Managing Antler Expectations this Deer Season

Deer Hunting Season Shines Bright in Texas

... deer in great shape and grow antlers beyond their expectations? Probably not. Texas Whitetail Deer Hunting Season. Although management practices can ...

2024 Deer Season Forecast | Virginia DWR

The 2023-2024 deer harvest was up 5% from the last 10-year average of 196,862. Harvest during the 2022-23 season was down 3% from the previous ...

Dry Weather Tempers Expectations for General White-Tailed Deer ...

“Overall antler quality is down a bit, but there's still some great bucks being harvested during archery and Managed Lands Deer Program season,” ...

Growing Pains of a DIY Bowhunter: Setting Goals & Expectations

In reference to whitetail deer hunting, goals and expectations are most often centered around two factors: antlers and meat.

Kentucky Trophy Deer Considering Antler Rule

The state only allows deer hunters to shoot one trophy buck during the entire Kentucky deer hunting season. ... expectation during a Kentucky deer hunt ...

Steve Bartylla talks Expectations

One of the problems with hunting in general, deer management and habitat improvement most definitely included, is that it's become a business.

Food Plots and Antlers - BUCKMASTERS

Quality Deer Management Association outreach and education coordinator Kip Adams says as little as 1 percent of an area planted in food plots can make a ...

Deer / Big Game Information / Hunting / KDWP

The selective management program has created a healthy deer herd, with excellent potential for trophy-sized bucks in all regions. To apply or sign in to your ...

Deer Management Units (DMUs) | FWC

12 DMUs with unique antler point and antlerless season regulations based on local habitat quality, deer herd characteristics, and hunter preferences.

Deer Season in Arkansas: A Comprehensive Overview for 2024

Antler-point restrictions are in place to promote healthy deer populations by ensuring young, potentially trophy-class bucks are not harvested ...

Expectations rise at deer rut kicks into high gear

These cards serve as proof of permission to hunt on the property for the entire general season. Similar to other Block Management areas across the state, FWP ...

The Facts on Antler Restrictions and Deer Hunting

On large club properties or shooting preserves the club members or owner may voluntarily establish rules that require that a buck exceed a ...

Unrealistic Expectations Are They Making You Crazy?

The easiest way is to live in a state that protects young bucks with antler restrictions, brief buck seasons or some other program designed to reduce the number ...

Hunters' Experiences with and Attitudes about Antler ... - NY.gov

Comparison of hunters' expectations and experiences for five aspects of deer hunting. ... Deer hunters' assessment of antler restrictions in wildlife management ...

Hunters: 2024 Wyoming hunt forecast available

... antlers compared to mule deer ... Managers are still managing this population with very liberal hunting seasons to address damage to private ...

Myths of Mule Deer Management - Hunt West

One thing is true about all antler restrictions – they are an effective tool for reducing the overall harvest of deer in places where deer are ...

Driftwood Outdoors: Century of change in American deer hunting

This is a good marker for the beginning of a new era of private land management and heightened expectations of the deer herd. Hunting television ...

PB1643-Quality Deer Management - Guidelines for Implementation

Can hunters on the management area (hunting club or lease) recognize a 10-point difference in antler score? That is, would a 4½- year-old buck (that was an 8- ...

To Cull or Not to Cull - Reasons for Abnormal Antlers in Whi

As a result, hunters and managers commonly record, analyze, and discuss various antler criteria to determine which bucks should be harvested to meet management ...

Regional Variation in Antler and Body Size: Is it Nutrition or Genetics?

I figured the deer were stunted due to lack of agriculture. Pines offer nothing & the mass corn feeder use doesn't help much nutritionally.