deer season has opened in wv.... my brother shot a 9 pointer and i shot an 8 point......cold wet weather but its all good today.....have to work tues and weds but then its back to the woods for a week !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

On the last weekend of Deer I was finally able to load one up on my Hawkeye.

 

Went deer hunting in Mark Twain Forest in Missouri and got "visited" by Official who inspected our ATV's and told us where we could and couldn't, mostly couldn't, ride, where we could camp and for how long. Been hunting that area for over forty years now you can't do jack without some sort of a permit and sometimes not even then. No wonder the number of hunters is on the decline.

 

So far here in Arizona as long as it is a road your fine, and then if you need to retirve you game you can ride where-ever.
I hope it satys that way for a while.
Phil

 

Its like that everwhere.Our state adv. for out of state hunters...guess what? They went up to 275.00 for license! Regs,and cost of hunting is surely starting to take its toll...and the new ad. will put more tariffs on guns etc. so save your money...get ready for the new world order...

 

I am disabled and can't walk in the woods even with my cane, so I am pretty well out of luck if I can't take my ATV off the roads. With age, more and more hunters are in this situation and will have to give up the sport. Even an able bodied person will have difficulty getting to remote areas so much goes unhunted and MDC wants the deer herd thinned. I sure didn't contribute to that this year.

 

I saw an ATV that a guy mounted a bar across above the handlebars as a shooting rest. If you're disabled you can hunt from a vehicle in most states. You may have to stay on trails except to retrieve game but you can still hunt.

 

I have a MDC permit which allows me to hunt from a stationary vehicle, but they tell me it is no good in Mark Twain. I am trying to get clarification on it now. I just like to be out in the woods and hate to be restricted to the roads and marked trails.

I own several hundred acres on which my wife and I live with a good deer herd, but our family has been going to Mark Twain to camp for over forty years where we also have friends, so it is about much more than the hunt. If I just wanted to kill a deer I could do it about any day on my own land, but since I live here and know where they will be at just about any time, that is really not hunting to me.

My sons do bow hunt on our land, but that is a little more sporting.

 

The national forests have their own laws that are different from each state's laws but don't know the details. I guess you need to talk to the feds. http://www.fs.fed.us/

 

I went back "home" to NW Mn for deer season. We hunted only private land - mine and two of my uncles. 12 hunters and we got 15 deer; a 15 pointer, two 10 pointers, a 9, two 8 pointers, a 7, 6, 5, a button buck and six does. My cousin who shot the 15 pointer also got one of the 10 pointers. I got the 5 pointer and the biggest doe.