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Ghost

Ghost

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I was interested in how the new registration was going to affect the number of landowner tags issued this year.

In the 2004-2005 gun season there were 53,682 landowner tags issued.

As of yesterday, the IDNR reports that 39,636 landowners have registered with the new system. Interesting.....
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Is the 39K the number of registered land owners or the number of land owner tags issued so far this year? I've registered but am still trying to decide what season to get my LOT.

The 'Bonker
 
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This is neat...to me at least. I always like these trivial posts that give me at least a glimpse into what Iowa is like.
To me that seems like a high # of landowner tags.
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it likely isn't though. I did some snooping online and found that we sold 43257 tags last year total. That is Sask residents, Canadian residents and U.S residents.

I'm sure we wouldn't have near that many landowners here and few of them hunt. I snooped and saw Iowa was 50 some thousand square miles in size, Saskatchewan is over 400,000 sq miles. Where do all these "landowners" fit Kent.?
 
99% of Iowa is privately owned. Most have only a couple hundred acres on average.

Curious how much land is privately owned in Sask.??
 
I can't find an answer to your question about how much is privately owned.

I've done some staring at a highway map and this is only a guess, somewhere in that 40% range so I guess between 160 and 170 000 sqaure miles. I'm sure I'll be off either way + or - by a few 1000 sq. m but that'll be fairly close.

I guess the major diff is the size of the farms, here you're a small landownwer if you have less than a couple thousand acres.
 
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I had three of those landowner gun tags last year..... One any sex and a couple of antlerless only. How does one really interpret these numbers?
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My thoughts exactly. If you look at the number of tags sold last year against the number of registered land owners this year I figure thats 1.35 tags per land owner. I bought 2 as a landowner last year.
 
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I read your post. I wanted to be sure "registered" and "issued" were not being used by the DNR as simile.

The 'Bonker
 
I had 3 of those landowner gun tags last year too. I have 3 for this year too but not for the gun season. It would really be neat to see the apples to apples comparison. Registered vs. issued could be two very different things.
 
Hey Ghost, just wondering where you got the 53,682 LOT gun tags issued in 04-05? I know last year was 05-06, but I was told by a DNR employee (and also read somewhere on their site) the total number of LOT tags last year was around 90,000+. Supposedly that number had doubled or tripled since the ELSI system was implemented in 2000.

Granted, antlerless only tags became available around the same time, but I believe a whole lot of folks were getting undeserved LOT tags via the easy to use ELSI system. It will be very interesting to see what the end of the year numbers show.
 
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39,636 landowners X 3 tags= 118,908 tags + a late season antlerless tag = 158,544 tags!

Even if not another landowner registers...
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I know several older farmers who didn't bother registering but none had even killed a deer the past few years with the tags they had.

You can see why WJS was concerned when the legislators opted to include the extra landowner antlerless tags.

Now there is no way for the DNR to restrict them in areas where deer populations are down
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Obviously that's not a problem in most of southern Iowa. My personal feeling is that there is now more abuse from non-resident landowners claiming to be residents...then Farmer Joe's kids....
 
I must be confused or ignorant on this subject...

I thought a landowner could only get one tag per season/species. After reading some of these posts it seems like some can get multiple tags...

What's the deal?
 
Along with the 1 anysex tag, you are allowed antlerless only tags and multiple seasons (any season). I think you can get a total of 5 tags and hunt all seasons.
 
Aren't you aloud to get multiple tags if the deer are damaging crops? I know my uncles end rows just get destroyed on a couple of his farms.
 
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Aren't you aloud to get multiple tags if the deer are damaging crops?

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Yes, you have to have the DNR in to assess that you have the minimum $1,000.00 damage then you can get "applications" that you hand out to people and they send them in to buy depredation licenses. When I checked into them, you had to get blocks of ten I think, and choose a season for them. They were $12 each, so I just chose to buy antlerless tags over the counter as I needed them. There were some other restrictions that I found cumbersome as well.
 
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I thought a landowner could only get one tag per season/species. After reading some of these posts it seems like some can get multiple tags...

What's the deal?

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150 already explained but this is how the 6 tags breakdown:


One any deer, 2 antlerless for which ever season you choose and one late season antlerless + 2 antlerless (for which ever season you choose) at $12.00 each.


It allows you to not have to buy a $27.00 antlerless tag at least until you have filled all your landowner tags.

Of course you have to harvest these deer from your own land. A lot of people get in trouble every year in shotgun season because they travel to several farms and then get caught coming out with their LOT on a deer taken on someone elses place
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Well by the sounds of that I guess I paid an extra $15 for my first antlerless tag, which was taken on my farm BTW. Oh well, I'll have to pay better attention next year.
 
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Oh well, I'll have to pay better attention next year.

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If you would like to hunt yet this year, one of the nice things about landowner tags is you can walk in and buy them anytime and it does not matter what resident tags you have purchased so far!
 
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