and shooting the 3 year old Mule deer and elk grounds are crowded and over run with grizzlies and wolves . Wyoming same thing . Idaho same thing. Funny you get the same story from every states residents.