Comments on: FWC Approves Draft Plan With New Deer Hunting Regulations For Northwest Florida

By: carl

carl — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 18:03:02 +0000

Its about time florida has antler restrictions. Better quality deer in the future. And as for the dog hunter who complain I cant see the points when dogs are running it. Quit hunting I personally thing dog hunting is only good for cats coons hogs and bear NOT deer.

By: Gregg Ward

Gregg Ward — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 05:31:30 +0000

It doesnt make any sense to jump to a 3 on one side rule. You first need to clean up the heard there are too many does when you have spotted fawns in january. Then there is the bad genes, many of the deer in for instance blackwater will grow old and die a cowhorn or a forked horn 3 or 4 point so I would think some doe days and maybe a fork on one side for several years maybe 5 or more. Then you may be able to jump up higher with your restrictions. The FWC wanting to jump from a 5 inch horn on one side to a 3 pt or bigger on one side is just plain stupid!!!! Who comes up with these ideas? The farmers are already getting deprivation permits like crazy now you want to have more deer to eat their crops ?? ingenious folks!!! Now they will be overrun and still the deer will have less than 3 on one side…

By: dnl

dnl — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:41:30 +0000

I really don’t understand why the state would be for increasing rules that hunters have to go by when they( the state) doesn’t enforce the ones that are in place now. I haven’t seen a game warden where I hunt, for years. As usual, this will hurt the law abiding hunters, the outlaws are always going to outlaw.

I also am against regulating horn size and anterless deer for the hunters when the farmers get deprevation tags and let so-called hunters bait deer on their property and shoot anything and as many as they want at night. If the deer are eating up your crops, do everything to prevent them from coming to your fields, and not allow feeding to draw them to the fields.

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:54:46 +0000

Hey Andrew,
Simple solution. If you cannot IDENTIFY your target, DO NOT SHOOT.

Now, back to what is at hand… It’s about time FWC has approved an antler point requirement.
Too many people with the attitude, “If you don’t shot it, somebody else will”, referring to a barely legal spike. Also the amount of people who kill an excess of 10+ deer a season, It’s unreal….

FWC… I wish you’d also bring back the Tag system, allowing only 3 to 4 buck kills a year per hunter…..

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:05:18 +0000

What about the people that run dogs in Blackwater when a deer jumps out in front of the hunters they don’t have time to count how many points the deer has. A deer is not going to jump out in front of you and stop just to let you count there horns.

By: melodies4us

melodies4us — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 03:08:53 +0000

What a bunch of controll freaks.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:29:47 +0000

theres no way they can enforce this outlaws are going to be outlaws that’s the way it is

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:39:34 +0000

I don’t think it’s going to do any good as long as the deer depradation permits allow hundreds and hundreds of bucks to be shot before season comes in every year with no restrictions or regulations.

By: curious

curious — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:32:07 +0000

I live off Hwy. 29, from Dec. to prolly March, there will be maybe 20 to 25 bucks killed by cars, shooting couple does on doe days & restricting horns will only add to bucks wasted on hwy.

By: Joe Page

Joe Page — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:21:06 +0000

Georgia has done wonders with their deer herd. You can shoot ten does and two bucks. On your license there is a slot that is filled out when you harvest a deer. It makes a person a little less likely to shoot a small buck knowing you can only take two. Even if you don’t take a buck, does are better eating. That allows the bucks to grow larger the following year. I hear of people killing 8 or 10 bucks a year and no real trophies among them. They wonder why the don’t kill any good bucks. They are not allowed to mature into one.