Not following how the age structure will be impacted, am I missing something? Before the change if a LO had a tag and it was getting towards the end of the season and they were waiting on the big boy that doesn't show, how many went ahead and filled the tag with a younger deer?
I was thinking that it’s going to be easier to kill the deer you’re after- always gonna have a valid tag? I don’t know
This makes it WAY WAY more likely to kill a deer. You go.from having to pick a season to 4 months straight. 100% will have an impact.
I agree that it increases a landowner's chances of harvesting deer on their own properties, but if their standards don't drop, then what's the negative impact? They would have harvested those deer if / when the situation presented anyway. It just increases their likelihood of the situation presenting. Once the tag is filled, it's filled. And, a majority of landowner hunters already don't allow others to hunt on their properties, so who additionally are they taking opportunities away from with this implemented floating tag change?
It is basically 4 months straight anyways. If early muzzleloader was that shit hot it would have been more sought after. The majority of bowhunters hunt the cold fronts in that week anyways and usually it is just hot. I get the range of the gun but still. Whether you burn your floater tag or you burn a paid tag, you'll still be thinking about how killing a deer early or burning a tag will affect the plans you had for the other 2 tags you can get. 100% will have an impact...a minimal impact.
It negatively impacts everyone around the area and that compounded affect of EVERYONE doing it degrades the overall hunting quality for EVERYONE.
Hey, you forgot to add compound bows to your list of weapons that made deer hunting EASIER. Seems these are always left out when talking about weapons that made deer hunting easier, wonder why?
Yes, the biggest loser in this bill is the state of Iowa (assuming I understand this bill correctly). Let's say a landowner is very picky and only has 1 or 2 bucks he is after. Now he can just buy the one cheap landowner tag and roll it all season. Lots of lost revenue will result from less shotgun and muzzleloader tags sold. Age structure will be hit from the less picky landowners who buys a landowner tag and may bow hunt a couple times. Now the shotgun season arrives, and he says hey I've still got my landowner tag to burn. I'll go shotgun hunt with my cheap landowner tag and put a buck in the freezer. Just one example. Maybe the state will raise the price of the landowner tag to account for lost revenue?
I would guess because none of us have ever had to use any other type of bow, compound is all we've ever known so we have no other baseline to measure from . But yes, obviously compound bows make bow hunting easier than traditional bows would be. That doesn't change the fact that every single change that makes hunting easier will have a negative effect on the herd size and age .
As long as we're all playing by the same rules, I don't care about what deer my neighbors harvest. Never have. Never will. Their land. Their tags. Their choices. Floating landowner tags have zero impact on this, for me anyway. I know there are several on here that make pacts with their neighbors that deer under a certain age, or specific photographed / named deer, etc. are off limits specific years, but I don't play that game. To each their own though.
Food plots?? Heated blinds...can you imagine the age structure we could all enjoy if they made it illegal to hunt bucks over corn or brassicas in heated blinds during late season?? You damn well better save your floating tag for this! Look, I'm not fond of this law either and no idea how it snuck up on us but there is no way to control your neighbor. If he decides to kill three immature bucks, he's going to do it with 2 paid tags and a floater or not. They're called bad neighborhoods.
With that philosophy we should just make grenades and bazooka legal
Introduced January 9th
Good question...... Where is Fishbonker?
I don’t think they have changed- just they now float?
What they should do- I’m general- the floating tag costs “$insert number” regular tags are normal. Idk- I think floating tag should be more money- even for a LOT