Proposed 2019 changes

Don't sound so bad for the public land draw hunter.

 

I was hoping they would add another 5 days to the end of the season as doe only

 

This. Wouldn't mind seeing a doe only weekend after the late muzzy season, maybe the week between Christmas and New Years, at least for Zone 1 counties, if they really wan the population down.

I'm still perplexed why you can't use a bow in Zone 4 during the firearms seasons.

 

I think you can hunt with a bow if you want. It’s just that you can’t use the bow to harvest a doe, buck only.

 

It specifies does in the zone 4 counties that u cannot take with bows and crossbows. If u hunted a zone 4 u would probably better understand why they r proposing the changes. I hunted 13 days from before rifle season into rifle season and didn’t see the first doe from the treestand. Only had one group of 3 on camera the entire summer.

 

That’s exactly the issue.

 

You nailed it.

 

If they want to help the state out they should open a few more bear hunting opportunities before they really get out of hand. Deer season is fine, maybe an extra doe gun weekend.

 

Hadn’t thought of that. Makes sense then I guess

 

It says you can't take a doe with a bow, you can still hunt with a bow during those seasons if you wear hunter orange and only take a buck! Does are still legal during regular bow season.

 

I would say someone in F&W noticed a unusual number of doe's being checked in as Archery kill's during firearm season in zone 4 countys and wanted to nip it in the bud before it got way out of hand. I remember Sis who wrote out the permits to hunt Peabody Sinclair mine by TVA at paradise before it became a wildlife area. Said a group would show up each year and she gave them permits. Same guys year after year. One 80 something year old man was in the group. She ask him why would they make the drive all the way from eastern Kentucky to hunt Peabody. Old guy told her we done killed all the deer in our area and come down here to try and kill all of yours. She kept watch on that group and when they pulled out she noticed buzzards circling the campsite area. She took a walk and found IIRC 14 doe's in a gully with only the back straps cut out. Needless to say when they showed back up the next year she told them she had ran out of permits and they were just out of luck for the year. She is not nor ever been anti-hunting as she grew up around a family that hunted and fished every chance they got. Married into a farm family but I don't think her husband hunted. Guess that waste of meat tripped her trigger that year.