Damage hunts

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   We have NO snow and the temps run around 45* in the day.Why is there still damage hunts going on?
I have been hunting for over 50 years many of which the snow and cold would rival anything in Anchorage AK.
In the 50+ years I have been called on 3 damage hunts all for elk and you needed a dog team and sled to hunt them.
This year 3 damage hunts have our names on them.
We can get 3 more does and 2 more antelope.
Really?
Anyway I have people that will love to have meat for the winter.
We give MANY deer, antelope, and elk away every year to very appreciative people.
I don't see the point, we do have mega amount of does but the antelope are not as numerus.
But all the places that have damage hunts have to let people on in the General season, so I'll help them out .

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d4570 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby Joined: 27 January 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 9961	Post Options Post Reply Quote d4570 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Damage hunts Posted: 15 January 2021 at 12:55
	We have NO snow and the temps run around 45* in the day. Why is there still damage hunts going on? I have been hunting for over 50 years many of which the snow and cold would rival anything in Anchorage AK. In the 50+ years I have been called on 3 damage hunts all for elk and you needed a dog team and sled to hunt them. This year 3 damage hunts have our names on them. We can get 3 more does and 2 more antelope. Really? Anyway I have people that will love to have meat for the winter. We give MANY deer, antelope, and elk away every year to very appreciative people. I don't see the point, we do have mega amount of does but the antelope are not as numerus. But all the places that have damage hunts have to let people on in the General season, so I'll help them out .
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jsgbearpaws1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby Joined: 02 March 2013 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3606	Post Options Post Reply Quote jsgbearpaws1 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15 January 2021 at 14:26
	I've gone to red tag damage areas to hunt. PA gives farmers tags for deer damaged fields and post online the details, owners info and such. Ten bucks a tag, and anything brown is down. Problem is that nobody ever follows up with these idiots. Sure, they had a problem.....for a year! Farmers keep putting the same farms on the list every year to keep the population of the deer to ...zero! I actually did find "a" set of tracks on the one farm. Checked for a few years after that and sure enough, same farm, still on the list for damage hunts. The brown things eat up the green things farmers have. Not a good way to fill a silo or a wallet. Brown is the enemy. PA's mega billion dollar Gish and Mame fail to follow up on the claims of damage and just allow it to continue. Seems you folks are in no better shape with your damage hunts.
	...oh yeah! thats gonna hurt!

d4570 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby Joined: 27 January 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 9961	Post Options Post Reply Quote d4570 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15 January 2021 at 14:42
	In a normal winter I'm sure they cause a lot of damage to the hay stacks and fences. Many times if the ranches would let in more people in the General season this would help lessen the problem. I have seen where deer have flattened a stack in a day or two, several hundred deer at a time. This year there is a lot of grass to go around. But like I said they let people in all season long so they can get a damage hunt now. It's fine I'll shoot my shear and give them to people that will love to have the meat.
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jsgbearpaws1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby Joined: 02 March 2013 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3606	Post Options Post Reply Quote jsgbearpaws1 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15 January 2021 at 15:52
	Well........I love the meat! Problem here is the farmers here like it both ways. Most like to hunt and keep lands posted except for where they have crops taking a hit. They don't open it up because then they would lose the opportunity to get a big farm raised buck during season themselves.
	...oh yeah! thats gonna hurt!

Wing master Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Administrator AKA StraightShooter Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8029	Post Options Post Reply Quote Wing master Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15 January 2021 at 16:52
	It sounds like an extended season to me. If you can get a tag I think it's a great deal. When they do that here, by the time I hear about it the tags are all gone. Wing master
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BEAR Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Administrator Joined: 07 September 2013 Location: Appalachian Mtn Status: Offline Points: 14390	Post Options Post Reply Quote BEAR Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 January 2021 at 10:31
	Very different in East vs West. I've gone to Red Tag farms, only to find all 135 acres to be open empty fields are surrounded by 60 hunters. Can'y hynt outside zone. So even if the first guy there in dawn, if isn't DRT, you can't follow a wounded deer even 50 yards off property. As JSB said it is just a publicc relations thing for farmers...not practical.
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	We have "damage" tags here too in WI. For deer & bear. Never tried to get any. Hunters can apply for damage tags for crop damage. Never tried to get one so no experience as others have mentioned.
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d4570 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby Joined: 27 January 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 9961	Post Options Post Reply Quote d4570 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 January 2021 at 16:14
	First one was a success kinda. The boy got all the deer he was allowed, but... But he said it was a circus, gobs of hunters all driving all over chasing deer, jumping out of trucks and blasting in to herds of deer. There was not to be any driving off road. The boy and his wife looked at the satellite pics and found some alfalfa strips between wheat stubble. Snuck in to them before daylight and waited. They got there's and they were not all shot up, He was using his wife new 280 AI and said they dropped like cord wood... Tomorrow we try for two antelope, then two more deer for my 8 to whack. Going to have to give some more away! Edited by d4570 - 24 January 2021 at 16:16
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