I was shocked to find out that there were no left over buck tags for this area (4). I was going to get one "just in case" I had to defend myself from the onslaught. So this evening before supper I took a drive up around the loop that covers about 25 road miles and only saw 12 deer and NO BUCKS. This is highly unusual for this area, what with all the haying and barley fields around.

It seemed a bit odd this spring that there weren't as many deer as usual. I'm wondering if there wasn't a big winter kill because of the several bad storms we had in late February and on into early March. We'd get a storm and then it would warm up then freeze a crust on the snow. It did this probably 5 or 6 times during that time and it's my thoery that this severely hampered the deer's ability to forage.

It hasn't seemed to affect the antelope population though :mad:

RJ

A friend of mine went horn hunting near Baggs WY this spring ,he said that there were dead & dying deer all over the place. Rough winter

Sounds like Oregon EVERY year!

in the northern hills the deer got buried in the late snowfall. My son took photos of deer in snow drifts, all you could see was their head and upper neck sticking out.

Last couple of years we've really seen a decline of deer sign in the deeper woods. Areas that was teaming with whitetails are almost deserted. Now the best hunting is close to the housing developments. I'm wondering if it isn't lion depredation taking the toil?

Well, Baggs is just 40 miles away, so it's all starting to make sense now. RATS!! It'll be interesting to see how tihs winter turns out. It's already colling off it seems. Temps in the high 60's and low 70's in mid-August is kind of odd. I'd better lay in some extra coal!

RJ

about winter of 83-84 or 84-85 between Sunbeam & Brown's Park antelope were plowed to the side of the road,a lot of deer & antelope died that winter ,took several years to recover.
I probably won't even use my area 11 doe tag this fall, I drew a fall bear tag& no muzzleloading elk tag this year probably gonna spend a lot of time grouse hunting in sept,
probably see lots of elk ,no grouse or bear but you can;t never tell.
I picked up a left over cow tag for 2nd season rifle fri for 214 near Hans Peak

Any information on Colorado's unit 18/28 deer population this year. I drew a buck tag there and was planning to hold off for a bruiser since I still have some of last year's harvest left.

Also drew an either sex 1st rifle season elk tag for unit 28, so I'm thinking of getting an otc archery cow elk tag (as a 2nd license) and going scouting next month. Last year I didn't hunt elk (spent the time archery hunting deer in Pennsylvania) - the previous 2 years elk were scarce in the part of 28 I usually hunt, in contrast to prior years.

Wisconsin. record sized herd this year, but we don't have as many wolves, and our winters have not been as tough. Where we hunt by my Pa's, I think you can get tags for does until your freezer overfloweth.

We usually take 1 deer each, which is plenty--for now. Kids get older probably need 2-3 just to feed them.

I understand that #s are down here right now. I don't know the ins and outs of it but the pop. is still high. They gave us a few less anterless weekends I think. We can still kill 10 total.