(12-18-2017 02:13 PM)Crebman Wrote:  

(12-18-2017 01:18 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(12-18-2017 01:08 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(12-18-2017 12:52 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(12-18-2017 12:44 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  How much are deer tags in your neck of the woods?

I paid $25 for my resident combination hunting, fishing, and big game permit which gives me three buck tags and eight dated antlerless tags. For an additional $20 I purchased four anytime antlerless tags. So far this year I've used one buck tag because the other three deer I've killed were on management properties that get property specific tags issued to them.

No idea what the non-resident fees are, but I know they are significantly more in cost and you get fewer tags.

Wow that's a lot of meet you get for cheap.

It's significantly more expensive in Texas.

Used to be even better. This is the first year that there are tags and limits on bucks in the Lowstate. Before you could kill as many as you wanted. No seasonal or daily limits from Aug 15 - Jan 1.

The guy who owns the property I hunted Thursday & Friday killed 23 deer last year by himself, they killed 180-something total on his 1200 acre farm between him, his family & friends they let hunt. He still lost around $10k from crop damages from the deer this growing season.

I guess you could say that deer aren't on the endangered species list anywhere close to where you live.......plenty of them where I live as well..

Oh yeah, especially the further out you get. Here in town we have a few. Lately there's been a herd of six does and yearlings that feed down my fence line and drive my dogs crazy.

You used to be able to ride around and spotlight deer before 11PM as long as you didn't have any weapons in the vehicle. During the late summer we would drop the top on the Jeep, put the kids in car seats in the back and ride around in the boondocks for a few hours. Wouldn't be a big deal to shine a 10 acre soybean or peanut field and there be a hundred sets of eyes looking back at you.

Sadly they changed the law to where you can only spotlight property you own or lease. Our hunting property isn't conducive to spotlighting so we haven't done it in a while.