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Just a very few years ago it used to be a deer a day in Florida...........that's changed, but realistically that was nigh impossible anyhow. I believe W.va allows eight a season, so that more than one rule is most certainly not univertsal.
 
Thanks for info...i had to look it up for 2021 its 5 deer for W. Va i think ijust read 2 buck and 3 doe...Wow crazy. I live in NM and its only 1 i believe not sure about bow but i think it's the same
 
In many parts of the south. Alabama had 1 per day with a 3+ month long season at one time, I don't think it has changed much if at all. Here in GA I can take 10 doe and 2 bucks on private land. Deer taken on WMA's don't count on my limits. Technically if I hit enough management areas and kill my limit of 1 or 2 on each hunt plus those on private land I could technically take 20+ deer.
 
Wow with numbers like that you would nt have to ever spend money on red meat at the grocery store....EVERRRR!!!
 
In many parts of the south. Alabama had 1 per day with a 3+ month long season at one time, I don't think it has changed much if at all.

In my younger year as a kid and teenager, the law here in AL was a Buck a day with a 2 week “doe season”
Now it’s a doe a day with 3 bucks a year. And for a while reporting was not required so the 3 buck limit was basically an honor system.


To be perfectly honest, I don’t keep up the laws like I should. I only hunt on family land, (no license required) and generally only take one to the processor for sausage.
 
I'm also in GA, the most I've ever taken was 3 and that was in one day, ours is 10 anterless, 2 bucks and one of the bucks has to be 4 points or more, when I was in Alabama the limit was one a day but limited on the amount of doe days. Currently I have 3 groups that use my yard as a trail but I don't feel comfortable shooting them due to houses behind my property.
 
Yep, here in FL until 2 years ago, we could shoot one per day. They limited it to 5 deer. There are ways to still shoot more. I have private property and we have doe tags for that property. Those tags do not count towards our 5 deer total for the season. I shot 8 deer last year. I shot my 5 that was a mix of private and public land. And then I shot 3 does using the private property doe tags we have. My family of five eats between 5-8 deer a year. We do not buy one ounce of beef. It's all venison that I shoot. But our deer are not as heavy on the hoof as northern US deer! During the rut, a decent buck may only weigh 150 - 160 lbs max live weight. Our does average only 80-90 lbs. A good doe is one over 100 lbs. So for every one you shoot that's not in the southeast, we have to shoot two in order to equal your one when it comes to the amount of meat on the bone!

Our herds are healthy in numbers in northwest FL and AL.
 
Here in CT, if you have the permits you can legally take up to 8 (eight) deer with firearms, even more if you also hunt with a bow.
 
In KS the whole state allows 2, either sex and antlerless with quite a few zones allowing an additional 4 antlerless tags.

My area is either sex and antlerless, but on the fort (Leavenworth) they're allowed an additional 4 antlerless, so a total of 6. It's not hard at all to kill 6 a year here. My "record" is 5 does in an afternoon.
 
I had six tags last year for Iowa. May apply for more this year.

(1) Antlered buck......archery
(1) Antlered buck......shotgun (or muzzle loader)
(1) Antlered buck......Landowner/farm tag
Antler less doe tag....purchase as many as the allotted area (county) has available

Landowners and renters can apply for depredation tags to thin out deer causing damage to crops. (have heard of several farmers with more than 25 depredation tags)

Iowa allows "party hunting".....if you're with a group of 10 guys, anyone can shoot a deer and put one of your party's tag on it, or one guy can shoot all 10 and use the groups allotted tags ....as long as you don't exceed 10 tags. (example)
 
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I guess NM just doesn't have same population numbers because even on private land that still counts as your 1 deer bag limit.
Not gonna lie is pretty depressing. I haven't drawn for deer in 5 years which honestly sucks.
My buddies drew for end of oct hunt so at least i get to hike around and if they tag out (they have 4 tags) ill at least get some meat...better than nothing.
Only recent bright spot was drawing my once in a lifetime oryx tag last year. Some of the best game meat ive ever had and my mount is supposed to be ready in Nov.
 
Here in Texas it depends on which county you hunt in. Some counties 1 buck with size restrictions and no does. Where I hunt it's 5 total. 2 bucks and 3 does or 5 does if you choose. Total of 5 tags per license. It can change from year to year based on census studies. We also have Mule deer tags as well if you hunt where they are allowed.
 
