In MS the season is quite long and the limits are quite liberal. The first season starts the first week in October every year and lasts until the weekend before Thanksgiving. It's an either sex season, with everything except spotted fawns and bucks with less than 4 points being legal. Then the first of a series of gun seasons start and last until the 2nd week in January. Most of the gun seasons have the same restrictions as the bow season, depending on your specific county, with a 4pt or better and no fawns. The season ends with another 2 week bow season that lasts until the last day of January and is buck, 4pt or better, only. And I believe they added the use of primitive weapons (muzzleloaders) into this last season last year. The yearly limits are 5 bucks and 4 does per hunter. I think the non-residents have stricter limits but I don't recall what they are. Except on state controlled lands and some clubs, tags and permits aren't used. So it is quiet easy to overkill your limit if you wanted to. And I suspect alot of hunters do just that. I have never found a need for that much venison so I might take 2 deer a year, but usually just one. The reason they restrictions are so loose is because the population is so high in much of MS and the Game Wardens end up thinning the herd just about every year even after these liberal limits.
What gets me is that we also have thousands of acres upon acres of fresh water lakes, rivers, streams, and reservoirs with a very healthy fish population. But it is illegal to spearfish in these waters for any species, including non-gamefish such as catfish and carp.
