When they passed the 3 buck limit, one of the committee members said it was a "good beginning."
True, Poorcountrypreacher. The deer study committee considered going to a 1-buck limit but believed that would be too drastic and also a 2-buck limit, and settled on 3 with the "two of your choice, one with an antler restriction" currently in place.
And yet there was still some of the "no one needs more than one buck a year" BS that no doubt will come up again when in the view of some the buck limit should be lowered. If that's biologically necessary and proven to be necessary, fine. If not and it's just a trophy mentality, hopefully there will be enough Joe Average Hunter folks to blunt the desire to impose more restrictions solely done to grow big antlers.
There would be no need for the drastic change in buck limits if the State hadn't went hog wild with doe killing. When you could basically shoot as many bucks and does as you wanted the buck to doe ratio did not improve. All you ended up with was a smaller still skewed deer herd hence the buck limits...
