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    Late rifle season,everybody loves it!

    I truly believe that all this fuss over the possibility of shooting a shed buck during this late season is way out of proportion. I checked the DNR site and they show a total harvest of 126,927 deer but only 1221 were shed bucks. That is less than 1 percent, even if some criminals are reporting...
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    Youth hunting ??

    Simple answer Yes.
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    Juveniles Caught Poaching Deer

    WOW!! And their suspension of hunting privileges are PENDING!! What is up with that? Will the class D felony mean that they can't own or possess firearms in the future? :thrwrck:
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    late muzzleloader?

    I could be wrong, but I don't think the part about once you fill your tag you are done is quite correct. The regulation says that you must have a valid license for the season involved, not an unfilled tag. When you bought the license it came separate from the transportation tag. I believe that...
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    So I am wondering......

    Daver, I understood your post and I didn't mean to infer that you had shot that many deer or even that your friends had done anything illegal or even terribly bad, except to have bought into the DNR mantra of kill more does. I certainly do not have the answer to your question about how many deer...
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    So I am wondering......

    "Taking the call for herd reduction quite seriously, I have friends who have shot upwards of 50 does apiece per year in the past couple of years. (Just so you know, all of these deer went to people that wanted the meat and came off of farms that the farmers wanted "every deer shot", etc. So...
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    Ccc

    Well I am glad to see the band wagon getting a little more crowded. I have been banging this drum for a few years now and the company is feeling good. I wonder who gets to set this magical CCC number and how it is arrived at? If the IDNR really wants to get back to mid 1990 type numbers, what...
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    All hunters are tools

    The only thing I would disagree with BAD is that we hunters are THE ONLY MANAGMENT TOOL for the IDNR to use. We are it with the exception of threat they made a couple of years ago about hiring sharp shooters, like some of the cities have done. I just vented in the thread on interesting trends...
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    Interesting Harvest Trend

    Well I have to agree with those who say there are fewer deer, as per usual. I just checked the up to date harvest numbers and it is pretty dismal. Total harvest so far is 113548 with 56574 actually being does. That is 50 percent of the harvest so far and the doe numbers will climb a little as...
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    Server Crash - site saved

    Holy crap Batman. I thought I had done something to be banned and was searching for an email telling me that. Now Monday will be a good day!!!;)
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    Moving shotgun earlier

    In the for what it is worth category, I just checked the report status. It shows a total reported harvest of 94,000 deer as of this morning with 45,797 being does and 241 shed bucks. Over the past 2 years the late ML and January seasons typically totaled about 20,000 deer. So if we do a little...
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    Party Hunting (land owner)

    If all you have is a land owner tag, and no regular gun tag either state wide any sex or county specific doe tag, you can only hunt your land. No you can not go to any other land and party hunt. If you also have a state wide tag or county doe tag then you can hunt on other land. Land owner...
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    Another Heater Body Suit question

    I hate to sound stupid, but do they make this in and kind of blaze orange for the gun hunters, or do you have to wear something over the suit. I read a little about these things several years ago and it sounds like it might be the ticket for the late ML or even January season. Last year I...
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    Question for the experienced.....

    Some very good advice so far. I agree with Shovel about e-bay, there are a bunch of recurve bows on there that you can get for any where from $40 to $200 that will give you a very good idea of whether you will enjoy this conversion. There seems to be a bunch of bows in the 40 or 45 pound range...
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    Harvest numbers look down

    I just don't get it. Why can't people understand or believe that record numbers of licenses and record numbers of hunters and rapidly declining harvest numbers can only mean 2 things. One is that at least 60 percent of the deer hunters have suddenly become idiots who could not find a deer on a...
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    Introducing "Iowa Whitetails Forever"

    I just registered and want to say Thank You for all the work and attention. It's funny, I just got a couple of PMs and was looking at some from you back last March about setting something like this up and asking for support. Thank you so much for not dropping the ball like so many of us do, and...
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    How many bucks are poached ...

    I sent deeraddict a PM after I finally read his message. I stand corrected and was working from what had been the opinion several years ago. I am sorry if i obviously misinformed any one here. Thanks to both of you for your time and research in clarifying this miss step on my part. :o
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    Party Hunting

    You lads need to stop stressing yourselves over this. If you just look at the numbers they are so small that it really makes no difference. For example there are only 6000 NR any sex tags issued and 35% of those are bow tags and I believe that 10% are late ML tags. That leaves only 3300 any sex...
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    Party Hunting

    Honestly, with out party hunting do you think there would be fewer bucks killed or fewer does? I will absolutely guarantee that there are far more "party hunting" tags put on does than bucks, and that with out party hunting our harvest numbers would fall much lower. How many shot gun hunters...
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