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If you were a deer, what is the LAST state you would want to live in

MattMan81 said:
Doesn't matter, as long as I am in a national park with no hunting. Or other protected area. Few deer live a long time on public or high hunted areas. But I would be a deer and wouldn't know the difference. So California I guess. They have laws to save everyone from everything. Might go thirsty. But won't be shot. Except by possibly stray bullets from gang violence.
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Plus, the wildfires, mudslides, earthquakes....then again, the wineries...
 
BackSpasm said:
I’ll go first:

There is no chance on earth you would find me living in Alabama. There are too many hungry Nutters and others (you know who you are) down there who would want to eat me, the season is so dang long basically until turkey season, and you can shoot like 1 million bucks a year.....
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Pretty much true. Guilty as charged.
 
Westdesign03 said:
Michigan because everything with 4 legs and hooves doesn’t make it more than a year or two. Next would be Iowa because people vacation there for the sole purpose of killing you.

Where I would most want to live might be Hawaii. Don’t hear of many people deer hunting there. Hah. Although volcanos and tsunamis might be a problem.


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Come! I’ll hunt you!
 
Not choosey about where I would live but know where I wouldn't. South Carolina. The does are so ugly down there.
 
Ohio to many hunters, and a lot of road poachers especially in south and southeaster Ohio
 
I was going to second California as a state I would not want to live in, instead of getting shot and hopefully dying quick, I would probably get tagged by a car and die slow of a broken pelvis, or eaten alive by a cougar, or slowly torn apart by a damn black bear since they are talking about ending the hunting season for them as well. Make no mistake, a bullet or well placed arrow is about as humane a death as a deer can expect.

An arrow from that guy in the video being the exception.
 
Redoak47* said:
Ohio to many hunters, and a lot of road poachers especially in south and southeaster Ohio
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Same with NW Ohio. Especially with the road poaching. It’s effing ridiculous up here. Doesn’t help when the local game warden is also in on the game either. Where do you go when “the law” is also breaking the law???


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North Carolina. Lots of hunters, terrible terrain, nothing to eat, very hot summers, bears, and gators
 
BackSpasm said:
Ok fellas I did a little poking around and found these harvest stats for 2017

www.archerytrade.org

State-by-State Hunting Data - ATA

www.archerytrade.org www.archerytrade.org


According to this if you look at number of deer killed/ number of licenses sold here is how we stack up for that year:

Michigan: 0.65 deer killed per hunter (DKPH)
574,000 hunters
96,716 mi squared
6 hunters per square mile

Mississippi: 0.65 DKPH
300,000 hunters
48,430 mi squared
6 hunters per square mile

Pennsylvania: 0.38 DKPH
976,000 hunters
46,055 mi squared
21 hunters per square mile

Alabama: 0.15 DKPH
548,000 hunters
52,419 mi squared
10 hunters per square mile


I didn't see South Carolina total license sales, but they report a 69%-70% success rate per license holder.

I am sure there is more and better data available like that found in the annual QDMA report or on each states websites, but this was a quick and dirty look at pressure. The big factor we are missing here is deer density and deer herd size.
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In Mississippi it’s a honor system on turning in deer. And private lands they don’t have to a way to tag deer. So imo Mississippi data is way off of actual numbers of deer killed. It’s just a really big estimate.
 
barlow96 said:
In Mississippi it’s a honor system on turning in deer. And private lands they don’t have to a way to tag deer. So imo Mississippi data is way off of actual numbers of deer killed. It’s just a really big estimate.
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agree. by what i witnessed this weekend, MS is the last state i'd want to live as a deer.
 
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