Well, I will say that I never have shot more than one or two does in a season. And neither have the folks in our club. And probably not the folks around us. As a matter of fact, i don't know anybody that waylays does the way some of ya'll are making it sound. Maybe I just run in the wrong circles.

If anything, I think my property has too many does. We always get four to five does on camera for every buck we get. This year I definitely haven't seen the number of does that I've seen in the past, but I saw more once I got out of the shooting houses and started trying to figure out where they were. Turns out they were using natural browse this year and not our food plots. After we changed strategies we saw more does. And as far as the rut, after ten years hunting my place in Dallas county, I've seen the rut occur anywhere from the week after Christmas into early February. If it were up to me I'd move season back a month, but if they don't, I won't be crushed. I still kill a deer or two every year and enjoy getting out there. I see far more than I shoot.

If ya'll want to go back to having three or four doe days a year thats fine by me. Won't affect the way i hunt in the least since I don't usually shoot many anyway. I am amazed though how folks seem to want to make a one size fits all rule based on "what I'm seeing on my place this year." AND wanting the state to regulate it even though the general consensus is that we all want less government and more control over our own lives.

"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."

George Orwell