Comments on: New Florida Deer Hunting Rules Approved: Statewide Bag Limit, Harvest Reporting Required

By: Roger Ruryk

Roger Ruryk — Mon, 27 May 2019 12:47:59 +0000

FWC has this all wrong . At least for the northwest Florida area. This seems to be a push of a state government agenda to not manage a deer heard but to discourage deer hunting all together. I don’t believe for one second that this plan was devised to help manage a population of deer. It was devised to manage a population of deer hunters.
You can see that this is quite there narrative. I.e. micro managing deer season . What’s next ? Fishing? Will I need to call in every time I catch a fish now ? No the state cares nothing a bought managing our deer heard the bag limits in its self tells you all that you need to know. This is a bought discouraging hunting all together. Hunting is expensive and time consuming. If you add up all your expense for a season
Then divide by 5 . ” five being your bag limit for the year” you can see that those deer are going to cost you a lot of money. So now is it really worth the time and money to plant food plots to buy clothes to hunt in, and equipment to use. This really is an attack on the whole industry it’s self. I never thought I would see the day when hunting died. But it’s bleeding out slowley..

By: MAC

MAC — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 16:57:54 +0000

Florida farmer, and I quote ” THE PERMITS DO ALLOW YOU TO KILL AS MANY AS YOU WANT ” !!!!!!
I know you do not make the rules , I get it , but this is the part that gets me, and I am sure I am not the only one.
I really do believe that someone with FWC has lost there mind
I am done ranting now.
Happy hunting to everyone.
I AM OUTTA HERE.

By: Florida Farmer

Florida Farmer — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 08:48:19 +0000

Ken I’m glad that I do not have hundred of deer to deal with and if that’s going on you should turn them in. The permits do allow you to kill as many as you want, and the tags are so you can remove them from the property. If that’s going on you and the other land owners should get together and go to Tallahassee with all your evidence. They are going way overboard with the permit and are abusing it . The doe population is way out of control and I wish that they would open it to everyone. The laws will only change when enough like minded people come together and get them to change. I would rather not have to get the permits, but I need to be able to try and protect what’s planted. As I said before the state is not being realistic with the law.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 05:18:18 +0000

Florida Farmer, I personally know people that use depredation permits and YOU may only shoot does during the day, but I know farmers that hire shooters with $5,000 scopes that shoot hundreds of deer a year at night. This is one thing I dao know for a fact.
Now the FWC is going to allow a license buying hunter to kill no more than 2 does a year. Where in any quality deer management does it say that you should kill more does than bucks?? What kind of logic would tell them to throw the buck/doe ratio further out of balance than it already is? Hunters are going to cut back further on their doe harvest so they can hold out for their 4th or 5th buck. Again the FWC screwed this one up about as bad as they possibly could have.

By: Florida Farmer

Florida Farmer — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 22:37:14 +0000

MAC not sure why your so mad farmers are following the law set forth in front of them. If you’re only killing 2 does I’m sorry the law gives you 4 weekends to kill at least 1 per day . Your rant about farmers is wrong all the way around, we would rather the law be like Alabama 1 doe per day per hunter per season. If you’re mad about the law channel you’re frustration to Tallahassee not to the farmer following the laws set forth by the state. I should tell you to google your answers but I’m not that way or say it’s none of your business after reading your rant that is so wrong it’s not even funny. We can harvest deer and remove the animal with a tag. If it’s a buck we can leave it lay or remove the head and take the body. On 1 plot that I have that’s 100 acres I got 10 tags for the year. We can shoot them and leave them lay and then our fields stink attract all kinds of other unwanted things. I would rather have Alabama law and everyone shoot them don’t hattme for laws I didn’t make that’s what I meant about ignorance of the law you got on here and ran law abiding citizens down the road . You can not have a feeder and a crop in the field and be in the program or you will get in trouble. They chec I’ve been checked multiple times every year until my crop is harvested.

By: MAC

MAC — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 18:28:26 +0000

Mr.Florida Farmer, I suppose I do show some ignorance sometimes, but one thing I can assure you is, I know how the depredation works and I also know how the crop insurance works !!!
I am in no means trying to point a finger at any farmer ( maybe 1 or 2 ) but something is not right with our system that we are given and We know this.We hunters are allowed 5 deer this year, I think that is suffice. Mr. Florida Farmer, will you please if you will, tell us how many tags you will be getting this year for your crops ?
Just for us people with the ignorance you are referring too will know.

By: farmer

farmer — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 14:38:54 +0000

Amen Florida farmer! Florida will never have decent deer unless they allow more does to be harvested. We also target does and work together with
hunters to get them doe tags to fill during hunting season. If they would allow more does to be harvested depredation hunting would go basically go away. The farmers don’t want to be out protecting their crop at night but are forced to if they don’t want acres to be eaten off!!

By: Florida farmer

Florida farmer — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 11:58:50 +0000

I hear everyone complaining about the depredation permits and it just shows your ignorance to how this works. After a few evenings of shooting them or at them they move on. They stay away for a few days or sometimes a week. You think it’s like shooting fish in a barrel it’s not . I’ve been doing it for 15 years and now with the law showing up at night because the outlaws hear me shoot and use it as a deverasion so they can hunt illegally I don’t hunt at night. I use it during daylight hours to kill does. The problem I have is our unrealistic does season which does not allow hunters to help regulate the population of the deer herd in a positive way. We need to loosen the doe restrictions on all lands and everyone would benefit all the way around. The deer are a real problem for farmers especially the does. Our deer herd is out of wave with the buck to doe ratio and our legislative people are out of touch with reality.

By: geeker&twecker

geeker&twecker — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 07:02:24 +0000

FOR FLORIDAHUNTER LAST TIME I CHECK THE FWC DONT OWN ANY OF IT THEY MAY TRY TO MAKE TO RULES FOR T BUT MOST OF THE TIME THE PPL DONT LISTEN THEY JUST MAKIN THE PPL WONT TO EVEN GO OUT AND DO IT MORE BECAUSE YOU ARE TRYIN TO TELL USE WHAT TO DO OWN OUR LAND USE LAND RENTER AINT GONNA HAVE IT BUT I PERTY SURE GOD OWNS ALL OF IT DEER LAND AND ALL SO M HERE TO TELL YOU NOW IM NOT REPORTING NOTHNG I KILL IN Y OWN LAND AND I HOPE ALL OF YOU LAND OWNRS OUT THERE IS WTH ME ON THIS BECAUSE F YOU DONT START STANDNG UP FOR WHATS RIGHT THE NSXTTHS YOU KNOW THEY ARE GONNA START TELLING USE HOW MANY FISH WE CAN KEEP OUT OF OUR OWN PONDS AND LAKES SO NOW IS THE TIME TO SATNAD UP WHOS WTH ME

By: Florida logger

Florida logger — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 20:10:10 +0000

Fwc could be more constructive by busting up a lot of the drug dealers and theifs and stay around the management areas they heavily patrol gulf power land could they be hiding something like Area 51 it just odd over there and who gives them the right to trespass on someone private land and talk bad about how the person home looks poor professionalism what I’m trying say instead of being so serious on things like trying catch hunters that ain’t breaking laws catch some illegal immigrants