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Deer kill totals indicate growing herd
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Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:59 pm Posts: 2851 Location: Roanoke 
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 Deer kill totals indicate growing herdDeer kill totals indicate growing herd
http://www.roanoke.com/outdoors/wb/188448 Quote: Christmas is still a few days off, but Matt Knox already found what could be a big lump of coal in his stocking. This past week the state's lead deer biologist ran computer totals from phone and Internet deer checks. "It's bad news," he said. "Bad, bad news." Which, translated, means it's been a good year for deer hunters. Too good. Through Thursday, hunters had checked in 121,479 whitetails over the phone or using their computers. That's an increase of about 14 percent over the number of deer checked by this point in the season in 2007. To read the whole article click the link above... _________________ "What gets us jangly is the suddenness of everything. We hunt turkeys because we want to hear them gobble, watch them strut and all that, and we hunt them with shotguns because we want to be close to them when those things occur." - Jim Spencer |
| Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:30 am |
 
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King of Spring  Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:15 am Posts: 2632 Location: Campbell Co., VA
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They've just changed a huge variable: Earn a Buck. To compare kills with last year's at this point is comparing apples to grapefruit.
 _________________ "I'd rather look bad doing something hard than look good doing something easy." -- Tom Kelly |
| Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:38 am |
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King of Spring
Joined: Sun Mar 25, 2007 1:10 am Posts: 405
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peacemaker wrote: They've just changed a huge variable: Earn a Buck. To compare kills with last year's at this point is comparing apples to grapefruit. Exactly plus the extra week of early muzzleloading west of the blue ridge. So yeah the kills should be higher  .  |
| Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:36 pm |
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King of Spring
Joined: Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:50 pm Posts: 2650 Location: central Va
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Plus people now used to phone and net checking and using check stations less. First year for our county going antlerless full season ( from oct to jan.). I say it's great news, we need to kill more!
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| Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:25 pm |
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King of Spring
Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2004 8:30 pm Posts: 988 Location: Lexington
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Hopefully EAB will have the desired impact. I've heard more shots this year than I ever remember hearing before. I think Matt may be underestimating the shift to electronic. Check stations are getting harder to find. As of this year the one in Goode is no longer a check station....they were one of the top in the state, checking close to 1000 deer a year at one point. Always liked going there after a hunt to see what people were bringing in.
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| Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:35 pm |
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