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KocKingnam county tallied the biggest harvest in western Virginia with 2,024 deer killed, compared to 1,941 last season. Other counties in which more than 1,000 deer were taken were Bath with 1,956; Shenandoah with 1,727; Grayson with 1,482; Augusta with 1,358; Botetourt with 1,362; Highland with 1,231; Frederick with 1,156 and Craig with 1,140.
Western Virginia's doe kill was about 30 per cent of the total harvest in counties that permit shooting deer without antlers. According to biologists, the deer population tends to decrease any time the doe kill goes over 30 per cent of the total. In Rappahannock, Bankston noted that approximately 150 does were taken out of a total harvest of 775, amounting to slightly less than 20 per cent of the kill.
Last year, only 56 does were killed. Bankston attributed Rappahannock's increase to liberalized bag limits in effect this year that allow two deer of either sex to be taken on the last three days of hunting season. Previously, hunters were limited to one doe.
Bankston noted that efforts to control hunting violations, particularly roadside hunting on posted property, became "frantic" during the last of the season. He reported that he passed 10 to 15 vehicles daily creeping along at five or six miles per hour on the county's back roads. Bankston said he’d written approximately 50 citations —14 in a single day —primarily for trespassing. >
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