What would be your pick for the best state to try for an early season velvet hunt on public land in the southeastern US?
Game and Fish is looking at it for here. It was one of the questions on the post season survey. I voted against the idea. I am not in favor of an early September hunt that the sole purpose is to kill a buck with fuzzy antlers. It's the very definition of trophy hunting, killing a buck for it's head. When hunting is under steadily increasing attacks around the country, a season like that is just not a good look imo. Especially considering the length of our seasons and total bag limit.
Oh it definitely sounds fun and it would be cool to kill a nice velvet buck, just not sure the juice is worth the squeeze from an optics standpoint.Do you just think it sounds too fun and different you ole codger? Those late summer bucks are fat and taste good I’ll tell you that
I killed a velvet buck in AR years ago so I already have that box checked anyway. It was a whopper spike on October 1st. It had balls though so it countsYeah, we got a 2 day velvet hunt early the last couple of years but you have to be on private so the optics on that are not great either (only the landed gentry may partake, no peasants please.) ...I bet some doctors got together and pushed that through, lol. All joking aside, and I do own land, but I have no interest. It would be cool to kill a velvet but I'm not specifically going after one. The mosquitos, ticks and redbugs will have their feast of me soon enough.