Recent content by southernutahhunter

Every unit that added tags should have held off at least another year to see where we stand in November.

That is why I would like to see a few units opened up for complete opportunity. Let’s see if we kill off the bucks if that helps the deer herd grow. Sell over the counter tags and let as many as want have the opportunity.

Nope the trend now is to shoot every small buck alive because tomorrow they could die. Why won’t they just open up two or three central units and sell tags over the counter. There will still be enough bucks and let hunters have all the opportunity they want.

Back 15 years ago I was seeing 4-5 nice bucks I would hunt for in an area I hunt. I was also seeing a lot more deer in general. Numbers were much higher. More deer equal more bucks with chance of more mature bucks. Less deer like we see now equals less bucks and these are all small bucks...

Shut down a couple units for 3 years and see if deer her grows with zero hunting. Limit the days of all the hunts on a couple units. See if that grows the herd after 3 years. Increase the number of Buck tags on a couple units for 3 years, see if reducing bucks grows the deer herd. Step up...

Sorry I meant quantity

If deer herds increase in quality then buck numbers also grow. Like was said about Colorado. Anything wrong with this?

I think that is the point of his frustration. Nothing has been done other than cut tags and a crap load of studies in the early stages.

The whole problem starts with deer numbers. You, I and every sportsmen who gets out at all knows the deer numbers are in the tank. The deer situation needs to be looked at from the standpoint of having no deer, not 20 bucks per hundred doe.

The bottom line is there are so few deer that we should be hoping for as many deer as we can, bucks or doe. I want to know anyone who went out this past winter and saw the number of bucks to doe as is said on these southern units. I must look for wintering deer in all the wrong places. Not...

But it was said that born even one week later in June can effect how a fawn goes into winter. I have seen numerous herds of doe in late November with no buck in with them.

I totally agree with Nevada sheep. All this data is good but we don’t have deer numbers wise to even think about lowering the buck population. In fact it was mentioned that maybe having more bucks would help breed doe earlier and then fawns would be born earlier giving them a better chance of...

I cover most all of the Beaver unit with several other sportsmen that hunt that unit. There just is not enough deer to justify any tag increase. They may be guessing a good fawn crop but a post deer hunt count of 20.4 bucks per 100 doe is just a terrible estimate. I have been in all those...

The Beaver and west Desert only units the chart shows that are below objective on the 3 year average yet want to increase by 600 tags.

It is not at the top end. 17.5 is still below the bottom end on the 3 year average.