At our place in Lavaca County we are not allowed to shoot does during rifle season unless we have obtained MLD permits. I am trying to wrap my head around this because any given night at our feeder we have at least 15 does and 1 if not zero bucks! The only bucks we ever see out there are mickey mouse 4 pointers or the occasional 6 pointer with about a 10" spread.

I understand the antler restrictions and trying to let the bucks grow to maturity, but not being able to shoot does, especially when they are in abundance has never made any sense to me.


Can anyone shed some light on this?

We also hunt in lavaca county. We like the A.R. program, but needless to say I will not open up that can of worms on here, things get CRAZY!! We usually kill one decent size/aged buck a year for the area. We see a decent amount of bucks, but many were too small or we wanted to let them grow. Our place is only 100 acres, and we wanted to kill a few doe also. I don't bowhunt there, so we talked with the game bio, and he set us up in the MLD program, and it is super easy, and gave us TWO doe tags. This biologist has been promoted, so not sure who is handling it now, but get in contact with the game warden and I am sure he can point you in the right direction!