Has anyone went from not liking them to liking them or liking them to not liking them or is your opinion of them still the same whether you have always liked them or not?

WTF????

i dont have ars. so its all good to me! curly are u drinkin again?!

You must be gettin' bored with the Black Panther thread andwith Cameron

Now there's a smart man!

or maybe

Just switched leases this year so I couldn't tell you if they affected the deer one way or the other

AR's were great in my area......

Kept me from shooting this deer....




tgt

Looks like a cull to me but if it weren't for the restrictions, you would have a choice to shoot it or not? Would you have wanted to shoot it?

my opinion remains the same.

I have been hunting AR counties for over 5 years and yet to see a legal one. With that said I do not like them and even if next year the woods were full of monsters which I doubt I would not like them. When I hunt I should be given limits on only how many not by size.

probably

he not only a cull but he looks mature to me but I am no biologist

i still like em. and im hunting in one of the orig counties and several that were added the second year.

In all 4 counties, i like the results we are seeing. Def better deer in Lavaca and Victoria counties at our places there.


I didnt like them for the first few years, but ive seen the change, and i wont lie.... i like shooting larger deer lol.

Which is....

there was no problem needing to be fixed. Can't preach ratio balance and dish out a freebie yearling buck tag.

Tell me yours and I'll tell ya mine!!!

Now it is getting good..

Mine's the same. Hate 'em. Wasn't hurting enough to need them. Nobody in our area was griping because we didn't have enough mature bucks running around. So now they make us size up antler width before shooting to make more mature bucks, yet they allow us to shoot an extra buck, which could legally be a young spike and providing you're not on LAMPS, let you shoot more doe. Hahaha, I'm sure eveyone knew my stance hasn't changed but hey, you asked!

I liked the idea when they were first introduced and now like them even more. I just like to see mature bucks on a consistent basis and thanks to AR's I do. I did not pull the trigger at all this year but saw plenty that were legal. If I want meat I will take a doe.

Let me see Curly!!! I did not like them before and hate them now!!!

I was somewhat excited when they were first announced 3 or so years ago. We've always had wide bucks, but not too many mature bucks.

This year I saw very few legal bucks and the only mature bucks I saw were barely legal. However, I do know of at least three different 2.5 year old bucks that were shot by neighbors that were technically legal, but not near mature.

I'll give them another year or so before condemning them completely, but I don't like the trend as it relates to me.

I will admit that some other changes have occurred over the last couple of years that have made a negative impact. The main one being that I've gained one set of really bad neighbors and another set that I haven't really figured out yet, but question.

The other place I hunt is on year 5 or 6 and I've seen no effect whatsoever. However, that place is 12,000 acres with very little pressure right next to 18,000 acres with no pressure at all, so the herd is basically just natural as there are no management practices whatsoever.

Curly you know how i feel about em! After 5yrs and see fewer and fewer deer every year TPW can stick em! [you know where]

I wish everyone would list counties where you like them or dislike them.

I like them in Archer; hate them in Red River/Fannin/Lamar/Delta