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Iowa Dave, I have no intentions of slamming you or calling you names, but perhaps I can point out a couple of faults in your logic. The vast majority of land that we are talking about is not in the NW part of Iowa, but rather in the SE or NE or just the South parts. These NR hunters aren't...

How about a little more food for thought. If the IDNR reaches their goal of 170,000 deer and our harvest drops off to 75 or 80,000 deer like in the late 1980s or early 1990s, will there be ANY NR deer licenses? I have been searching and can't come up with the year the first NR licenses were...

First that is an over simplification. These NR aren't only looking to hunt their own land. They can already hunt their own land with the anter less tags. What they want is to TROPHY HUNT their own land every fall. That hunt their own land whine gets pretty old after several years. I read at...

I have read about the same thing about corn as well. On a sole diet of corn a deer can actually starve to death because it can't digest the protein fast enough and with out other food to help the process the corn just doesn't completely digest. I believe this was in a deer and deer hunting...

Ok Blaster I believe you that there are a ton of deer on your uncle's farm. At a 200 pound average that would take 10 deer to weigh a ton so I will concede that there may well be 10 deer on the farm. If you need some help with numbers reduction you can just PM the 2 of us and maybe we can help...

Blaster, if this is the first time you have heard this, then you have never read one of my posts. I live east of Floris and can say with absolutely no uncertainty that our deer numbers are far lower than when I moved onto this farm in 1994!! Every one knows that I have been saying these kinds of...

How in the world did any one ever kill a buck in the days before trail cams? There is a lot I don't get some times but I remember a very similar discussion about spot lighting and how and why people used spotlights to survey and catalog deer in "their area". I would bet that almost all of those...

Yes definitely stay in Iowa. Generally the hunting is better, you can still fish either side if the Mississippi, and it is much easier to buy firearms in Iowa and don't have to register as in Ill. Sales tax and income tax is also less here. Only good thing is over there they do have a dove...

I am sure that there will be dissenting opinions but maybe this will help put all this in perspective a little. What if you have tickets for an Iowa State basket ball game and when you get there you find out that everyone must enter through the same door and lick a mineral block before you...

I have an old orange hat that was left over when we ran some guys off the brother-in-law's farm back in about 1984 or 5. I have worn it every gun season since. I also have a heavy chamois shirt that was my father-in-law's that I got after his death in 1994. The collar and cuffs are getting...

Where is all the usual outrage about how unsporting and unethical deer drives are? :rolleyes: The little blue face is for sarcastic in case you didn't know. That was quite a video and looked like it was a lot of fun for those guys. I hope that it helps to point out that group or drive...

It is great to see that some of these people actually can "See The Forest" and have the moral conviction to act. I wrote several letters to Out Door Life and Field and Stream a few years back about their ads for all the "male" drugs and other crap that had nothing to do with the out doors but...

I thought that I would watch this for a while, but now I have to join the few who would not shoot a cougar in Iowa, especially just because there is not a law protecting them. For those who say they would shoot because they fear for their children, or their pets, or their livestock this sounds...

If you truly talk to any deer biologist they will tell you that we are so far below carrying capacity that we could easily carry five times the number of deer we currently have. The actual carrying capacity of the land is determined by food and mineral supply and disbursement area. We have...

I fully understand the concept of economies of scale as explained to us by Ron Hanson many moons ago at Muscatine Comm College. I also understand that as farmers, or manufactures, or retail sales get bigger the profits can get bigger but the risk of failure also gets bigger. Now to me any one...

Elkhunter I agree with you. I don't mean any of my comments to be anti-DNR, and I have always tried to support them, and have several friends in their ranks. However that doesn't mean that I always agree with them and their policies. Here is the way I see it, if there are two sides chewing, I...

Bonker, this is from the site I referenced originally. This didn't put this table in the same format as on the DNR site. It can be found on the 2008 Trends in Iowa wildlife populations and Harvest. Clear down at the bottom it shows totals with the 406,169 licenses and the 344,32 hunters and...

Bonker, I will try to answer you questions as best that I see them. First according to the DNR data for 2008 there were 406,169 licenses issued, that includes landowner, NR, youth, and for all seasons and both any sex and anterless. These were issued to 344,327 hunters. That only leaves 61,842...

This is way embarrassing, but can any one tell me where to find an e-mail address for Mr. Litchfiedl or Willey Suchy. I sent this to Mr. Herring and Mr. Leopold but I have lost the other two address, so if you know please post for me and others who want to communicate with these people at the...

I know that as I have said that I harp on the numbers aspect of this issue along with what I personally observe. If you take the time to look over the IDNR http://www.iowadnr.gov/wildlife/files/files/logbook_08log.pdf I hope that you will see the same things that I do, and that is that our deer...