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I joined aldeer in 2003 to argue against buck limits, believing they would open the door to a whole lot more state control of every aspect of hunting without helping the resource at all. It took several years, but the 3 buck limit finally passed. When it did pass, we were killing more does than bucks voluntarily. It didn't require a regulation; people were just convinced it was in their best interest to do so. Now because of the government regulations we are back to killing more bucks than does, but we are only killing half as many deer. I don't see how the hunters or the deer are in any way better off now than they were in 2003, but as I predicted, those pushing buck limits will never be satisfied. In their minds, the problem is that the current buck limit just doesn't go far enough. We just need to reduce it from 3 to 2. Then it will be 2 to 1. Then it will be nobody "needs" to kill a buck every year. So my answer is no.  We've never really had a 3 buck limit in place.......only the suggestion of one......Nobody has ever enforced it Of course they haven't; it's unenforceable and that was one of the reasons I was against it. I've never heard of anyone being prosecuted for exceeding the season limit on deer or turkeys. They get people for paperwork problems, but never for actually exceeding the limit. I hate unenforceable laws. Only the suckers like me will follow them. Still, the buck limit had a big effect on the deer harvest. We were killing about 50-50 does/bucks with a few more does. The first year the buck numbers went way down and the doe numbers way up. Since then it has gradually equalized so that we now kill more bucks again, but the overall number of deer killed is way down. So how are the hunters or the deer any better off than they were before? And yet people believe even more regulations are the answer? It looks to me like we were far better off with the old system, but no chance of going back to it. The dcnr is making too much money to change it back.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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