lol well you have now and no we are not hunting for meat besides a few does for some deer sticks and summer sausage. We could kill 50 does off each farm every year and you would never know you shot any the next year.
I’m going to say worse! Our areas keep going downhill every year because of the “highly managed neighborhoods” where most of the neighbors are out of state owners chasing one big bucks a year and the doe population is out of control.
I was just making a point that most of our neighbors are already NR. We are good in the owning our ground dept lol . We would possibly buy ground in states out west if we could get Immediately get resident privileges for tags and not live there but you can’t in most states out there either...
I heard multiple times from different people that the Iowa dnr stopped going after them because they lost a couple cases in court and couldn’t afford to fight every rich non residents attorneys. Anyone else hear anything similar.? Because the amount of them claiming residency is ridiculous these...
I have neighbors who spent 1 million + to hunt their farm every 5 years with a bow so yes there will be a huge rush and 4-5k an acre is gone overnight.
Limiting NR is a mute point since I’d say 70% of them are “residents” and get tags every year. They aren’t spending millions to come hunt every 4-5 years.
Start looking for another lease depending on how good it is during bow season.
We sold our Bussey and Marysville farms in Marion because of the locals. Would never buy anything near that area again. I can’t shoot dogs because of the owners so nothing much to do. COs can never stop it.
We have a cabin but besides the rut which usually sucks anyway most of our sits are afternoon into evening anyway. During the rut you can head down a little later hit the stand around 10 take a break and then go back out for the evening.
We partnered up buying a large piece and hunt it and manage it together but we parceled it off so they own half and we own half if there’s ever any problem.
He is right they are out there. I just closed on a nice little 63 acre chunk in wapello county yesterday. Good area that will produce but not a managed area.
You obviously live by Pella. My parents farm is just across the dirt road from the 40 . And I’m pretty sure it was 9k an acre, they offered it to us for 10k an acre before it hit the market.
I have never heard more deer sneeze in my life as I did the first couple weeks of season. But I don’t think it killed any at least I haven’t found any.
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