Doe tag reductions

[Hunter John]

While this past winter definitely plays a part in the reduced tags and I believe its a good thing and I am sure there are areas that still support a decent deer population. What I know is that the last few years running trail cams in our area is moose outnumber deer 3 to 1. Bear seems to be about 4 to 1 wolf about 2 to 1 and way more turkeys than deer.
Just curious but do you get your tree tops from Connway?

[pbonura]

Nice to see they MNR make changes in those areas that were impacted this past winter. I hunt in southern ontario and have no change to our numbers. Wmu 87 is the same. Also 79d for gun and no change.

[trimmer21]

Well just the moose tag allocation the mnr has dropped the doe tag allocations in most areas.. my area 73 will see a reduction from 2100 tags last year to 1600 this year and area 72a will go from 800 to 600 . looks like there is going to be more strategic applications this year with deer as well as moose

I've been doing some heavy duty bush cruisin' in 73 since turkey started and I gotta tell ya,it doesn't look good. Turkey was down a lot this year and I haven't whacked a 'yote since March of last year. Last fall Deer hunt was a bust,too,except on several farms around Millbrook and Pontypool where bow hunters cleaned up. Even on the ATV last week,there's very little sign. This fall could be another tough year.

[fishy steve]

went from 1600 to 1200 in 48... i was one of the 12% that didnt draw a tag last year, so will have a harder chance this year... ah well never shot a doe before only bucks... even though last year the does were practically trying to get shot... guess they know lol

[delmer]

My early bow hunt, WNU 46, from 2000 to 450 tags!!!! 78% cut....

And where I live, from 22in s0 to 500....... I guess all the deer I'm seen must be buck without antlers!

Northern deer hunters are starting to feel the moose hunters pain. At least you can still hunt an antlered animal. Waiting to see how the WMUs for the controlled hunt are affected.

[Deerslayer99]

Wow.......75% reduction in 49......where I hunt there is tons of does........doesn't make sense to me to have that huge of a reduction....we just went back 25 yrs again to a 25% success rate....unbelievable!!!!

[impact]

Ouch, WMU 67 just got spanked. How could it go from being able to buy 7 additional tags not so long ago to a mere 400 available tags for over 5,000 applicants. Glad I sold my properties and moved on!

WMU QUOTA 1ST 2ND % CHANCE (2013)
67 800 3,417 1,939 23
400 (2014)

[werner.reiche]

I like the move by MNR. I've always felt they moved the quotas about 10 years late (after a significant change in deer pops). It seems they are being more pro-active now.

[terrym]

If we were to have another brutal winter this year and the harvest isn't cut we could looking at years to recover. Time to manage the herd intelligently I say.

[seabast]

Northern deer hunters are starting to feel the moose hunters pain. At least you can still hunt an antlered animal. Waiting to see how the WMUs for the controlled hunt are affected.

You got that one right! But our deer camp on 60 has not been affected so I can't complain to much.....