I'm not taking sides here, Stripe. I think I actually prefer the Alabama laws, which allow a Doe-pocalypse. It's just an interesting contrast because the 2 state's deer numbers are similar and they have very different approaches to likely the same reality. They either have different wildlife goals, or someone is wrong.

Looks like Miss is trying to correct the over-harvest of deer while they still have a viable population. The point of Alabama's liberal doe season was never to hammer the deer population to extinction. The only people who need to take a deer a day are those who are selling them. The intent was to both help keep younger hunters interested in hunting, let them shoot some does outside the old doe season right around Christmas, and to allow folks interested in managing the herd in their area better by having more choice as to which does they shoot. Unfortunately, too many have taken the ability to legally take a doe any day of the season as a personal challenge to shoot every doe they see. Between overharvest and coyotes there is no wonder that some have worsening seasons each year.

Love seeing all the "no one needs ..." comments.

....Especially on the same message board that will flame your azz for questioning why a man making $50,000 a year "needs" a $50,000 truck.

How bout I combine those two thoughts for you guys...

Sell the $50k truck so you'll have more grocery money and then you won't need to hunt all day so you can "feed your family" with the 25 deer you are killing. Start out by either getting a job, a better paying job with more responsibility and/or generally working harder so you can afford that truck AND some groceries.

Alabama is apparently light on productive taxpaying members of society so maybe having a limit on does could be billed as some kind of economic stimulus with a catchy phrase initiative like "get your lazy a$$ back to work Alabama".

So instead of "Go Build Alabama" everyone out there will understand that doesn't mean more shooting houses.

^^^ True ... Nobody needs more shooting houses.

We kill a grand total of zero does on our personal property, with zero government intervention. That's a novel concept.

Same on our property. Hunted there 10+ years. Numbers were low so we didn't shoot does. None. Didn't have to have anyone mandate it, tell us we were evil sumbitches, hold our hands, have rules or regs or policies to be encumbered by. Was just common sense and our decision.

But then you've got two other camps of folks: 1. one camp that doesn't see many does and shoots them when they do, but doesn't want you to shoot any and a much smaller camp #2 that sees dozens and dozens of deer per sit and thinks the whole state is like this and doesn't think there's a problem. At least camp #2 doesn't want to legislate me to death.

No does on public land with a rifle is TOO much regulation in my opinion. I would venture a guess that public land doe harvest makes up a very small percentage ofi the overall harvest in the state. I like the overall deer limit though.

Clem you do realize that common sense ain't real common right?

Too bad my land isn't next to yours I wouldn't think I needed to change anything either. We could both sit at your place with our tinfoil hats on talking about how the gubberment is trying to run our lives.

If you need a tinfoil hat for that idea, common sense might not even be common at your house

Good way to get it corrected in a hurry. I would think that the third year will see a huge increase in deer sightings and hunter enjoyment.

This is also a good way for them to stop the "coast trash" from shooting up every Delta WMA, as has been the squeaky wheel all along. I've personally not seen it, but that's what I read on the interwebs so it has to be true.

EDIT: I don't think all you guys south of HWY84 are coast trash...that's just what the super elite, North of I-20, Mississippi bunch calls y'all.

I only chew on it occasionally but don't wear it.

And to think,, I shoot spikes...

Speak for yourself..... it was a lot of fun to some of us back then

Same on my property, but my neighbors still shoot any and every deer they see which has translated in me also not killing but one buck in 12 years since very few live past 2.5 years

Bigt is movin to Mississippi

I'll stick to worrying about the truck in my driveway and not those of others. Maybe when the central planning committee stops fleecing the hardest working or higher wage earners for succeeding we can stop paying the lazy a$$es for not working. Nothing like a little necessity to stimulate some invention or gumption. Might even work up some frugality in the gub'ment.

Nobody will ever solve anything your all wrong. People shoot what they want when they want, that's all there is to it. The law abiding hunters are the MINORITY by far.