What does everyone think the limit should be overall including season length . I think 2 buck and 2 doe. Season stays the same length but archery only untill January . What say you??

October 1 through Feb. 28

Use your discretion to hunt reasonably and legally

@ Surefire: I say QUIT F8CKING WITH IT. Manage your ground and I'll manage mine.

You and Clem are in agreement

2 bucks and 3ish does would be reasonable to me. Lets be honest. under most circumstances deer is way more expensive to eat, so called meat hunters, are really just hunters that like deer meat and like to hunt, but don't want to pass deer. nothing wrong with that, but they aren't feeding their starving family.

as far as season, I'd love to see it the same length, but bow only, and have a week rifle at thanksgiving and christmas, then maybe a 3 day rifle during january, with a muzzleloader early november.

of course that will never happen.

Pretty much how I feel about it...

Thanksgiving to Valentines day any weapon 3 bucks per season and 1 doe a day.

Bingo. If you feel like your neighbors are having a negative impact on your deer herd, then you're not doing something right.

And I even supported the 3-buck limit. In hindsight, I wish I'd known better.

I'd rather be able to make my own decisions about what I need or want without having someone who thinks "three bucks are enough for anyone" impose more regulations. Or even "one buck is enough for you" ... who are they are they to tell me what I need/want for my property?

I've yet to see a single biologically-proven benefit whatsoever to the population with a 1/2/3-buck limit in any state other than (a) more hunters spending money, (b) more giant bucks, which leads to the first thing. If there is a legitimate biological benefit to the wild free-range population by having more 4- and older-year-old bucks, let's see it. I'd love to see it.

Just let me hunt legally and within what I believe is needed for my property, and leave me the hell alone.

Let's be honest: YOU can already do that IF **you** want to! Leave everyone else alone.

Myself where I hunt I would say go back to "doe season" only shoot does with a rifle between Christmas and the first week of January. Cause where I hunt we don't have deer jumping over your truck when you are going out the gate now don't get me wrong I like to shoot and eat deer but I also like to see deer. Info that I get from Choctaw Monroe Clarke Mobile and Baldwin counties is less deer being seen cause all the does are being shot. And I like the season Oct-25/Feb10. But eventually the 2 does a day and now a doe a day is going to catch up to the Southern part of the state and have an impact on the population.

Deer aren't supposed to be jumping over your truck when you leave the gate, , but yeah, some probably many parts of the State went too crazy for too long with excessive doe harvest. I know I did. And it didn't do squat for the rut in terms of timing (impossible to change) or intensity/visibility. And now there is the coyote factor decimating the fawn crop each year.

So yeah, people have to manage their properties smarter. That means people restrict their doe harvest to less that the State allows where that is needed. At least the new rule of one doe a day vs. 2 a day is a step in the right direction.

Same here.

I din't need my hunting managed to a statewide average.

Dropping to 1 doe/day is hurting some folks.

How is that hurting them? Can't they get on the management program?

I managed my land within state laws but I do not rely on the state to tell me what i need to harvest and what i need to let go. I never agreed with 2 doe a day harvest. I try and manage for the carrying capacity of my land. That may be the reason we see plenty of deer. Big bucks come with age plain and simple.

They shouldn't have to join a state program to manage their property as they see fit.

I never would've guessed this....

yeap !!!!!i don't like it all

from what i've been told on here they'll be a lot that can't get in it . you got to have so many acres .