This. Most hunters don't want to hunt in the rain. It rained roughly 2/3 of the weekends during deer season (data based off my area of NW NC, but I am betting it's similar throughout state). Bad weather, then throw in some flooding, which not only keeps people from hunting, but alters deer travel patterns as well, and you have all the makings of a "bad season."One word: Weather.
Next year there will be probably be a bumper crop.
This season was the worst weather year I can remember. Hot as balls all the way up to mid-October, hurricanes, and flooding rains every week in December. November was decent, but the rest was terrible.
Be curious to hear your definition of a redneckWe need a reduction in rednecks. The deer herd is down but nobody is willing to slack up on blasting everything that sticks its head out. Until these people start paying attention to management strategies, things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
i had a discussusion with a wise old retired gamewarden a few years back about tag limits ... it only keeps honest club hunting records... ill bet actual number did not drop that much.. but back of the barn covert tagouts became far more prevelant many still hunting scrub rack bucks vanished with no record .. keep more tags get better records
We need a reduction in rednecks. The deer herd is down but nobody is willing to slack up on blasting everything that sticks its head out. Until these people start paying attention to management strategies, things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
Change to two-buck rule in western half of the state back around 2000 resulted in immediate 10 to 12 percent drop in buck harvest, but also in a huge increase in doe harvest. I would have expected, all things considered, about the same drop in buck harvest in eastern NC.
I think y'all confusing rednecks with poachers lets call a poacher for what he is. I know plenty law abiding rednecks