Its not like they said everyone has to run out and shoot a spotted fawn. Shoot whatever legal thing you want and leave everyone else to do the same and I bet we'll all be okay at the end of the season.

how is it a safety issue? No more dangerous than daytime shooting....

Might be safer if everyone was required to wear a small led light on their noggin 😃

I just dont see me killing a spot . I kill a young one from time to time beause I have a lot of them . But I try to do it when they are close enough to where I can see the knob's on the head.

This is exactly the point i was trying to make. EXACTLY.

Actually there is a biological reason to prohibit night hunting. Or I guess you could call it a conservation reason, but that's still biological.

....and what would that be???????

Okay capt obvious. If you insist.
Because deer are primarily nocturnal and must easier to kill at night.

Not true deer are crepuscular.

it's easier to killl fawns than grown bucks, that didn't deter Chuckie....

we have a three buck limit, why not shoot em at night

OK Fred , you baiting the ethic's police now. Lol

Ben Rodgers Lee said one time about killing hens , yes some are going die ever year but how do you know which ones. !!!

Ben Lee was a full blown outlaw.

Bingo.
Just because it's legal doesn't mean you have to do it. Same applies to owning guns, smoking cigarettes, and eating at Applebee's.

Lol

it's no more unethical to shoot deer at night than to shoot spotted fawns. This states conservation dept has gone to hell.

This entire topic boils down to just one thing. Either you want to shoot a spottie or not. I personally would never even consider shooting one, but someone else may want to and now I guess legally they have the right to. I personally dont want to shoot bucks less than 3 or 3.5 years old, but that is my choice.

Biologically, ethically, or morally right or wrong or whether or not it is good for a herd management program is dependent on the particular property. I remember several years ago while turkey hunting at Barbour County WMA the biologists were darting does, and aborting fawns for a research study. Must have been 20 or 30 aborted fawns in the garbage can at the check station that morning. I personally thought it was a waste.

I lost what little respect I had for him when during one of his seminars at the early years of the deer show, he suggested shooting deer with 7&1/2 shot if you were close enough. What a DA. He was fairly entertaining if you discount all his outlaw BS

i honestly think the state has a drive behind it that they want to be able to do tags in the future. in order to do that, theyd need enough evidence to show a thinning deer herd, which would happen if people are in the woods killing 60 pound deer.

to me, if they actually wanted to do that, why not just extend season or do a muzzleloader season at the end of the regular season. theyd get pittman robertson money from the sale of all the new muzzleloaders, and theyd thin the herd

Of course they want a tag system , where you been