The vast majority of the average hunters have limited vacation time.Region 6 and 7 keep coming up as the key talking points.
Why hasn’t the committee come up with separate season structure for those 2 regions?
In regards to region 7 and elk hunting pressure resulting in more mule deer take, majority for r 7 is very limited draw for rifle hunts.
Does anyone really think there will be less young bucks killed in the earlier season? I think it will be opposite and people will be less picky and whack the same forkhorn in October that they would have in November. You could limit tags if you were trying to limit harvest but over all the same young dumb bucks are going to get whacked no matter the season.
Separating the seasons so elk hunters kill less mule deer. Seems like a completely ridiculous logic to me that will have the opposite effect.
If you can’t hunt elk everyone will be hunting deer and focusing solely on deer. If you’re looking for elk you’re likely not hunting the best area for deer as they rarely overlap, even with in the same unit. You can’t possibly think that ‘elk hunters’ won’t be out hunting just as hard for deer during the deer season, do you? I think this is going to result in higher take for deer. And quite honestly, it would benefit me. I’d get to focus solely on deer with out having a valid elk tag in my pocket and there fore I would put myself in places that traditionally hold deer.
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