I am still in the tree shaking as I type this at 7:45 am. I just had two mature whitetail doe feeding by me for 30 minutes as I bow hunt. They each had a fawn one was button. I have not seen a mature doe in this area since I killed one 9/15/2015. I do see up to 20 in my Z2 spot. What beautiful animals it will be sad when the last zone 5 doe is killed. It was a pleasure letting them walk and hopefully birth triplets next spring. They have a lot of brown and down to get through first.
Extremely rare animal sighting in DMZ 5
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I am still in the tree shaking as I type this at 7:45 am. I just had two mature whitetail doe feeding by me for 30 minutes as I bow hunt. They each had a fawn one was button. I have not seen a mature doe in this area since I killed one 9/15/2015. I do see up to 20 in my Z2 spot. What beautiful animals it will be sad when the last zone 5 doe is killed. It was a pleasure letting them walk and hopefully birth triplets next spring. They have a lot of brown and down to get through first.
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Where in zone 5 are you? I see deer regularly by me. Just had a group of 6 right under me and saw 5 more 200 yards to my left.
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Near Whittingham - I have seen a steady decline in deer numbers over the past 13 years since hunting this region, but nothing like this year.
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Zone 5 Day 3 saw 1 measly spike on mnday at 9am nothing else so far not even a doe.
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And the state claims the population has been nearly the same for 15 years.
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Zone 5 driven into the dirt
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And Zone 2 is not far behind.
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My butcher that I use is located there....last I saw him a couple weeks ago he even said that he's been real slow...
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Interesting you mention the decline in deer numbers. What has the harvest been over the last 13 years? Has it gone steadily down as well or remained even? Sightings can be skewed but if the harvest numbers are down and the population is down then you can point to poaching and predators. Any EHD up there?
As most hunters up there know, bears have steadily increased over the past 13 years, as have the coyotes and the bobcats. I think there is a poaching issue up there on public land as i've heard.
I just read a field and stream report on deer numbers across the country, some states are down 50 percent some stayed even. Down south biologists report that eighty percent of fawn mortality is from coyotes. I would love to walk the public areas to search for deer skeletons to see how many i find and try to determine cause of death. Coyotes are bad news and need to be culled and bears prey on fawns heavily as well.
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That is probably true BUT the location of the deer has changed. With the building of mega mansions, the deer have move from the wood areas to the mega mansion lots all planted with lots of delicious landscaping and cozy little thickets. They spend most of their lives and usually only venture out with cover of darkness to eat the large piles of corns scattered throughout the zone.
You also have to remember that the Goal of F&G was to REDUCE the herd size to preserve the natural undergrowth. With that in mind, they ar archiving that goal.
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All those people from zone 5 are coming down here zone 50 and slaughtering all the deer. They let nothing walk. One guy even told me he likes to roast whole fawns in the oven!
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Where in Gods name did you here that? I put the the whole buck on the grill, those Zone 50 deer are deeeelisous!!!!
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