It will be interesting to see the reported numbers in January. But for now, it's kind of irrelevant in setting a baseline. For example - if less does are killed this year compared to last year then there were less doe's to shoot due to excessive harvest in previous years. And if more were harvested than last year, it's due to the new 2 doe's per day rule. Sort of a catch 22.
Not necessarily…….With heavy doe harvests combined with a bumper acorn crop we would expect that the doe harvest will be down this year in some of these counties…..which is what we see happening right now….. it makes sense......What if these counties catch up through the season though and end up at +10% or more.......That should at least make you say hmmmmm that doesn’t really add up…….Maybe there was a catalyst for pushing the harvest higher than what it would have been. Obviously that will be the cost of beef and nothing to do with bag limit changes buuuut…..
