fallow and red rut

[bowhunting4eva]

well this years fallow and red season is over. how did everyone go.

also what are your plans for next years march/april rut. i am planning to have a week hunting the local deer.

1 more question- why do fallow and reds have a season from march to october. they have thier kids during the off season and the bucks are growing there antlers for next year but why can we not hunt them. rusa does not have a season, why not. there has to be deer that are not having kids during the off season and buck with or without antlers is still a buck to me.

[jindydiver]

When the Game and Feral Animal Act was being put together there was a necessity to make concessions with the greens in order for it to pass in Parliament. One concession was that, owing to the habit of red and fallow deer of hiding their young in the first few weeks of life, no red or fallow deer would be hunted during the calving season so that no young would be left to starve if their moms were killed. It is bull **** that it lasts to March (fawns are only hidden for 3 weeks after birth, and are fully functioning ruminants after 6 weeks) and it is bull **** that it is a blanket closure and hunters can't take male deer, but it is the system we work with now and we have to make the best of it.

FWIW there were over 100 amendments made to the act during it's passage through Parliament. It is a wonder we are able to shoot in the forests at all.

[HOOD]

No hunting seasons here in SA on deer at all.:D

[hawkeye]

or WA Hood - but is that a good thing??

no management means they can be blown to bits all year round - a breathing space would at least help some pockets get properly established before they get eliminated.

[Evil Taco]

does anybody know the go with victoria (rules), at my hunting spot ive got a small fallow doe thats beginning to look pretty tastey but not sure on the rules with that... i need to talk to a deer farmer a few k's from the hunting spot because i think this deer might be an escapee....? if not would there be many more fallow out there, its just out of town and i wouldnt think fallow would live out there?

[jindydiver]

You are not allowed to shoot fallow deer in Vic SF's, it makes no difference if someone claims it is theirs or not. If it is on private property it is up to you and the farmer who owns the land as to what you want to do about it.
AFAIK there is no legislation listing deer as livestock in Vic and so a deer farmer who loses stock is just plain out of luck if someone wants to shoot them (in NSW it is very different).

[macka]

I wish deer were classified as game here in SA instead of vermin. Then we might not get the chopper flying over and shooting the **** out of everything once or twice a year. Hard enough to hunt deer as it is and man are they flghty after a choppers been chasing them around. Bit of a bummer for you blokes over there if you want a bit of venison this time of year though.

Macka

[Evil Taco]

thanks for that jindy...a little confused tho what does SF and AFAIK stand for..?

[Dale Furze]

FWICG AFAIK would stand for 'As far as I know'. SF - State Forest.

Arn't you whipper snappers up with the sms lingo!:confused:

Dale.;)

[jindydiver]

FWICG AFAIK would stand for 'As far as I know'. SF - State Forest.

Arn't you whipper snappers up with the sms lingo!:confused:

Dale.;)

:D:D

[clint]

Macka being listed game doesn't change a thing the national parks still cull big time. The parks ,they also ask permission to cull on neighbouring propertys. At night under red light

[Evil Taco]

thanks dale, i spend too much time out hunting and not enough on the computer...lol i wish