Additional deer seals 2016

Scientific reason, none at all. The reason is easy. When all the one week a year hunters submit there surveys and complain there is no deer. I heard that same complaint 40 times last season. I seen lots of deer but put my time in. Ministry has no money to do actual counts. When the mass of shotgun hunters that get one week extremely out number deer hunters in general this happens. Most hunt 2 to 3 days.

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Originally Posted by kokes

Alot of deer in both 80 and 87 I'm absolutely puzzled as to why no additional tags...

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I'm shocked by 80 too. Definetly no shortage of deer there last year and they had an easy winter.

Lots of speculations but anyone really know how we might be able to find out how/why deer tags are calculated in each WMU.....Some transparency and accountability would be nice

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Originally Posted by fratri

Lots of speculations but anyone really know how we might be able to find out how/why deer tags are calculated in each WMU.....Some transparency and accountability would be nice

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Put in a call to the MNRF. it's a toll free number, get the info directly from the source.

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Originally Posted by Farmer G

Scientific reason, none at all. The reason is easy. When all the one week a year hunters submit there surveys and complain there is no deer. I heard that same complaint 40 times last season. I seen lots of deer but put my time in. Ministry has no money to do actual counts. When the mass of shotgun hunters that get one week extremely out number deer hunters in general this happens. Most hunt 2 to 3 days.

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why are the guys who only hunt deer one week with a shotgun not "deer hunters" ?

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Originally Posted by Farmer G

. When all the one week a year hunters submit there surveys and complain there is no deer. I heard that same complaint 40 times last season. I seen lots of deer but put my time in.

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Some truth in that; if you look at my camp, 3/4 of them would fill out a survey response with "did not see any deer"...I hunt the same bush and saw lots, shot one 45 minutes opening morn. Trail cams in the same bush showed lots of deer. But the majority sat and complained the deer numbers are way down because 'they' didn't see any.

And it doesn't help when the circumstances were a very hard winter the previous year, followed by a Fall hunt season where people reported not seeing deer. Immediate correlation is "hard winter killed too many deer".

The majority of people I know had terrible luck during the rifle hunt. It was the late-season bow hunters who actually saw signs of the rut, who actually saw deer. The deer around my place disappeared for most of November, but when they came back there were just as many.

During my few Turkey outings in 92B I seen many set's of multiple deer. In fact Deer out numbered Turkeys big time... lol

Last year was a strange year the deer went nocturnal and it stated that way all season. Lots on trail cam but I only had one come out in day lite.
Lots of deer in 94 and 92 but only one allowed per year.

This is troublesome...