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Never filled tags?
#5375967
10/23/14 06:59 PM
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Wiredhernandez
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Just thought about that on another thread mentioning not wasting your tags... I myself have never used more than two tags in a season. Never been much of an issue as hunting is a bit tough where we are. Do you get your buck every year? Fill tags ever year? Would you continue to hunt if it didn't happen for at least 4 years? Love it out there I tell ya!
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5375972
10/23/14 07:03 PM
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BenBob
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I don't usually fill my tags. I usually kill what property dictates rather than what State of Texas says I can kill. If we have an over abundance of does, I will help lower the numbers, but I usually kill 1 doe and 1 buck.
Tired, Wired, and Uninspired
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5375977
10/23/14 07:09 PM
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Dave B
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Never fill my tags. 2 to 3 deer a year will keep me and my wife in venison meat all year long along with providing deer sausage for my friends and family until the next season. Been cleaning out the freezer from last years 2 deer harvest. Still got burger meat to make chili on opening weekend. Note to self. Eat more deer over the year.
Last edited by Dave B; 10/23/14 07:15 PM.
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5375981
10/23/14 07:16 PM
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jmh004
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I've never filled my tags. I think the most I've harvested in a year was three. I've never felt the need to fill all my tags. I just get what I can eat till next season.
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5375985
10/23/14 07:19 PM
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esnow74
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Never filled tags, I always hope for 2 if not 3 deer in a season. That keeps us from buying any red meat for the family throughout the year. I have gone seasons without hardly having a deer sighting before and the first 15+ years of hunting you were lucky to have very many chances. The last 5-6 years we could have filled our tags in one trip every year but didn't. I just don't have a need to use them all since we can't eat that many in a years time and wouldn't want to jeopardize the future of the herd on any place i hunt. Of course this year I am back on public land archery hunting only so I hope to at least fill 1 tag!
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5375996
10/23/14 07:26 PM
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redchevy
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I filled my tags for 5 years in a row in a 5 deer county with almost all does, maybe one or two bucks. My brother did the same and we encouraged as many others on the lease as we could to shoot does. It helped our population out a lot because we had way too many deer.
Now hunting on our own property we have 3 guns hunting 320 acres, we no longer fill our tags.
It's hell eatin em live
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5375999
10/23/14 07:28 PM
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landsurveyor
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I base it on last years consumption. If I have venison left over from previous year I will only take 3 deer. If I run through it pretty quick and am out before the upcoming season I will tag out. Most years that is all does. The past 2 years I have tagged out 1 buck 4 does. The deer I process my self is mostly steaks and stew meat out of the quarters and backstrap and tenderloins whole. Doesn't take long to eat that up. If I do have leftover meat the next year it is usually the stuff from a processor like chili or link sausage.
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5376015
10/23/14 07:43 PM
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jseago
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Theres something about the progression of hunters that suggests one of the first steps after killing your first deer is to kill your limit. I never hit that stage. My father and grandfather taught me to take a mature animal or two. We never needed the meat for more than two or three per family. I still kill one or two for my little family these days.
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5376023
10/23/14 07:51 PM
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redchevy
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I also never felt the urge to tag out just to fill my tags. It was after I started thinking about management that I filled my tags because we were overrun with deer and especially does.
It's hell eatin em live
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5376049
10/23/14 08:08 PM
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Texas Dan
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I've never filled my tags, mostly because I like to pass on deer that I feel my friends would enjoy taking more than myself.
Problem is, most of them don't hunt often or diligently enough to see them.
"Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons."
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5376061
10/23/14 08:17 PM
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Jon P
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I haven't filled my tags before, usually only shoot two to three a season cause that all I can eat in a year.
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5376066
10/23/14 08:21 PM
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Mickey Moose
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I have never used more than two tags.
My botnet is bigger than yours.
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Mickey Moose]
#5376145
10/23/14 09:13 PM
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KG68
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I have one of the grandkids kill me a doe are spike every year or two for the freezer but I haven't shot a deer since 1995 unless it was to put one down hung in a fence. The wife killed a nice droptine buck in 2009 was her last one. We camp and keep grandkids almost every weekend during season but enjoy leaving the killing to the young adults and kids now days.
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5376205
10/23/14 09:40 PM
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Sneaky
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Some years I fill my tags and some years I dont.
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5376212
10/23/14 09:45 PM
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Weegs
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Shot a 10pt two years ago. The "right" (5.5+, 10pts) buck never showed last year. Looking at a mature buck on camera this year. Might take him if he still looks good "live." Everything else has been does.
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5376279
10/23/14 10:23 PM
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BooneDog
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As a kid in the early 80's in a construction family we tagged out because we lived off venison threw the slow months of winter. I have not tagged out since then because 2 deer a year was plenty for us. I once took a buddy hunting and let him shoot a big spike, he got upset when I told him he was done hunting.
He argued that the state says he could kill 4 deer. I agreed with him that he can legally kill 4 deer but his license did not say that he had to kill all 4 deer on my place. That was his first and last time at my place.
Kill as many or as few as you can eat and your property can handle.
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5376300
10/23/14 10:33 PM
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stxranchman
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I have filled my tags and then some every year for the last 24 yrs now.
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5376375
10/23/14 11:24 PM
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Javelin225ho
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property limits vs state limits are very different. i typically get 2 and let the wife and kids shoot one each…that's the 4 for my place…but i get some other opportunities on other places as well….
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5376394
10/23/14 11:32 PM
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BOBO the Clown
kind of a big deal
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I use all my tags either does or stags
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5376404
10/23/14 11:37 PM
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txshntr
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I fill mine each year. Any remainder after regular season goes on doe
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5376463
10/24/14 12:05 AM
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TxDispatcher
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I've never filled my tags, and don't see it happening this year, although I would have liked to have taken a couple more doe here at the house. We are overrun with doe and need to take more. The folks around us only rifle hunt, and Austin Co is buck only during rifle season. But unfortunately, the in-laws scheduled 3 retreats this month and I've been swamped have only hunted 3 evenings and taken 1 doe. I plan on giving my parents and siblings a lot of meat this year, since dad refuses to hunt from a blind and hasn't hunted in 15 years or so, and my brothers are workaholics and don't take time to enjoy hunting these days. I keep telling them that they need to slow down and enjoy life before it passes them by, but they don't listen
I will get off in a little bit You shouldnt have said that
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5376903
10/24/14 05:26 AM
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Txduckman
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I have never filled my tags but did take 5 deer last year. 4 were MLD though. I would never expect to fill tags at my lease. One or two does is enough and if I am lucky a buck.
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5376907
10/24/14 05:33 AM
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QuitShootinYoungBucks
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We are overrun. Looked at last years license, was 1 buck (mature) and three does. Year before was a cull, a spike and three does.
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5377037
10/24/14 11:57 AM
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RDNCK
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When I was younger I would tag out every year because I was trigger happy all the time but now I never take more than 2 and most years those are both does
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Re: Never filled tags?
[Re: Wiredhernandez]
#5377100
10/24/14 12:36 PM
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esnow74
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I have never hunted on a property that you needed to fill your tags for management purposes BUT if you need to fill a spot on a lease like that then let me know!
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