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<blockquote data-quote="Bacon" data-source="post: 484094" data-attributes="member: 666">Your right. I have no ambition to eliminate hunting. Here’s the deal though. Everyone is blaming the habitat thing as the main reason for low deer numbers. While that is a factor, hard winters probably kill way more deer than hunters. Doesn’t matter how much crp there is. When we get a nasty winter deer will be dead. I’m talking lots of snow and below zero for weeks at a time. We have had a couple pretty mild winters in a row. I’m guessing there will be more deer around this year in most of the state. Crp in a bad winter does nothing cause whatever cover there is will be level with snow. The other thing is a water source. Deer will congregate in areas they can access water. We had probably 20+ deer in the yard till the middle of January. Then they all left. They had plenty of cover and food but no access to water.The other big reason for low deer in my opinion was the massive number of doe permits that were given out several years ago. Whoever came up with that plan was a moron. If I sold most of my cows and only had bulls around it wouldn’t make much sense would it to complain I wasn’t getting as many calves. You don’t get rid of the factory.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bacon, post: 484094, member: 666"] Your right. I have no ambition to eliminate hunting. Here’s the deal though. Everyone is blaming the habitat thing as the main reason for low deer numbers. While that is a factor, hard winters probably kill way more deer than hunters. Doesn’t matter how much crp there is. When we get a nasty winter deer will be dead. I’m talking lots of snow and below zero for weeks at a time. We have had a couple pretty mild winters in a row. I’m guessing there will be more deer around this year in most of the state. Crp in a bad winter does nothing cause whatever cover there is will be level with snow. The other thing is a water source. Deer will congregate in areas they can access water. We had probably 20+ deer in the yard till the middle of January. Then they all left. They had plenty of cover and food but no access to water. The other big reason for low deer in my opinion was the massive number of doe permits that were given out several years ago. Whoever came up with that plan was a moron. If I sold most of my cows and only had bulls around it wouldn’t make much sense would it to complain I wasn’t getting as many calves. You don’t get rid of the factory. [/QUOTE]

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