Late gun season vs Early Gun seasons +/-‘s

[JNRBRONC]

The message needs to be…QUIT SHOOTING DOES!!! Sit back and reassess the population in three years. Knee jerk regulation changes will only hurt us long term.

Jace Elliot from the Iowa DNR gave a talk at Ankeny before the IBA Spring Banquet. He showed a map of the state and the adjustments they are going to make in issuing antlerless tags. I was rather miffed to see that they are going to increase the number of antlerless tags for Johnson County. I commented that they might want to be cautious doing that, as I found lots of EHD dead deer last fall in Johnson Co. Also, there are lots of areas in Johnson Co that have high numbers because they CAN'T be hunted. Issuing more tags will not have the desired impact in those areas. I'm sure that the antlerless tags will sell out in Johnson Co like they always do....

 

[iowaqdm]

Jace Elliot from the Iowa DNR gave a talk at Ankeny before the IBA Spring Banquet. He showed a map of the state and the adjustments they are going to make in issuing antlerless tags. I was rather miffed to see that they are going to increase the number of antlerless tags for Johnson County. I commented that they might want to be cautious doing that, as I found lots of EHD dead deer last fall in Johnson Co. Also, there are lots of areas in Johnson Co that have high numbers because they CAN'T be hunted. Issuing more tags will not have the desired impact in those areas. I'm sure that the antlerless tags will sell out in Johnson Co like they always do....

Unfortunately, the DNR will bend to Farm Bureau’s desire to keep the population shot down. The DNR will continue to issue high doe tag quotas. Fortunately, it is up to us to either fill those tags or not. That is where we need to be educating other fellow deer hunters to stop shooting does. It is in our hands. We need to hold ourselves and others that we hunt with accountable when it comes to laying off the does so we can get the population back up.