Whitetail Deer Management in Oklahoma........

[fishfurlife]

Lol. I spent $775 just to get an Elk tag in NM and it's what nearly $500 in KS to get legal to hunt a deer there??

It's pretty cheap to hunt here as a NR. Heck, you can get 6 tags(that include 2 antlered tags) for less than $300 here as a NR. That's cheap. No matter how you slice it.

 

[fishfurlife]

LMAO this was originally about whitetail management. You know what is out of control, urban sprawl and human population growth.

Listen. I get real soap boxy about some things but I can get extremely soap boxy about this subject.

 

[AllOut]

Lol. I spent $775 just to get an Elk tag in NM and it's what nearly $500 in KS to get legal to hunt a deer there??

It's pretty cheap to hunt here as a NR. Heck, you can get 6 tags(that include 2 antlered tags) for less than $300 here as a NR. That's cheap. No matter how you slice it.

It's like $395 for a license and one tag in Kansas. Plus you have to draw in as a non resident.
Hell up until 2008 even residents had to draw!!!

 

[fishfurlife]

Dang it. That was a typo in my behalf. I need to revisit KS chasing deer. I had fun the last time I hunted up there.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

Listen. I get real soap boxy about some things but I can get extremely soap boxy about this subject.

I am listening.

 

[Okie4570]

Dang it. That was a typo in my behalf. I need to revisit KS chasing deer. I had fun the last time I hunted up there.

Feel free, I started the thread, you have my blessing

 

[Sticky Stokes]

I will give ya'll this. As a group, you Okies are arrogant when it comes to your deer hunting, but I got news for you. I know at least a hundred guys locally who hunt Kansas, and I don't a soul in my area who hunts Oklahoma. They may flock across from border towns or DFW, but folks ain't doing nothing but fueling up in OK to get to KS coming from my area. Heck, I wouldn't hunt up there if we didn't own land.

We are not arrogant....just possessive......and this is good news! I hope they keep driving through Oklahoma and buying gas here and keep on moving till they get to Kansas to hunt! Of course, Retrieverman, we consider you an Okie so you don't count! I was born and raised mostly in Texas, Conroe, Nacogdoches and Appleby but I have lived in Oklahoma longer than anywhere else so I am an Okie through and through now. And I love our Oklahoma deer hunting!

 

[AllOut]

I'm possessive over the deer everywhere I hunt.
They're ALL MINE! Y'all leave my deer alone!!!!

 

[retrieverman]

We are not arrogant....just possessive......and this is good news! I hope they keep driving through Oklahoma and buying gas here and keep on moving till they get to Kansas to hunt! Of course, Retrieverman, we consider you an Okie so you don't count! I was born and raised mostly in Texas, Conroe, Nacogdoches and Appleby but I have lived in Oklahoma longer than anywhere else so I am an Okie through and through now. And I love our Oklahoma deer hunting!

I actually live between Appleby and Nacogdoches.

I drive a tractor for a living and have a lot of "thinking" time, and I have been thinking about the direction this thread has taken. Ya'll hate to see out of staters coming into OK to hunt, but have you ever considered what the locals in Cherokee, Jet, Alva, or….(insert any rural community) think about all you OKC, Tulsa, and Edmond folks invading their area during hunting season? You lease up the land, take up "their" space at the convenience store, and make them have to wait at the local hamburger joint. I guess what I'm saying is it's really all relative.

I will also bet that the local farmers leasing land to out of staters aren't too upset to see them coming when they have their check book ready to pay those stupidly priced lease fees.



To get back on topic, I would support a combined season limit of one buck, and I would even support making a hunter shoot a doe before they can kill a buck. This would be hard to enforce, but it would at least encourage the taking of does.

I know that deer population densities vary in other parts of the state, but north of Hwy 11 along the Salt Fork about a mile west of the refuge, I have seen as many as 70 does/yearlings in one group (not a forked antler in the bunch). Now I am no biologist, but that seems a little out of balance to me.

 

[Sticky Stokes]

I actually live between Appleby and Nacogdoches.

I drive a tractor for a living and have a lot of "thinking" time, and I have been thinking about the direction this thread has taken. Ya'll hate to see out of staters coming into OK to hunt, but have you ever considered what the locals in Cherokee, Jet, Alva, or….(insert any rural community) think about all you OKC, Tulsa, and Edmond folks invading their area during hunting season? You lease up the land, take up "their" space at the convenience store, and make them have to wait at the local hamburger joint. I guess what I'm saying is it's really all relative.

I will also bet that the local farmers leasing land to out of staters aren't too upset to see them coming when they have their check book ready to pay those stupidly priced lease fees.



To get back on topic, I would support a combined season limit of one buck, and I would even support making a hunter shoot a doe before they can kill a buck. This would be hard to enforce, but it would at least encourage the taking of does.

I know that deer population densities vary in other parts of the state, but north of Hwy 11 along the Salt Fork about a mile west of the refuge, I have seen as many as 70 does/yearlings in one group (not a forked antler in the bunch). Now I am no biologist, but that seems a little out of balance to me.

Lol....small world! I love that part of Texas, it is really nice. And your right, I'm sure all the locals in those small communities hate when us "city-slickers" show up in their counties to hunt, but I generally don't. I hunt my farm in Logan County, and 2 farms I have permission on, one in Logan County and one in Pottowatomie County, I am fortunate to have places close to Edmond to hunt.