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I mentioned this on another post under this thread but I may have missed the schedule F requirement for a LOT. I file a schedule F but I thought the reg book just implies “farm income” off the tract. Maybe another way to get a handle on the abuse is to require a schedule F to be eligible. I...

Not being combative here but all I see in majority of the other deer hunting bills at the legislature right now is pro NR. So hard for me to feel sorry for the NR especially when the bill being discussed here is also negative for residents. I am all for increasing the acreage requirement to...

Yes, two bucks max for everyone plus the urban tags. Floating LOT tag as a bone to RLO but if you fill two statewide tags with antlered deer then you are done and the floating LOT gets thrown in trash or used on antlerless deer on your farm unit (s).

Yeah I’m not for a floating tag. I do like the floating tag for the LOT as they are only hunting their own ground. 2 buck max, floating LOT and fix the antlerless permits and shed buck season. Should make good improvements.

GREAT post. 100% agree that there is fraud with the LOT tags. Getting rid of LOT completely is not going to get supported and is going to waste time and money. Going to two buck state will take away the incentive for those lying and will fix a lot of the issue. Tracking LOT eligibility is...

You are correct.

Just gonna throw this out as I think only the cull buck has been made against it but who reading this is against two bucks statewide other than urban? Still allow floating LOT and two statewide any sex but however you do it only 2 bucks statewide not counting urban????

I did a search of a couple others that have YouTube channels that referenced Iowa Residents this year. Did a Google search and found it odd that other YouTube hunters had also lived at the same address…

I’m just giving an option to not have to keep fighting these same type of proposed bills to improve NR opportunity every year. Then that would allow more time and capital to be spent toward “the offensive”. I’m also saying if bills are being proposed to help the resource which would impact...

SF 179 to start Would you be interested in supporting increasing NR tags when the majority of the hunting population and data says the resource is trending downward? How could we make an argument that certain landowners shouldn’t harvest 3 bucks (I never have) to make a baby step to help the...

CORRECTION MADE:As a RLO I can purchase two statewide turkey licenses or one can be a LOT license. I can only harvest two birds legally. Plain and simple how it should be for deer.

I am saying if we are referring to helping the resource which some of these bills are hiding behind, why would we as residents support reducing resident harvest to help the resource and then lose ground on the resource help by allowing more NR harvest??

Follow-up to my post above. We continue to hear how many fewer deer habitat acres Iowa has than the surrounding “POORLY” managed Midwest states and we morally think it makes sense to allow three bucks to be harvested by RLO yet NO OTHER “POORLY” managed state around us allows for three bucks to...

Skip, I’ve saw you mention this a few places now about the legislators firing back about allowing 3 bucks to be harvested. One, can we get the data on the number of hunters that actually harvest three bucks in one year? Second, why not go to two buck harvest and take that argument away from the...

Different discussion in my opinion. Party hunting and two buck limits are not related because even if we go to two buck limits the party hunting still allows a buck to be harvested for every any sex tag in the group. Completely legal right now to shoot above 3 bucks in the gun seasons as a...

Good information and thanks for the insight. I do like the answer tho because it is similar to my argument on the 2-5 acres going to 40 acres. Is that argument worth the political capital and to tick off some residents to save an approximately 1200 bucks at most and for a moral victory. To me...

I may have misread a post under the legislation discussions but NR still get an antlerless permit when they draw a statewide tag in any season correct? Why don’t we push to eliminate the automatic antlerless tag given the current herd/population issue? I don’t have the numbers of NR antlerless...

Oh good, so that means you the others you mentioned along with IW, IBA and ISC are strongly opposed to HF 179? I must have misread a couple posts supporting NRLO tags as that would not align with the last box under critical state issues. I support what was posted above from ISC!

This bill sure has an open door feel to it. I ASSUME since it infers party hunting this is for gun 1&2? What would keep it from being bow tags next year. Most gun 1&2 tags can be drawn in around 2 years I think? What will keep them from asking for bow tags next for the NRLO family members...

So we are incentivizing NR landownership and giving them an easier route to a tag!?!? How many more NR will buy small tracts or even large tracts knowing they will have an easier chance than 1 in 6 years to get a bow license. Buy in another state if you want to hunt every year. Or become a...