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I have seen several opinions posted about not allowing crossbows for general deer hunting in the archery season. However other than one person who said they didn't require movement to draw them when a deer was in range, I have not seen ANY sound reasons for disallowing them. I could maybe agree...

Funny how things go sometimes. Right now I have a crossbow permit filled out and signed by my doctor. I have done a lot of research about this and just feel it is time for me to move on with this issue. My shoulders just aren't very comfortable shooting even my old recurve of 42 pounds any more...

I just checked the DNR reporting site and the total harvest showed only 115273 for the entire year from Sept 15th to Jan 20. I can't check the trends page for this season yet, but I am guessing that is out of around 350,000 licenses sold. In 2005 that number was an estimate of 211,000 total...

If your bow will draw 29" and you think that his draw will be a little shorter then why not just have him draw a full length arrow to anchor and just mark and measure the arrow? The shops all used to use a simple draw arrow and might still, but i haven't been in one for many many years. Once...

I believe that this season need to end, but not because of the issue with shed bucks. Currently there have been only 650 shed bucks reported. That means the next year herd will be lower by those 650 deer as well as the 10,600 button bucks. Then if you look at the number of does already...

You can use a BOW to fill a ML tag but not a ML to fill a bow tag. They will allow a late ML tag to be filled using a bow or a ML or a legal handgun. The only weapon legal to fill the bow tags is a bow!

Does anyone else find some of this discussion ironic? Here we have people talking about the lack of deer movement and the NR land that acts like a refuge and no one is pushing the deer out of it. Then we have so many people on here who think that deer drives and party hunting are the work of...

This was another not so good year for me. I had a LO anterless tag and a regular 2nd season state wide tag. I hunted Saturday evening and Sunday morning and evening of the 1st season and saw 2 very young small does together on Saturday evening, and that was all. Then my son and I hunted the...

Just to add another point of view. If I have a good standing shot at a calm deer and have a nice solid rest and the shot is 75 yards or less and it is not a "trophy" then I almost always shoot for the neck area. A good shot centered in the neck will drop the deer instantly with no worries about...

Safety and climbing harness aren't required but still ain't a bad idea when a person is 25 feet up in a tree. Maybe some one could design a hunter orange one that could serve both purposes of maybe keeping a hunter a little safer and visible at the same time? Who knew?

Just to be curious why would any of you be opposed to wearing orange of some kind while bow hunting? I have had deer walk to with in a few feet of me while wearing orange and it has been "proven" several different time that deer can't detect the color, so why not wear it if there are other...

I agree with Shovelbuck. I never even saw a deer until I was 12 or 13 , or about 1961 or 62. It was standing on the edge of a field that I was disking, and it just stood and watched me. It even took me a little bit to figure out what it was. I started actually hunting them around 1971 and shot...

Down here around Fairfield and Ottumwa almost all of the corn is picked and probably over half of the beans are out. Many are already spreading lime and chisel plowing already.

I always understood that a locker could not accept a non-tagged deer or one without the reporting number written on the tag. I just can't understand why some one would shoot a deer and then tag it and then run the risk of not reporting it. What is the issue of reporting the deer, it takes less...

Unfortunately in a case like this if it is during any season not allowing party hunting it would be illegal for hunter #2 to allow Hunter #1 to tag the deer, no matter how any one feels about it. During bow season, early ML season, and late ML season you MUST shoot and tag your own deer. I am...

First of all if your wife really does hunt why would you want to fill her tag? Why not allow her to fill her own tag, after all don't you hunt to fill your tag. Also you do understand that you can't hunt on her tag whether you have a doe tag or not, you can only party hunt during the same...

The DNR has changed that for this year. Unused youth tag can only be used for early or late ML or only one of the shotgun seasons. Youth hunters with an Any-deer license who do not take a deer during the youth deer hunting season may use the Any-deer license and unused tag during the early...

Signed up also. I asked if the producers of the show were stranded on a mountain in Alaska who would they rather have with them Ms Bachman or the self proclaimed conservationist? No question for me even if she is a Trophy hunter.

Youth season starts in just 12 days. That would make it bait at that time, I think, whether any one is hunting it or not. I don't know if it has crossed your mind but you might think about a well concealed trail cam that would show the stand and any one in it as well as the pile of corn. With...

You should call Matt Rush and get his opinion and also make him aware of the pile of corn. I am sure he would be interested in looking at it. I would say that you are out of luck for that stand site because there is nothing in the regulations about property lines. If deer movements are...