I hunt in Young county and HATE the AR's.

after getting a property from some "if it's legal it's eaten" folks (nothing wrong with that if that's their goal), lets see what having ARs for 5 seasons has done on a property....

Looks like its working wonders for ya rifleman! Thats twice the bucks i have seen all season but racks are the same. lol. Can we say thanks TPW?

I never saw any of those bucks, just found out how the place was hunted and ran trail cam surveys. Not looking good except on the pork side of things.

You were to busy shooting hogs to see any bucks on that place anyway! Them bucks heard that war and thought they were under the old management plan!

I like eating Deer i canot lie- Dang ARs i wonder why- Looking for horns not I ,not I.

they are going to think war, but we've just been toying with them so far...I haven't set up 20yds from the feeder loaded down with buckshot yet, but that will change next time we go in. There's about 80acres we didn't mess with that might have a little better showing, just have to find a way to do something with it w/o an access road being obvious from the highway.

I like the ar

Why? Young county is not known for basket racks?

I can also post 9 pictures of young deer off my ranch that don't make 13"s. At the same time I can also post 9 pictures of mature deer that do.

If you are against AR's because of the increased harvest numbers - I get it
If you are against AR's because you can't cull - I kind of get it (only seen one in 5 years on my ranch)
If are against any regulation (I think this is the majority) - I don't get it

Use to hear it ALL the time "I am a meat hunter, horns don't matter to me." Yet, what was the first thing put down (while passing on the other 15 does) the only young buck in the group.

that is every buck I have pics of on that place, I'm not picking out young ones, spread has nothing to do with it. Photos are a respresentation of age structure.

Letsgo, I don't understand why you think that everybody who are against AR's are just going to go out and shot the 1st buck they see!!! Obviously, you are in a County that doesn't have the "narrow" rack genetics that some of us in East Texas have to contend with!!! In Tyler County I see several bucks in a year and believe that if they just cut the limit to 1 buck, a lot more of the young bucks would survive and the age structure of the herd, (reason for AR's in the first place), would improve!!!

Parker County and I don't like AR's at all.

I had 2 legal, mature bucks on camera last season and an assortment of narrow funky looking young and some semi mature bucks that don't look like they will ever reach 13" inside.

This season 1 legal 2.5 y/o and same narrow funky looking guys from last year eating corn and spreading their inferior genes.

Now given the choice would you rather shoot the young legal buck or one of the narrow older bucks?

As of last year I am no longer allowed to make that decision.

"find a new lease" some say. Its family land. My family owns the land and the state owns the game so we just have to deal with it.

Not the group of hunters I know there. They still have yet to see a legal buck in 5 years. I have hunted (as an invited guest) there and nothing but small narrow racks. Now tell me how long has this county been under AR's? Seems like the same narrow bucks breeding and spreading thier genetics.

What happened to making my own decisions about what I want to shoot and have my son, daughter or grandchildren shoot. My land, my feed, my time invested so why do I need someone else telling me what I can and can't shoot.
I am all about taking care of my land and our resources but I sure as heck don/t need the TWPD telling me how to do it.
Guess that expresses my opinion pretty clearly

Amazing! Looks like my gcam pics from Tyler Co.

Cooke county and they don't bother me really most of the deer I seen that were mature deer had a good spread but still have the young ones that need to grow

This was our first year of the AR's so I shouldn't have a opinion yet but as a rancher I am in the country every day and I like seeing all the mature bucks that are still around after season this year if the AR's had any thing to do with it. On the downside I also see alot of cull bucks I wish someone would have harvested but couldn't because of the AR's.

yeah, this is why I mentioned on the "What would you change?" thread that I wish they'd let kids take culls during youth seasons. Just add a "youth tag" to any licensee under 16yo, good for any deer during any youth season. We've spent the past 18 years on my place taking out little basket-racked bastages, now I'm afraid they might get a whole new foothold and take over again just out of sheer numerical superiority. I'd love to be able to have a few kids out every year to keep them in check. I bet such a change would open up a LOT of youth hunting opportunity!

I was fully expecting to see quite a few 3.5yr olds, but that wasn't the case.

Before ar we could only shoot bucks in gun season! only does that could be shot was archery only.

Limestone, 2nd year no legal bucks seen, would like to see the spike tag go away.....

Red River Co.... only legal buck seen this year, I saw him everytime I went hunting this year,(5 weekends) A spike, passed on him every time but the last day I hunted, I shot him because i like venison and didnt wanna go a year without....... I hate AR's, saw 7 basket rack 8's and one 9...older deer... never will be shooters...........yeah.... that helps the "wide rack" gene pool

It's all about the health of the herd.

Ya'll just don't understand. When there are no more deer, we can claim the healthiest herd in the country.

Oh, wait, we had that before didn't we?