DaveKing -
You don't have to shoot the does just because you have the tags. It appears that MD has a bigger problem with crop damage than WI.
V
I shoot deer that are legal for the hunting area. If I had wanted to shoot only bucks I could have done that too but I didn't see one that was big enough to bother killing.
I was not trying to manage the deer population in WI, I was hunting within my legal limit.
Parts of Maryland have a deer problem. It comes from the amount of land locked up as non-hunting and the proximity of crops. The places I shoot crop damage are backed up to parks and urban zones. THE MD DNR has recently begun opening up these parks to hunting but even then the kill is insufficient by the standards used to determine and issue crop damage permits. Hunters are not the answer in many cases, it seems hunters are reluctant to shoot does in sufficient numbers to decrease the population.
