And I can promise you that we're not going to go to the Coastal Plain and come back with a three-buck limit. But five would be a nice place to start. |
I don't know that we'll be able to sell, statewide, anything less than a five-buck limit. |
It had to stop - we were carrying about a million deer in South Carolina, and we don't need one million deer in South Carolina. |
Many hunters believe that bucks are being over-exploited and would like to see more mature bucks in the woods when they hunt. Most hunters today are interested in quality over quantity. |
Most southeastern states are conservative. |
What this shows is that a small percentage of us kill a whole lot of bucks. And many hunters continue to harvest bucks - primarily young bucks - even when they have opportunity to harvest a legal doe. |