Whitetail deer bag limit

[Jakflak71]

Here in Putnam county tn. The bag limit for antlerless dear is 3 per day for the 2024 and 2025 seasons

 

[Macintosh]

And?
Ive never been there, is that enough to keep the herd low enough that oak seedlings regenerate? Is it too many? How long does it take to butcher 3 deer if you assembly-line them? Should we be lining up to come visit?

 

[Nine Banger]

How long does it take to butcher 3 deer if you assembly-line them?

Nose to tail or side to side?

 

[Macintosh]

Nose to tail or side to side?

Probably someone with a 3/day limit should tell us?

 

[NRA4LIFE]

At one point at my place in MO, doe permits were unlimited, maybe late 90's early 2000's. You could just keep shooting them. Problem was processing them. Even with 3 of us we were butchering deer more than were were hunting it seemed.

 

[Macintosh]

Not sure Id want to cut that many deer up! Not in one go, anyway!

 

[Sadie]

What state?

 

[Claybuster]

What state?

Putnam county tn

 

[coyotecreek]

He gone

 

[Rich M]

Too bad. Poof!

 

[Claybuster]

He gone

Too bad. Poof!

Scammer?

 

[Nine Banger]

 

[Jakflak71]

And?
Ive never been there, is that enough to keep the herd low enough that oak seedlings regenerate? Is it too many? How long does it take to butcher 3 deer if you assembly-line them? Should we be lining up to come visit?

I have a friend that did get 3 does in one day, it probably helped that his mom was feeding them! I remember driving by one day and a doe was drinking out of their birdbath! Almost a dog on petting zoo! My friend was going thru chemotherapy for some serious cancer stuff, not looking too good! So I gave him a pass

 

[Pickettpuncher]

I hope it doesn’t hurt the population too bad. I don’t hunt Putnam but do hunt Pickett county and the herd wouldn’t ever survive. Not sure how Overton will do with 3 a day. I do know the limit isn’t a suggestion from Twra and people shouldn’t take it as a daily challenge.

 

[EdP]

Zone 1 counties in Ky are all the does you want. Unless you are the landowner you have to buy bonus tags @ $15 for 2 does after having taken the 4 allowed on your statewide license (or 1 buck and 3 does). The statewide license only allows 1 buck to be taken. That has had a lot to do with how Ky has improved the quality of the deer herds and balanced the buck to doe ratio. Folks just wanting some deer meat tend to shoot the first legal animal to come along, often a doe. Folks wanting to take a nice buck have more opportunity to do so because there are more bucks around, and more older bucks, due to the one buck limit.

The zone 1 counties tend to be where row crops are raised. The corn/bean rotation, and sometimes winter wheat, provides a tremendous amount of forage so there is no shortage of deer.

 

[Jakflak71]

I have a friend that did get 3 does in one day, it probably helped that his mom was feeding them! I remember driving by one day and a doe was drinking out of their birdbath! Almost a dog on petting zoo! My friend was going thru chemotherapy for some serious cancer stuff, not looking too good! So I gave him a pass

I haven’t hunted but, maybe an hour or two the last two seasons! Needless to say I only saw one little spike buck! I let him walk! I have another friend who loves 1/2 hour away in Monterey he’s always showing me trail cam pics of very large racks and he says the bucks neeed mineral year round to get the big racks….

 

[Jakflak71]

I’m more of a large buck or an unaffiliated doe kind of hunter! I’d rather get 2-3 large deer than a bunch of skinny too young stragglers

 

[Skerhunter]

At one point at my place in MO, doe permits were unlimited, maybe late 90's early 2000's. You could just keep shooting them. Problem was processing them. Even with 3 of us we were butchering deer more than were were hunting it seemed.

I believe the days of our unlimited nebraska doe tags are over. For certain areas you could get 2 doe tags for $11 and there was no cap. You can also shoot two bucks per year.

During that same time frame our populations were extremely high. Not uncommon to have 50+ deer grazing in one 80acre field.

I think our daily record was 12-15 doe (rifle), typically it was only 2-3 (bow/ML) With the assembly line method and a few dudes you could put up a deer in under an hour - solo 1-2 hours (boned out and trimmed to just red meat). Doing it daily would be a chore!

As young broke men, we were pretty hard on the local doe population and ate deer meat 99% of the time.

 

[Jakflak71]

I hope it doesn’t hurt the population too bad. I don’t hunt Putnam but do hunt Pickett county and the herd wouldn’t ever survive. Not sure how Overton will do with 3 a day. I do know the limit isn’t a suggestion from Twra and people shouldn’t take it as a daily challenge.

After processing 2-3 deer a year myself! The romance is over and I’m good till next year 3 years ago I shot a buck that weighed over 230 lbs on the hoof! Sent him to the processor and got back 60lbs that’s like 25% so I decided after that to do my own! Plus I’m not even sure the meat was from my deer or how many days it had bounced around in that hillbilly s truck bed

 

[Jakflak71]

I believe the days of our unlimited nebraska doe tags are over. For certain areas you could get 2 doe tags for $11 and there was no cap. You can also shoot two bucks per year.

During that same time frame our populations were extremely high. Not uncommon to have 50+ deer grazing in one 80acre field.

I think our daily record was 12-15 doe (rifle), typically it was only 2-3 (bow/ML) With the assembly line method and a few dudes you could put up a deer in under an hour - solo 1-2 hours (boned out and trimmed to just red meat). Doing it daily would be a chore!

As young broke men, we were pretty hard on the local doe population and ate deer meat 99% of the time.

I think they get pretty big in them Nebraska farm fields