Originally Posted by CNC
I’m still giving your theory some thought and why I ask the question above but…..

I’m not really focused so much on just this season……The trend line is more important………When the 2 doe per day rule was passed it took a whole decade for change to have its full impact and for the harvest trend line on the graph to go up as we ramped up killing and then back down as opportunities became more limited and hunter attitude began to change…….I’m not sure how long this change is going to take to cycle through……It may take just as long if I’m correct in suspecting why hunters started shooting more does……I just really dont think we have growing herds all over the state though.....

I’ve definitely been to areas where deer herds are not growing. I’ve been to plenty they are too. It’s region, and even site specific. Long term, and I have no idea how long, I believe we will see negative impacts on localized herds from the combination of corn, cams and longer seasons. I don’t like it one bit. It’s become VERY difficult to grow mature deer in places. They’re actually not even present on a landscape scale in many areas. People will eventually respond to that one of two ways. They’ll lose interest entirely or start killing more deer after they throw their hands up and say to heck with trying to manage deer anyways.