I hunt Zone 17...........I am by no means rich.....I work (hard) for a living like 99% of the people on here do!!! 5 Months of Deer season in zone 17? Too bad it's not true...to my knowledge...our season opens the same day as the rest of the state...it closes 1 week later..or so, given the Christmas hunt and the last ML hunt 11 If it is 5 months, show me the proof!!!! cause I've hunted there for years, and we've NEVER had 5 Months.....unless of course, you add bow season, but the rest of the state gets it too!! Yes we do get doe management tags...1 per member, That's 25 in the club I am in!!! as far as other management restrictions...we have a youth hunt, but it is still restricted the same as gun season...3 points with 15" spread or 18" beams...must meet 2 of the 3..........even for a 6 year old kid!!! Actually, our regs are tougher, he Owner/timber Company management goals are higher than the Game and fish. I have gone 3 years without killing a buck, but I saw shooters, just wasn't exactly sure, and didn't want to pay a fine (club0 or loose another buck, if the first I shot wasn't management legal!!!!!
the turkey population is down from
previous years...can remember seeing up to almost 100 birds in a flock in deer season, in the early 90's...now maybe 6-8 tops anytime of year!!!!! unless it is a hen with 8-10 polts, but the predators might get half of them..or more!!
As far as WO's......they can come and go as they please...AND THEY DO...REGULARLY.we are subject to the same rules as you...NO SPECIAL PRIVILEGES...THEY WILL WRITE US AS FAST IF NOT FASTER THAN YOU!!! the last WO we had was a good person, and a dang good WO..he did his job, like he was supposed to...I still consider him a friend...NO he never wrote me a ticket, but I never gave him a reason too either!!! The NEW WO...he's out to make a name for himself, so we all had better have out T's crossed and I's dotted......we saw him almost daily during the deer season!!! the old one, we used to see a bout once or twice a week, but he had a large area to cover, by himself!!
as far as being a 'fairhaired child'.......I've got blonde hair, what little I've got, but I am no different than you are...well I probably am.I work for a living, I have bills, I was given the opportunity to hunt in Zone 17, rather than here there and yonder, but I opted to hunt there, and it costs me close to $2k a year, sometimes more, of MY hard earned money, but I enjoy it, if I didn't hunt there, I'd spend it hunting here there and yonder!!!
We have deer , duck, squirrel, turkey, rabbits, hog, coyote, bear and fish, and bobcatall in one lease...when it's not hunting season, I can ride my wheeler, go out to the river and swim or fish or play...so I get my money's worth year round..and if it matters last season, 2007, I killed 2 doe, and Gunner's Mate killed 1 doe and a bobcat!!!!!!!!!
all I ask, show me some proff of a 5 month deer season, and WOs not being allowed to enter/ question anyone behind the levee in Zone 17!!!!!!!!