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Originally Posted by Patty in Wisc
Hunters here didn't do as good as other years. Some didn't even see a deer. Used to be that they'd open another hunt season for them because of overpopulation but not anymore. This summer I saw road kill (deer) all over going north of here but we just came from up north & I didn't see any deer except ones strapped on back of cars. I hear the wolves & bears are killing them. Bears are killing fawns & wolves are now overpopulated.
The hunters were dissappointed this year. 12 friends of ours hunted for 9 days at their cabin & came home w/ 2 doe & a small buck. Darn wolves & bears are wiping out the deer!
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I have a 10 acre property on Hartstene Island (10 miles long x 4 miles at the widest point) on Puget Sound, and since they allowed shotguns to hunt deer on the island, hunting season is virtually over after a couple of days because the deer is so tame. It used to be that you can only use bow or cross-bow to hunt them, but their population was getting so big that they opened it up to shotguns. My property is undeveloped and has no fence so hunters just park their cars on the main highway, about 5 to 6 blocks away, and just set up on my property sometimes.
Over here harvesting of does is not allowed. "If it ain't got no horns, you can't shoot it!" I think its the same thing in Alaska, if I remember correctly.