Your not getting the drift of the message brother. If I can take 3 bucks in my county why does it matter if I take them in Nov or Feb. Give me a biological reason.

BTW, my ranch is better managed than most I have seen that are on MLDs. I just prefer not to participate in it.

what would these solve?

This would give the herd a chance to produce many more mature bucks. It would eliminate the "hunters" who climb into their box blinds thirty minutes before their automatic feeders go off and then blast the first 8 pt. buck that walks in to feed like a cow.

This would give the herd a chance to produce many more mature bucks. It would eliminate the "hunters" who climb into their box blinds thirty minutes before their automatic feeders go off and then blast the first 8 pt. buck that walks in to feed like a cow.

I kill just about every deer by using a tailgate or road feeder. Much better than any spin feeder. Best management tool there is in my opinion. A coffee can full of corn killed many a yearling buck back in the day before spin feeders also.

one 13" buck with rifle and one 13" buck with bow, that way after I shoot a 13" buck with the rifle I could continue to buck hunt, odds much lower you will kill one with a bow in east texas

So AR counties could hunt Aug-mid Oct then cut off... sounds like a plan Would be some big deer hitting the ground in August

Since MLD was set up for density of HF (originally), and now the state feels burdened and "needs" to charge for their efforts.

Just remove the MLD program. Let the folks with captive herds shoot under the general season limits, bring in hunters if desired, or turn out the excess deer. (i.e. open the gates) to get the pressure off their habitat.

the reason is statewide age structure, we can't be havinging discussions and age & score threads still in Feb with 3.75, 4.75, etc responses. Bucks are run down after rut and trying to find any way possible to put on fat storage and they would get slaughtered. I'm a firm believer that the best time to kill bucks isn't Oct, Nov, Dec...it's Jan & Feb when they need your handouts the most

Well, if it gets overburdened, my neighbors could shoot 'em.....

well we could dump them too,along with mld.

Exactly! I wouldnt even hunt until mid Dec if I could go into Feb. Also, if I can kill 3 bucks per the regs for my county, I could still slaughter them in Oct, Nov, Dec. In Feb, I would have a better chance at getting 3 mature bucks, instead of 3 immature bucks from the current season. Again, not saying I would or do, but think the extended rifle seasons for MLD is out of touch with what is really taking place on those ranches. If it is biologically ok for those ranches to harvest deer with a rifle from Oct 1 to Feb 28th then it should be ok of the rest of us guys as well.

AR's are not a big deal - and they are going to spread to more of the state, mostly because of the drought, but there was a push in the TPWD to do it before the drought.

Automatic spin feeders are for people that are lazy or don't know how to hunt. I promise you, if you will end your addiction to automatic spin feeders you will come across much bigger bucks than you have ever seen on your property. I have no problem with baiting - I just hait spin feeders.

If you guys would ever hunt other areas of the country, you would see what the banning of automatic spin feeders would get you - bigger bucks or at lease exposure to bigger bucks.

I bow hunt and I use corn like crazy - but I use it in transition zones that the deer pass to get to food (and yes, sometimes feeders). Believe me, it works.

Anyway, I would like to see an earlier start to bow season and the elimination of automatic spin feeders. I think it would really move our hunting up another notch.

AR's are not a big deal - and they are going to spread to more of the state, mostly because of the drought, but there was a push in the TPWD to do it before the drought.

Automatic spin feeders are for people that are lazy or don't know how to hunt. I promise you, if you will end your addiction to automatic spin feeders you will come across much bigger bucks than you have ever seen on your property. I have no problem with baiting - I just hait spin feeders.

If you guys would ever hunt other areas of the country, you would see what the banning of automatic spin feeders would get you - bigger bucks or at lease exposure to bigger bucks.

I bow hunt and I use corn like crazy - but I use it in transition zones that the deer pass to get to food (and yes, sometimes feeders). Believe me, it works.

Anyway, I would like to see an earlier start to bow season and the elimination of automatic spin feeders. I think it would really move our hunting up another notch.

This. But my reasoning is reversed:if I shoot a good buck with the bow I would like to be able to keep hunting a good one with the rifle.As you pointed out,I believe the impact on the deer herd would be minimal but this rule would positively effect hunter participation.

But on the whole I am fine with things the way they are in my county.