You don't mean that. You need any extra guides this year? Baby needs shoes.

Baby should be wearing the most expensive shoes known to mankind with all the lease money you are not going to spend this year....

I didn't realize we were on this forum just to hurt other people's feelings.....

I only speak the truth most of the time

I thought that was your Craigslist ad that was day leasing them???

If you shoot a 12.5" buck LF is the fine the same as if it was HF?

No fine for MLD II or MLD III

Hopefully..on HF you should have to pay restitution & restocking fee.....if I could pick which deer they restock the place with, a small fine would be a win-win.

Densities. ..high densities equal more deer = more tags for that county

My buddy has a small farm in Colorado county (one of the original AR counties)

Last year they killed the two biggest bucks ever and have killed better deer every year since the AR's went into effect.

Having three and four hunters per hundred acres doesn't help deer population either. See that a lot on leases advertised for east Tx.

Kyle, here one of those mature (by your standards) <13" deer.

so what are there more of, <13" mature bucks, or these....

crazy looking buck, lol

When he runs he rattles.

I think those funny looking ones has something to do with genetics.

An you can't change the genetics on LF, so they are just SOL!!!

If its to increase mature bucks and betterment of the herd, why doesn't the entire state just suspend ALL deer hunting for 4 or 5 years?

That way there will be plenty of mature deer running around

They could use something like braces, or "stretchers", just think of the new "economic" opportunities that could be available in this field.

overpopulated already.

I like how everyone always references "the one " mature buck that won't meet ARs but don't ever mention the dozens of ones that survived to maturity and were 13+" because if the restrictions.

Here's my solution. In areas of the state with many highly fragmented and subdivided, small acreage tracks, TPWD should form Game Management Units like many western states have done.

After a series of surveys have been conducted they will decide on the number of tags to be issued for that unit. Then a lottery will be held to decide who gets drawn and who doesn't. If you're lucky enough to get drawn then you can shoot whatever you like but, once you burn your tag, you're done for the season.

No more AR's.

Are you talking about public land draws or private land draws? If private, who gets the permit, the landowner or the hunter? If to the landowner, is the tag/permit assignable to another individual, hunter? If so, tags will be sold to the highest bidder. If the hunter gets it, where will he hunt? Prices for leased property will bottom out, being that no one will lease unless he/she has a tag in hand. It might work under a "ranching for wildlife" program similar to that of Colorado. It's not a bad idea, just a lot of logistics to sort through. However, someone will still be disgruntled no matter what system is put into place.

Something similar was tried in the late 60's or around the early 70's in Webb County(maybe a couple of more IRRC). In order to get a buck permit you had to have 200 acres of contiguous land IRRC. Every 200 acres you owned got you one permit. It went over like a fart in church back then.

In the 1960's in Taylor county you got a doe permit for X number of acres. Today there are so many deer that even the 5 acres ranchitos would get permits.