Aroostook County Management Poll

Hey BD....... love it when I see a new convert developes a sense of humor. Still enjoying the good writing and grammar too. As far as putting guides out of business..that's your idea not mine. A buck restriction wouldn't hurt them all that bad. In fact the increase in coyote hunting as a result of the changes in management plans would increase business and not lesson it.( ask Capt.. Duggins about out of state coyote hunters.)

Never have I put the blame in anyones lap ...or tried to say the deer issues here in Aroostook were anything but "ours". As a county boy through and through.... I know the answers to my questions lie here and not in Augusta. It is up to us to solve them. That makes me sleep better at night.

The fact of the matter is our deer will put us on the map. As some have already seen from Mooseguide07's pics, we still have huge deer here. My idea was not to reduce hunting or guiding... but to choose to leave the best to breed. If it meant hunting in another county for that buck to give our County deer a break.... so be it. The part you failed to understand is all my plans are temporary field studies. A three year moratorium would only insure a rest period for the herd. After which we would be back to normal. If it worked the biologists would now have data to support more permanent changes... like a slot limit. To preserve the little guys and the Grand Dads. It has to start somewhere...
What would you sacrifice to preserve your heritage ...... I just offered up my deer seasons for three years...... how about you?

I know I probably sound angry to some who read this post..but I'm not. I took a jab at BD for posting here in some kind gibberishy slanguage. But I truly meant it when I thanked him for suddenly posting in english. If you think I am going too far... go back and read all of his "tracks" as he calls them. Then tell me if you think what I thought, that he is a reasonably literate man trying to sound just "*******" enough to fit in here. Personally I find it insulting when people "talk down" to me and my country kin.
If I was wrong I apologize......now honestly how many others out there were thinking the same thing but chose not to say anything. That's the difference... I call it as I see it and stand by my convictions right or wrong.

BD remember...if you pull a chain..check to be sure you know what you grabbed a hold of.

TX, our hunting is alot different than your's, dont take me wrong, we have dense cover to hunt in, so the chances to be able to count point's is out the window in most cases. We cant use feeders to entice them to range for selection, so how would the "average" hunter do it effectively. Maine has big deer no doubt, but I know they were here long before we started with permit systems, and use to see more when I was a kid before the Biologists started screwing around with our deer herd. It all goes back to what I said before, it's a trophy thing built on bragging right's. Im guilty, I like to bragg it up when I kill a big deer, but I dont plaster it all over the papers and the internet, I keep it to a few local buddies, so my hunting area is not infested.
Sure I have some big racks, a few would surprise most, but I keep it low key and my areas produce well, but I dont limit myself to the big one's, so the seed is always there, and my boy get's first whack at them, after he get's it out of his system, he will appreciate hunting for what it is supposed to be.

TX, maybe the yotes are eating the young, Im not 100% sure, but you dont see many single doe's in Central Maine, and there is plenty of yote's. Weight is a big thing here, 200 plus, but now people are rack happy. I have a family member that use to live near me, great hunter, him and his buddies pretty much wiped out his hunting areas for big bucks, so he moved to Northern Maine, He kills a good buck every year, and lets many pass, hell I hunted up there 3 years with him, saw plenty of big tracks, and spotted many big one's during pre-season, but never killed one. It's big country, plenty of places to hide, and most hunters are'nt skilled enough to venture miles from roads to find them. There is plenty of deer, but go hunt around a Guide services areas, not so plentyfull, too much pressure on the trophy!! If we were to limit buck hunting, it would need to be in those areas, then listen to the guides howl. They would move into other areas and do the same damn thing, cant beat it, just got to make do.