Why is Hunting Season in the Fall?
- Thread starter MiG25
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Young animals are still very dependent on their parent(s) in July would be my guess. I also avoid harvesting does with yearlings in the early fall as well.
Personally, I love hunting big game in November, its cold, snow, less people and deer are rutting. If hunting commenced in July, there would be a greater chance of meat spoiling, to hot to hunt, people go on summer vacations with their children, plus some wanker meat hunters will be shooting fawns/calves with their 3 month spots.
Bucks/bulls don't have dependent young. BC at least has a habit of ending deer/sheep/caribou hunts before the peak of the rut. In areas with hard winters it is better to take bucks/bulls before the rut and does/cows after as it reduces competition during the rut and increases winter survival of older and presumably smarter bucks/bulls; it's easier on a buck/bull to breed 50 times than to fight.
the hunting seasons in this country are around the rut seasons
it encourages the trophy hunters
in the uk and eire the deer seasons are much longer by months, not weeks here.also we dont
have bag/tag limits either.shoot as many as you can
it encourages the trophy hunters
in the uk and eire the deer seasons are much longer by months, not weeks here.also we dont
have bag/tag limits either.shoot as many as you can
And most of them harvest in the fall and winter.
Fall hunting allows game born in the spring to have matured to or nearly to full grown size and does not remove any animal about to produce young, because that's all done. Fall hunting also culls any surplus game populations and helps the remaining ones to survive the winter. And has been stated the cold weather is helpful to big game hunters here in Canada.
so you asked a question while you knew the answer lol ...
Not when most hunters primary reason for hunting is for meat and not a head on their wall.
So again the hunting seasons are based around trophy hunting not about herd management
