Originally Posted By: BSK
Originally Posted By: eskimo270
But with 200,000+ plus licensed hunters and maybe that many more unlicensed who can kill 3 a season,and following their same line of thinking, is this not also biologically unsound?


What can be killed, and what actually is killed are often two very different things. TN has 200,000+ hunters also, and a 3 buck limit, yet only 1 in 3 hunters kills even one buck, and only 2-3% kill 3 bucks.

Many TN hunters believe absolutely that everyone but themselves is slaughtering young bucks. But the reality is very different. Our harvested buck age structure keeps slowly improving year after year, and most of that improvement is due to education and voluntary restraint of the hunters, not the buck limit.

Been waiting on someone to make that point,took a guy from Tn. Several keep spouting about loosing the right to kill a buck a day (100+) in Alabama. I know some real killers that got in the twenties but never heard of anyone getting the limit. Some of those twenties guys grew up, a few are still killing them.
Charles Kelly built Alabamas herd on "a buck a day", does are sacred. Time to move on.


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