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Had 6 bucks 3YO 135"+ make it through 2021 season. This year had two 3yo bucks and many more than normal 1year old bucks. All my mature bucks disappeared and thinking blue tong. Found 2yo along creek in September and going to walk the creeks in March.

that stinks! cheers to a better 2023 season for you!

 

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Booner does😁

if you think the mdc deer population guess is accurate???? Population seemed to conveniently jump in size in just a couple years, was it make hunters believe there are more deer so they push though refs to kill more……,seems the deer pop was 1.2 a couple years ago with nofall off in harvest numbers and now it is 1.4?

 

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Do you have a better estimate? I think the MDC uses the same tools to estimate deer abundance as other states.

But back to the question, what percentage of the deer we killed do you think were matoor, both bucks and does?

Likely a huge percantage were mature deer, seeing how the MDC considers a 2.5 yo a mature deer.

 

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Do you have a better estimate? I think the MDC uses the same tools to estimate deer abundance as other states.

no i do not, but just a few years ago I thouight we had a 1.2 million pop, now it is all of the sudden 1.5 mil? Maybe they counters was just off for a couple seasons you decided if it was off the past couple or a few years ago!

 

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I don’t know if they are lying or bout, but I sure remember a few years ago the pop was 1.2 and now all of the sudden it is back up to 1.5 with the same amount being killed