TPWD ADDS ‘DOE DAYS’ IN SEVERAL AREA COUNTIES
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has announced the opportunity for hunters, next season, to harvest some doe without a permit in several Brazos Valley counties.
TPWD added four “doe days” in Burleson and Milam counties, allowing hunters to take doe and antlerless deer without a permit during a certain time period, usually around Thanksgiving weekend.
The harvest of antlerless deer in these counties was previously only permitted by a special permit or during archery-only or muzzleloader-only seasons.
TPWD increased doe days from four to 16 in Brazos, Grimes, Leon, Madison and Robertson counties.
A muzzleloader-only late season was also added in Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Milam and Robertson counties.
Alan Cain, whitetail deer program leader for TPWD says the doe days are meant to allow flexibility for hunters.
Cain adds that as the deer population grows and the sex ratio gets out of proportion, the department will open up doe days to help address some of those problems.
I wish we had a doe day in houston country we used to Harvest does by permit only now there’s a lot of does
I hunt on Cedar Creek near Nails Creek Park and I’ve spoken with the biologist many times requesting a better way to get the ratio more even and to get hunters meat in the freezer, all with no luck. The way everything is set up, you must own a high fenced game ranch or be a breeder to actually get help or have some control over managing the herd on your place….its pathetic
Why doesn’t Washington county have doe days? i know the buck to doe ratio on my place is skewered at about 15 to 1. and have several friends through out the county who have the same issue on their land as well.
Someone needs to count the doe population at Yequa Park just at break of dawn as I consistantly count 65 to 100 most mornings. Thgis in appoximately 10-15 acre area and many more scattered. Of 10 15 bucks none has more than a 10″ spread and rarely a 13″er.