King for a day - YOUR NJ, Wildlife Management plan

[Lunatic]

6 minutes ago, Greybeard said:

Anything would be better than what it is now.

Just turn back time to the 70's.  Only way to bring deer(buck and doe) back is to stop the doe slaughter. To get bigger bucks there needs to be bigger restrictions put on and sacrifices from us.

Any legal firearm, 7days(1st sat to sat in Dec), change it to any 1 buck.   1 doe or 1 buck with 4 to one side or better following Wednesday for all firearms, and last week in January for Muzzleloader only. 

Archery- 1 buck 1 doe.  Traditional archery- last 2 weeks in Sept, any buck.  Trad & compound- 1st 2 weeks in Oct, 4 pts to one side or better.   All archery- last 2 weeks in Oct, 4 pts to one side or better, and any buck 1st 3 weeks in January.  

Nov for small game only

$50 licence to hunt covers everything/$50 to fish

There would be way too many deer in areas I hunt.

[Greybeard]

1 minute ago, Lunatic said:

There would be way too many deer in areas I hunt.

I fixed it at the end

[3Blade]

11 minutes ago, Greybeard said:

Nov for small game only

Are you nuts? 

[Lunatic]

2 minutes ago, Greybeard said:

I fixed it at the end

Zones, not properties.
Anyway it needs to be managed per zones, not state wide. Some of the ideas presented here are great for the zone the idea was created for and not so good in other zones.

[Lunatic]

2 minutes ago, 3Blade said:

Are you nuts? 

You will be hunting ruting squirrels

[not on the rug]

Good ideas from everyone. 

I'd eliminate out of state hunting licenses for Deer and/or ban anyone from doing deer drives on any public land. 

After a few years of watching everyone and their mother roll in from Pensyltucky with their rusty pickup brigade and beat the shit out of every WMA in the area by 9am opening day, I gave up on 6-day entirely.  

[3Blade]

I would restrict bag limits on deer for non residents and charge them more for their licenses if they aren't already

[nickmarch]

Is this some sort of fantasy hunting league Thread?  

Dreaming?

Wishful thinking?

This is NJ!  Management is really $$$. Not only from licenses, permits stamps, ect but also from sales tax.  

Don't give the FW Council any ideas because they will only see ideas that dig deeper into our pockets.  

[Gobblengrunt]

I would like to see only (4) changes:

1) separate public regulations from private land.  Severely cut deer bag limits on public land including state parks, forests, WMA, municipal, and county land

2) button buck (or antlers less than 3”) kills should utilize a buck tag NOT antlerless tag

3) allow a lesser weapon in each season.  Example: permit shotgun should allow muzzy and bow also

4) game violations should have severe consequences.  Particularly revolving around trespassing and poaching.  Trespassing is basically legal for first time offenders, what a joke!

[nickmarch]

2 hours ago, Bucksnbows said:

They will NOT go for an overall license increase because that is a “tax” that must be approved by state legislature and not by Fish & Game Council

Actually the State Statutes are a base fee.  The FW Council can adjust the fees annually without the approval of the legislature.

[Buckeyes11]

16 minutes ago, 3Blade said:

I would restrict bag limits on deer for non residents and charge them more for their licenses if they aren't already

No way non residents should pay the same for the deer  turkey and bear permits. We pay in every state. So should they in ours

[Coyoteslayer]

17 minutes ago, nickmarch said:

Is this some sort of fantasy hunting league Thread?  

Dreaming?

Wishful thinking?

This is NJ!  Management is really $$$. Not only from licenses, permits stamps, ect but also from sales tax.  

Don't give the FW Council any ideas because they will only see ideas that dig deeper into our pockets.  

Talking ill of the king like that will get u locked in the tower sir.

[Gobblengrunt]

Oh yeh, extend the coyote seasons.  Coyote should be open year round

[Greybeard]

52 minutes ago, nickmarch said:

Is this some sort of fantasy hunting league Thread?  

Dreaming?

Wishful thinking?

This is NJ!  Management is really $$$. Not only from licenses, permits stamps, ect but also from sales tax.  

Don't give the FW Council any ideas because they will only see ideas that dig deeper into our pockets.  

They don't need ideas from us to find ways to increase their revenue.  They've been doing it.  Yes it is fantasy.  We can dream of having good hunting in NJ, can't we?  It's all we really have left after politics took control.

[Greybeard]

34 minutes ago, Gobblengrunt said:

Oh yeh, extend the coyote seasons.  Coyote should be open year round

And with bounties.  What ever happened to bounties? DFW wants the deer down to nothing for when dems stop all hunting.  Coyotes killing fawns is one of their ways to keep the numbers down.