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<blockquote data-quote="retrieverman" data-source="post: 2415455" data-attributes="member: 24452">I actually live between Appleby and Nacogdoches.&nbsp; I drive a tractor for a living and have a lot of &quot;thinking&quot; time, and I have been thinking about the direction this thread has taken.&nbsp; Ya&#039;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&amp;#8230;.(insert any rural community) think about all you OKC, Tulsa, and Edmond folks invading their area during hunting season?&nbsp; You lease up the land, take up &quot;their&quot; space at the convenience store, and make them have to wait at the local hamburger joint.&nbsp; I guess what I&#039;m saying is it&#039;s really all relative.&nbsp; I will also bet that the local farmers leasing land to out of staters aren&#039;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.&nbsp; 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).&nbsp; Now I am no biologist, but that seems a little out of balance to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="retrieverman, post: 2415455, member: 24452"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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