Well i guess im just ignorant. Not sure why i never looked up numbers before but in 2020 we only had about 80,000 muleys and 10,000-15,000 coues and whitetail while states like TX Ga Miss Ark and many others are over a million +
Haha man that's a bummer.
 
I might need to move.
I'd think that over pretty hard, Juiceking. We're only allowed one deer per year (and it better darned well have antlers) here in Idaho too. Besides that, as I've said in several of my other posts, only 1 in 3 Idaho deer hunters even get a deer.
On the other hand, back in the '90s the company I was working for sent me back east to Maryland for a "Train the Trainer" school. Because the school was close to Washington D.C., and neither my wife nor I had ever been there, she went with me, and we took a couple of weeks vacation so that we could tour that part of the country and see Washington after I was through with the schooling.
We rented a car and drove around all over the place - West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania (and of course Washington D.C.) while we were there. We'd never seen so many deer in our lives! It seemed like they were everywhere we looked!
The flip side was, there were people everywhere too. And the traffic?!? Naturally there was also a heck of a lot of dead deer on the roads and alongside the roads.:eek:
Besides all that, I don't know what it's like in New Mexico, but my wife and I will be going deer hunting on opening morning the Sunday after next. And if we feel real energetic, we'll drive about 50 miles over to Georgetown Summit for it. If we're feeling lazy, we'll just hunt in the hills around home. Either way, we won't have to ask permission, or have a hunting lease because we'll be hunting on public land - BLM or Forest Service land.
Almost 2/3rds of Idaho is public land, and even though there's not a great many deer here, we don't have to ask permission or lease/buy land to hunt them on. Of course it's nice to have rancher friends (we do) that will let us hunt on their land too. We'd be doing that this year except for the fact that our rancher friend's land is in a draw hunt area, and we forgot to even put in on the draw until it was too late.:oops:
 
Back in the day you could just buya deer license at Walmart but now adays everything is by draw.
We also have a lot of BLM and State land which is nice.
However the only way to guarantee a hunt is to buy a private land owner tag or outfitter. That's probably been biggest bummer is just how hard it is to draw. We need a point system!
 
Hello all,
I was reading another thread on THR and someone metioned being able to shoot 2-4 deer in one season... what States allow that? I might need to move.

NY 1 buck and 2 doe tags regular gun season some drugs have antler restrictions, plus bow muzzle loader deer of either sex. So up to 4 plus there are special hunts where populations are real high. A few towns, cities north and west of me have deer roaming around town. Deer limits are not a good enough reason to move here, heck I don't want to live in the state of NY
 
I heard a few years back that New Jersey led with up to 28 deer. There were that many to cull and it takes permits to make that happen.
 
There are several big differences between Southeastern states and Western states. Due to the terrain and habits of mule deer vs whitetails success rates are a lot higher in most of the West. You can see the deer. In most places here you can have a dozen deer within 50 yards of you and never know it. A mature whitetail buck is a lot harder to kill, legally anyway, than a mature mule deer.

When I started hunting in the 1970's deer were pretty rare here in GA. The limit was 1 buck per year and a fairly short season. The herd has exploded in size about the same time the number of hunters started decreasing. Today deer are considered a nuisance due to crop damage and damage done to vehicles during collisions. That is why the push to take a lot of does.
 
Yep, here in FL until 2 years ago, we could shoot one per day.

Actually, it was 2 deer/day. A buck and a doe in archery season or two bucks. The rest of the year it was 2 bucks/day.

On private land that had doe tags more could be killed.

This was fantasy as Florida has fewer deer than other south-eastern states. The most deer I ever killed in one year in Fla. was seven. That was when I was in my late 60's. Now I'm happy to kill 2 or 3/year as I approach 80.

I suppose Florida could issue a limit of 12 moose or elk/day but that wouldn't mean much, just as the 2 deer/day didn't mean there was a wealth of deer in our state.
 
That's probably been biggest bummer is just how hard it is to draw. We need a point system!
I can understand that! I forget to put in on a moose tag every once in a while, but I've probably put in on a moose tag 40 times in the past 50 years, and haven't drawn one yet. And a moose tag in Idaho is a once in a lifetime proposition - except if you draw a bull moose tag, you can put in on a cow moose tag later.
Of course that rule doesn't make much difference to us unlucky folks that have never drawn a bull moose tag in the first place. You'd think the Idaho Department of Fish and Game would take pity on old folks and just sell us an over-the-counter moose tag.;)
Oh well. I understand hunting a moose is about as challenging as hunting a Hereford. And if that sounds like sour grapes, it's because it is!:D
 
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