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Originally Posted by Full Curl Earl
So were all clear, this draw change has nothing to do with conserving mule deer populations. I just spent 4 days looking for a good buck on the Milk River ridge. The new oil wells everywhere in prime habitat was stunning! We can normally find 4 or 5 170" plus bucks but this time not one! Rifle hunters apparently took 70 bucks last season off the Ridge. TJ's recent article about management being solely placed on hunters was smack on. Mule deer numbers are drowning not because of bow hunters, but because of habitat loss. Getting rid of the 10 bow kills in WMU 108 per year will do very little to help out these deer. After seeing how much more involved the U.S is in wildlife management while hunting there the past 5 years, it's opened my eyes as to how toothless our system is. Big money runs this Province and after 40 years of it's decline its discouraging. Ok, I feel better now. Turnout gear on, flame away!
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So at the risk of being pro oil, some wells on the ridge were the reason for your lack of success??? (funny deer around here have put up with them and thrived on and around the leases for many years,) or it's too many rifle hunters???...or the U.S. does a better job????...pretty vague, but pretty easy to blame everyone and everything else cause you didn't see the number of Deer you normally see.....how were the last few winters down there?....how many tags were given out?...even after 2 bad winters???...lots more in the pot here....#1 problem in this Province is too many damn tags, there is another thread here about the older hunters, you know what?...back then you shot 1 animal, that's all you had a tag for....the guys these days are whining if they can't kill a General, get 2-3 supplementals and get a draw for another one, so " myfamily can eat???.... BS!!!!!! Rant Done with.....