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This is a classic case of a little information can become a stupid thing. As I remember that situation that year, and that year only, the DNR did not allow 1st gun season license holders to hunt 2nd season. What they did do was add 3 days onto the end of the 2nd season where those 1 season...

Also illegal to shoot from the vehicle or the road way, and much of Iowa you can't shoot a single bullet or slug from the road ditch or any where from fence to fence, only shot for birds or bunnies in the ditches. You only have the "right" to retrieve game that has been shot legally and then...

You can proably get it back pretty easily. Just watch E-BAY and out bid the last bidder. Pretty sad what we have degraded into over antlers isn't it.

Sorry about your story but maybe I can help a little. If you are hunting in zone 6 there is quite a bit of public hunting ground. An area called the Eldon game area adjoins my farm and has about 2000 acres with plenty of hills and timber and places that you can walk into a mile or more from any...

This is from a post that I made in September of 2008 and based on harvest reports from 2006 and 2007. Today it still appears that we actually are our own worst enemies, and the over harvest of does still continues. As of this morning there have been 40,245 antler-less deer reported consisting of...

Can't shoot within 200 yards of buildings or livestock or feed lot. I can't picture many places or situations where a slug fired fron a ditch would not either cross the roadway or a fence in the event of a missed shot unless the road was completely straight for 2 or 300 yards. So that in...

Saturday evening, in the rain, I managed to kill a spike buck and that was the only thing I saw at all. That was my first in 3 years, for several different reasons. I only heard 2 other shots, but it was raining pretty good sometimes. I did hear quite a bit of shooting around my place and up on...

One other thing to remember is where to tag it. On an antlerless deer it must be on a leg and be unable to be removed with out damaging the tag, and on a buck it must be on an antler between points also so that it can't be removed.

I just checked and as of 8:33 this morning there have already been 28 shed bucks killed. Undoubtedly there will be more reported during the shotgun season next week end. I don't like having the January season and especially with high powered rifles, but not because of the shed buck issue, but...

Check on the IDNR site under deer information and then populations and trends for 2101. They show the deer accidents on a per million miles driven for years back as far as 1985 I think. It has definitely trended down over the last few years even though the number of cars and miles driven has...

Just suppose that you are hunting a nice creek bottom that you have gotten permission on and are seeing deer. Then after most of the leaves fall you can see another stand 150 yards away and even see a hunter in that stand occasionally. So you are upset but continue to hunt the same land...

I will add my best wishes and thanks as well. Have a great day all of you!

Certainly "hunters" have changed over the last 30 years. For the most part hunters now pertain to mostly deer hunters or water fowl hunters. Deer hunting has grown to the point of high tech equipment to give a hunter the best edge over the biggest buck in their part of the timber. If there is a...

Ok for all you trophy hunters out there here is a little more math for you. I don't mean to hijack this thread but these things go hand in hand for me. There were 6,300 deer donated to hush in 2009, because in my opinion some people were misdirected into thinking they were helping our deer herd...

Here are some real numbers from the IDNR site. 1990 Season total licenses total harvest success percentage 192,551 98,002 51% 2005 season 391,864 211,451 54% 2009 season 405,547...

Along these same lines, the number of mature harvested bucks HAS DROPPED at a higher rate than the over all harvest has dropped. It only stands to reason that if your harvest has dropped by 50 percent and the doe or button bucks harvest is now running over 60 percent of that reduced harvest then...

But just because Ledges Park has a certain amount of deer, like you say go even a couple of miles away and the population story may be drastically different. I just drove through Honey Creek State Park the other night and saw several deer in the park but none on the rest of the drive home. It...

Blake, I agree completely, especially on the issue of miss information. This is a Letter to the Editor that I sent in early 2010 regarding an article about eagles getting sick from lead poisoning from lead deer slugs and wounded and unrecovered deer. Send your piece off and be proud that you...

Hey I am glad to hear that things are looking up for you. You are not alone in this thing, I have had almost exactly the same thing happen. Starting in March of 2010 an elevated PSA test prompted a biopsy which came back ok then, but during some of the prep for that they determined that I am now...

Look at the stats, Iowa has dropped from 211,000 deer in 2005 to just 127,500 in 2010. That is a drop of 40 plus percent in 5 years which averages 8 percent per year so why would a 6 percent drop in Michagan concern us, we are already dropping much more than that and with far fewer numbers...