Thanks for all the help guys, i plan on puttin in this coming up year for archery tag, if i have enogh luck i'll get drawn the first year but highly unlikely. I've had my eyes on SE iowa for 2 years now and plan on taking a trip out to get a feel of the land. I wish Ky was a draw only state. We have so many people hunting here that most farmers lease their farms for 20 to 30$ a acre some people like me ain't got that kinda money lol. As far as our public land it's not bow hunted at all, but come rifle season ha good luck finding a place that doesn't have a hunter every 100 yards in a tree or a field full of people walking around. The deer numbers are very low on Peabody WMA were i live. I've wrote several emails to fish and wildlife but nothing will get done about it. They used to have a draw only first week of rifle season but that went in the dumpster. It's going down hill fast. Our fish and wildlife department won't do anything for the wildlife except rabbit and quail. Permit's go up in price and amount of work goe's down. I hunt peabody hard the first 2 months of bow season and might see 10 deer the whole bow season there. No food for the deer. If they would make it a all draw hunt and take the application fee money and permit money and start puttin in food plot's, and doing habitat improvment for the deer and turkey populations would go back up. Also i think they should limit the number of deer and turkey hunters per year with a min. 15" antler limit on deer. Jus my opinion though, I guess one person isn't goin to make a difference.
What should you expect hunting public land in SE iowa in deer sightings per hunt and buck to doe ration while on stand?
