antler restrictions and button bucks

[hillbill]

tell me what i am missing here. i spend my hard earned money to purchase a super sportsman for my wife my 16 year old daughter and my self as well as what it cost to get a jr lic for my 14 yr old son. we all get muzzleloader and trapping lic as well.

 the only people pitching a fit is those of you who have to feed your ego buy the burning desire to shoot a deer you deem to be a trophy. We all look thru different eyes, mine happen to see the excitment and joy we get as a family over the harvest of any legal buck 3" on one side. this is they way it was with my grandfather,my father and now me as a father. the time spent at the table over a pan full of back straps smothered in mushroons and onions, that just in lic fees cost as much as a lot of steak dinners. what dose it matter we just shot a spike its dead you are not going to get a chance to harvest it as a bigger buck. you dont hunt where we hunt its our land we pay the taxes and its posted.

heres a tip save you breath and money and book a hunt with and outfitter.

eggzactly.just curious tho what are yu guys paying to hunt on your own land?here im MO we get all our bow deer and turkey permits and one any deer tag, free if yu own a certain amount of property. just curious.

[DANNY-L]

hillbill you say you get a free tag for land owners,do you have to take a deer on your own land? Here in ny landowners of 50 acres or more get a free dmp but they can take a deer anywhere they choose within the wmu it is given for. I think landowners who do get a free dmp should be restricted to useing that tag on their own land if they choose to take a antlerless deer. I know people with several hundred acres of land that wont shoot a doe on there own land but will go somewhere else to fill it,even though they are over populated with doe's.

[mspaci]

I dont think those permits are free, just guarenteed to get one if you apply. Mike

[DANNY-L]

50 acres or more are free and gauranteed in wmu that issue dmp's

[k]

good thread, lots of different opinions. thats what makes america great.im not forced to believe what yu do and your not forced to believe what i do.i shot a button this year, i studied it carefully thru 10x binocs and a 12x scope.it was small and just what i was looking for.could not determine sex.one carefully placed neck shot later it was in my freezer with minimal meat damage.im basically what yu would call a subsistence hunter.ive found that the smaller deer are better eating, thats my opinion, yurs may differ.small deer have smaller percentage of chance of surviveing the winter here.yu may be a trophy hunter and see that button as a potential 12 pt buk. that may be.i see it as a to add delicous meat to my larder.i let several healthy small antlered bucks walk because they were 2 or better years old and had a larger percentage chance of makeing a trophy buk, well that my son will enjoy shooting lol.jus because yu are a triophy hunter does not mean yu can dictate what a man does within the law to feed himself or his family.or judge him as to what he shoots.manage your deer and property as yu see fit but dont flame sumone else for thier methods of manageing their deer and property.

well said....karl

[hillbill]

here in MO, yes your archery deer and turky and 1 any deer permit are free.i think then for 7 buks i got another antlerless tag.yes you do have to then hunt on your own land only with these tags.im not sure if you can then purchase regular tags to kill more deer or not.everything is computerized so im sure they keep track of at least what tags yu have.

[dks7895]

I also live in MO and qualify for land owner tags.  It is my understanding that you cannot double down.  Meaning if you get a free land owner tag you cannot also purchase a tag.  I purchase all my tags so I am not limited to only my land. 

[mspaci]

I just checked the DEC website & it says $10 fee unless you have a lifetime license. My bud in Verona Ny had to pay for his on 90 acres.  Mike

[DANNY-L]

I would check again because I know of some landowners that dont,I'll check for sure also.

[mspaci]

I hope it is free, it should be. I know in Ct. landowners hunt free for everything on their own land.  Mike

[DANNY-L]

I did more checking and it is $10 but they do get a dmp because of preference. More or less they are first on the list.