Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Oregon big game managment

I am tired of oregon using hunters as a pay check. The game management is a joke and onlygetting worse, why are there an unlimited number of buck tags on the west side? money. i am a huge hunter, those who know me know all about it. Oregon needs to make the west sidea draw hunt or at least a 3 point min for a few years. Also we need more doe hunts and hereis why, a healthy dear population has a 50 or 75-100 buck to doe ratio, oregon is on average8-100 on the west side and that is horrible! the over all deer population is decliningand this is the reason. We need a healthy buck to doe ratio it is critical for fawnsurvivle. There are many many preditors for deer fawns, cougers bears and bob cats to name a couple. If a doe is not bred in her first cycle she will come back into heat 28 dayslater and so on untill the job gets done, if the ratio is low this will go on for a couple months 2 or 3. blacktail deer have a 200 day gestation period, so if the breading is spread out over 3 months making it almost impossible for fawns to survive dew to predidation. if the buck to doe ratio is healthy all of the breading will get done in about 3 weeks so all of the fawns will be born in about 3 weeks and preditors can only eat so much at a time, if it is spread out over 2-3 months you can see how most of the fawns will become a meal. Yes more doe hunts will lower deer numbers at first but in the end will creat a much betterand healthyer deer heard and better hunting and at least for a couple years they needto stop selling unlimited buck tags or at least making it a 3 point or better hunt.
it would be hard but i would give up deer hunting if i had to for a couple years to seethis happen.

2 comments:

Matthew said...

Wow Zac, that makes a lot of sense. You really know what you are talking about. If you want, I can edit this a little for you and we can send it in letter form to the Game Management Department.

RavenM said...

Sounds like you know your stuff. I wonder if they would listen, or if they have a different view (besides money i mean) ??