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Seriously? I bet 75% of people on this website would label Barack Obama a socialist and a communist for saying something that runs along those lines. This idea that it's "not fair" because someone has more money and can afford to pay more is rediculous. It's called supply and demand. Land is...

What resource isn't being protected? if you don't sell the tags, the does arent going to get shot. It is an "us" versus "them" issue, as it always is in Iowa. It's the hostility towards non-residents perpetuated by sticks in the mud. I especially don't understand it towards non-resident...

I would seriously pay money to see #2. 50+ guys driving deer, chasing them in trucks, shooting off the road? Where do you hunt? That's absolutely absurd to even make a statement like that; if that does happen, it could only be once or twice, you make it seem like its commonplace! Easily the most...

that's a hugely flawed argument in the money sense. If it was all about money, wouldn't the Iowa DNR just increase the NR quota, or just abolish it all together? they'd make a lot more money doing that than selling doe tags. Once again, arguments like this degenerate into misguided anti-Non...

The only thing more outrageous than paying $563 for a non-resident deer tag is paying out of state tuition at the University of Wisconsin. Yeah, Wisconsin is in the top 5 B&C, but why limit myself to one state? I should limit myself to one state because it's good enough? I have the feeling...

probably the same elk then. Would be in the same area, roughly, this picture is maybe 3/4 mile from the Yellow River itself

I can't get the image to attach, I'll try and do it later when I'm done glassing fields

Last year a few elk supposedly escaped from a game farm in northeast Iowa. I saw them a few times on our farm but was told the DNR shot them. This year, I saw two cows and a calf and a bull had been spotted in the area also. I've been dying to get them on trail cam, and lo and behold, along with...

Non-residents in Wisconsin aren't a problem. It's not like there's droves of Non-residents coming in WI and ruining any hunting. It's OTC tags and WI still ranks among the top 5 B&C producing states in the country year after year after year. Convincing non-resident landowners to sell their land...

I would ask anyone crying about non-residents, do you own land in Iowa? If so, what's the problem? If not, I can state the obvious: Buy land. Oh no? Then don't use that argument, you're refuting your own point. Boom roasted.

Apologies for not answering the question. We have ground in both states, that's a non-issue.

Correct, the deer "belong" to the people of the state of Iowa. Why are the people of the state of Iowa so neglecting to manage their herd then? Knee-jerk answer is to say all the non-residents are buying up all the good hunting ground and squeezing out residents but you and I both know that's...

Agreed. There's no incentive, especially on big farms, to shoot does if the tags are $200 a pop. On bigger farms, you might need to shoot 20+ does just to keep the population stable. $4k+ just to manage your herd is asinine. Whatever state it is, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, doe tags should only...

I was over there again last night when I was stopped on the same road by a landowner who lived a half mile away! he already had one truck stopped interrogating the man when I rolled up. After about the 5th question, he figured out who owned the entire valley behind him and was apologetic. But...

So last night I'm out making my usual glassing rounds on some fields that border our farm because I didn't feel like dropping down into the valley to check ours. There's 5 minutes of light left, and I'm watching roughly 40 deer feed in an alfalfa field with a couple bucks that are at or pushing...

whats the big deal about outfitting? because they're operating a legitimate business and serve clients, just as a fast food restaurant, law firm, or car dealer would? more ignorance..

some would say the same about the IBA. If what I have been hearing is true, FOI is tooling up big to finally get NR landowners some rights. Just a though I've had the last couple weeks: NR's aren't driving up land prices at all. It's yourselves. You don't think the farmers paying $3-5k/acre...

protecting iowan's resources? Sure, the deer herd itself is Iowa's resource, but the land is the landowner's resource. Who are you to want to manipulate the system to keep landowners from leasing their land out? If that's the way he or she best feels their property is served, so be it. Those who...

most definitely. I think the IDNR has already set a dangerous precedent, by raising it from 300 and change to 400+ and now to well over 500. I mean, on one hand, it's smart business on their part, they have both a scarce and desirable resources. The sky is seemingly the limit on the revenue...

I come to hunt my own farm that we manage pretty tightly, I know when I last had a bow tag 3 years ago I let bucks that were 3 1/2 and right at 140ish walk because it was October firstly and secondly they weren't quite where we would want them to be yet. I can definitely see not being a...