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Post by meateater on Apr 2, 2024 14:05:05 GMT -5
till we apply for the chance to be corraled in for 3 days with other lucky hunters on what some would call public land. 8 preference points for general gun this year , will i get my number one pick this year.
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Apr 2, 2024 14:14:37 GMT -5
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Post by Crkr 23 on Apr 2, 2024 14:14:37 GMT -5
I missed drawing a quota one year with 9 pts, so there's that. What's funny is that I drew the same permit the year before and had to return because of a late planned out of state hunt.
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Post by meateater on Apr 3, 2024 12:04:15 GMT -5
this should be my last year deer hunting in south florida , 40 plus years on 20 plus wmas and they all suck compared to what they were years ago. guys who started deer hunting in south florida in the last 20 years or so have no clue how bad the management of the deer has been.
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Post by pinman on Apr 3, 2024 22:41:52 GMT -5
this should be my last year deer hunting in south florida , 40 plus years on 20 plus wmas and they all suck compared to what they were years ago. guys who started deer hunting in south florida in the last 20 years or so have no clue how bad the management of the deer has been. 40 years ago South Florida was only 50 years from being straight up wilderness.....thank Willis Carrier for the transformation....
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Post by olmucky on Apr 8, 2024 13:05:18 GMT -5
this should be my last year deer hunting in south florida , 40 plus years on 20 plus wmas and they all suck compared to what they were years ago. guys who started deer hunting in south florida in the last 20 years or so have no clue how bad the management of the deer has been. Is it mismanagement or a combo: In a 2012 study, scientists showed that sightings of raccoons, opossums, bobcats, rabbits, foxes, and other mammals in the region have declined more than 80 percent since the mid-1990s.
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Apr 8, 2024 14:28:20 GMT -5
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Post by flatlander49 on Apr 8, 2024 14:28:20 GMT -5
Panthers and pythons had Don a double whammy on deer in South Florida. Had a former ENP superintendent tell me face to face the small mammals were nearly gone around 2010-2012 timeframe. Few years ago we saw several shooter bucks on camera before season. By the time of archery opening and through ML we saw none. And not much in the way of does either.
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Apr 9, 2024 8:09:01 GMT -5
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Post by One Man Gang on Apr 9, 2024 8:09:01 GMT -5
Chalk up the decline of productive public land deer/all hunting in MOST of South Florida to the following 3 things:
1. Urban sprawl/ growth.
2. The invasion of invasives; including humans (see growth above), plants, and animals.
3. Poor public land management; particularly the unnaturally sustained high water levels. This also includes the overall management through politics rather than sound science. You can also pencil in a overabundance of locked/limited/greatly hindered access where there should not be any, or where there should be more.
This is the story behind the woes of South Florida deer hunting.
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Post by meateater on Apr 9, 2024 11:37:53 GMT -5
Chalk up the decline of productive public land deer/all hunting in MOST of South Florida to the following 3 things: 1. Urban sprawl/ growth. 2. The invasion of invasives; including humans (see growth above), plants, and animals. 3. Poor public land management; particularly the unnaturally sustained high water levels. This also includes the overall management through politics rather than sound science. You can also pencil in a overabundance of locked/limited/greatly hindered access where there should not be any, or where there should be more. This is the story behind the woes of South Florida deer hunting. poor land management overall, which includes unnatural water levels, predators, not enough prescribed burning and some poaching. fwc continues to restrict public land hunting thru quotas, antler restrictions, access points,no ebikes and 100 other rules when none of this is a problem. when a cougar gives you a boner but a ten point buck with 6 doe in tow makes you limp you got your priorities screwed up. oh by the way cougars are now hunting turkeys big time in big cypress, calling them in is easier then calling in a big gobbler you wont see this on the news or fwc,s website just more restrictions on hunters.
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Apr 9, 2024 14:31:25 GMT -5
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Post by nuthinfancy on Apr 9, 2024 14:31:25 GMT -5
I know several packs of hog dogs that have become fond of treeing the cats. Would love to see what a pack of genuine lion hounds could do down here.
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Post by meateater on Apr 10, 2024 8:57:27 GMT -5
I know several packs of hog dogs that have become fond of treeing the cats. Would love to see what a pack of genuine lion hounds could do down here. your probably under investigation now for just thinking about that.
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Post by walkerdog on Apr 10, 2024 17:54:01 GMT -5
Actually, the panther biologists were looking for a new houndsman not too long before Roy died. Pretty particular on what the dogs needed to be like though. Most curs are biters, so they wouldn’t meet the required specs.
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Apr 10, 2024 21:14:37 GMT -5
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Post by nuthinfancy on Apr 10, 2024 21:14:37 GMT -5
I know several packs of hog dogs that have become fond of treeing the cats. Would love to see what a pack of genuine lion hounds could do down here. your probably under investigation now for just thinking about that. Haha you’re probably right. Just for the record to any officer reading this, the above post was for comedic purposes only and I have never intended or attempted to harass or harm our beloved state mammal.
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Post by JS84 on May 7, 2024 13:12:10 GMT -5
With having property now in the North part of the state, I'm looking to apply for quotas at WMAs in the state I had not previously considered. Where I'm running in to trouble is determining what are the better WMAs to apply for. Harvest data is incomplete or non-existent for some areas. How else would you determine otherwise? Is it just historical knowledge?
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May 7, 2024 14:41:01 GMT -5
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Post by Crkr 23 on May 7, 2024 14:41:01 GMT -5
You can look at some harvest reports at hunterstoolbox.gooutdoorsflorida. It wasn't easy for me to figure how to use, I'm not tech savvy. I used it in turkey season checking on what WMAs produced. When we checked a bird in it showed up in the wmas report almost immediately.
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Post by pinman on May 7, 2024 17:03:20 GMT -5
With having property now in the North part of the state, I'm looking to apply for quotas at WMAs in the state I had not previously considered. Where I'm running in to trouble is determining what are the better WMAs to apply for. Harvest data is incomplete or non-existent for some areas. How else would you determine otherwise? Is it just historical knowledge? If you have a place to stay overnight at your property Id probably just pick the closest place for deer an then learn it. Theres deer in just about any WMA (disclosure; I suck at deer hunting). Turkeys arent at as many places so that might take more investigation.
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