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I keep seeing two things, both here and on social media: -"we need to move a one buck state" Ok great, but Iowa historically has not been that. Party hunting during gun season has been an accepted practice since before most people on this forum have been alive. Do you think the majority of...

That's the best part about party hunting- everyone jumping for joy that the 200 non-residents were stopped from killing a buck on a doe tag every year don't realize the number of residents that are tagging bucks on their wives' tags grossly outnumbers that. I'm sorry, but the stories of...

Honestly, what an embarrassing shit show for the commission. Between this and the party hunting "simplification", it seems like everyone involved would have been better served with these issues out in the open, announced well in advance for public comment. Instead between here and a couple...

You know there were zero random bighorn tags in Wyoming this year, and only one random moose tag, right? You've probably got over a grand in donating money for stuff that not only you won't statistically draw, but actually cannot draw by state statute.

I don't really have an opinion on this either way, although I generally think that some of this technology use needs to be debated and hashed out, as some of it probably goes too far. I don't personally use cell cams, but I do know of a handful of bucks that would have never gotten hunted or...

It's obviously impossible to know the numbers, but I hunt in the eastern part of the state. I'm sure it happens from time to time, but every single non-resident I know that bought an antlerless tag for Gun 1 or 2 was friends or family coming over the river or home to deer hunt. I saw memes...

A non-scientific poll of mostly trophy hunters and Facebook comments from guys that want to police what bucks people kill (God forbid, somebody is happy with a 3 year old buck) is not super indicative of support. The same people comment "we need to ban deer drives next" because they can't stand...

That was apparently in the rule change process and made me chuckle: "This rulemaking has no fiscal impact to the state of Iowa." We'll see how the math shakes out, but a potential $500k-$1M hit to the DNR budget does not feel like "no fiscal impact to the state of Iowa." It does feel very odd...

Is there data that shows there's a statistically significant amount of hunters shooting 2+ bucks per year? I ask because some of the regulatory changes purposed here would most likely be unpopular with large segments of hunters in Iowa. I think sometimes we forget that the vast majority of deer...

Josh Bowmar compared violating the Lacey Act to a speeding ticket, nobody should be looking to him for advice on anything. In fact, I'd argue social media notoriety/killing for content is another piece of this puzzle. There's a non-zero % of hunters that have to kill 1-2 bucks every year to be...

eh I can think of a half dozen farms roughly that size that have sold off market within 20 miles of his new place in the last 3 or 4 years. I am surprised he hasn't been able to turn up much in that neighborhood though. There was an absolute bomber of a typical shot just down the river last fall.

Bingo. There's an awful lot of moral policing on what other people shoot that's totally in line with regulations that have been in place for decades. It will never get old seeing guys that are politically "we need to get the government out of our life" go full throated "we need the government...

That antler color/configuration is a dead giveaway for a pen buck.

One thing I never see mentioned is the "youth season", which has basically turned into dads channeling the energy from coaching T-ball into making sure their 5 year old kid blasts a a 3 year old 150" deer off a tripod so they can have it on instagram. Or early muzzleloader season. I keep hearing...

This is really simple actually: look how much we expanded the money supply in the last 15 years. $/Acre is fairly proportionate. Sure, there's a rise between Covid/people wanting their own slice and cheap interest rates, but it's not super complicated. Land really isn't that over valued when...

I agree completely, but that circle is eventually not going to square with the hard cap on non-resident tags. We have almost 1,000 acres in a zone that was an easy draw for a bow tag every other year, now it's a 3 year wait minimum. I don't say that to brag or throw any weight around, we just...

They don't qualify for residency, so it clearly wasn't looked into. Everyone gets so hot and bothered about any change to allowing a higher NR cap on licenses that they ignore the amount of PO Box and illegal residency status that's happening.

Iowa giving out Governor's Tags to every country music star and everyone associated with Realtree and Drury in the early 2000's to promote deer hunting in Iowa will probably be cited on this forum as the beginning of the end of "easy access to big bucks" on this forum 10 years from now. Correct...

Walnut still holding strong, even #1/2 common saw logs. The best walnut veneer tree I've ever laid eyes on was felled recently and went for something like $17k to the veneer buyer. I didn't throw a caliper on it but at chest height I'd guess it was a 30" tree with the first knot at the end of...

Just the perspective from NE Iowa, but I'd be more inclined to support a proposal like this if places like the Yellow River SF were more actively having timber sales and getting the saw instead of letting letting prime red oak lay down 5 years after a wind storm. Or another acre getting rolled...