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Originally Posted by Jaymo
Hate? No.
If you're going to teach your child to hunt, you should also teach them to wait for the right animal and the right shot.
Killing the small/young ones hurts the deer population more than killing the adults that have already procreated.
Deer that small aren't even worth the processing fee.
Doe days in GA have been limited because of the number of young deer killed by coyotes. The effect on the population is not lessened by irresponsible hunters doing the same thing.
Passing on tiny animals and only killing mature adults is better than teaching our children that it's okay to kill any deer they see.
Waiting for the right deer is much better than the instant gratification of letting them do whatever they want.
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That deer is a spike. He doesn't need to "grow up", he needs to be taken out of the herd.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publicat...w7000_0827.pdf
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publicat...w7000_0247.pdf
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Originally Posted by Jaymo
450 pounds is not a large hog in GA. We have a problem with them here.
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I'll go ahead and be the one to call BS on this... 450 lbs for a wild hog is a large hog. Not saying that they don't get that big or bigger, but that is near the top of the scale for the average hog...
http://feralhogs.tamu.edu/files/2010...in-Georgia.pdf
"100 to 500+ pounds. Very large hogs (500+ pounds)
are generally from domestic stock. "
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Originally Posted by Jaymo
I've seen what happens to the deer population when people in the hunting club allow deer of any size to be killed. After a couple of seasons of people shooting a bunch of dog-sized deer, there aren't many adults left in the area. Those dog-sized adolescents have to grow up to become adults worthy of shooting/processing/eating.
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Again, it is a spike. See above.
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Originally Posted by Jaymo
As far as "everything being better in GA", I'm not getting into that urinating competition with you, but I'm glad you don't live here and I wouldn't live in FL on a dare.
Our hogs are bigger, our deer are bigger, our bears are bigger, and I can legally own shotgun specialty ammo here (felony in FL).
FL has it's pluses, but I'm not a beach or theme park person.
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I don't think having larger animals of an invasive species that are extremely destructive to agriculture, property, and native wildlife habitat is something to brag about.