Too bad when a few wreck it for the rest!! Seems like the NR bowhunter is not welcome in Iowa.... Limiting the percentage of NR tags going to bowhunters... Never really understood that?
It's limiting the pressure on mature bucks when they are most vulnerable....the rut. If they didn't limit the NR's there would probably be an additional 50,000 bow hunters in IA every fall and herd quality would diminish in a hurry.
magnus said:Instead of offering reasonably priced doe tags to nonresident landowners, they decided to have a ridiculous mid-late January "doe-only" rifle hunt. Problem is hunters often can't tell diff between does and shed-bucks.....or don't care. And it doesn't matter legally because dead anterless deer is all that matters. Doesn't anyone think its a strange coincidence that buck quality has gone down in the 3 years that this Jan antlerless season has been happening?? This is #1 threat to the buck quality in Iowa. If DNR were serious about keeping IA as the top whitetail state, they'd abandon that thing and figure out a better way to get does killed. Some kind of earlier season hunt, with shotguns/muzzleloaders would seem to be the obvious answer.
magnus said:Doesn't anyone think its a strange coincidence that buck quality has gone down in the 3 years that this Jan antlerless season has been happening??
3 years? They've had the January antlerless season since for at least a decade now.
I think there is a real easy solution to the problem of NR owning land and the restrictions on archery doe tags. Allow a NR archery doe tag or tags at a reasonable price for landowner/family only. Maybe add incentive to allow local residents or a neighbor to take a doe/does as well.
Most NR go to their property every year anyway, so allow them to hunt every year with archery gear and control the population.
Right now they offer doe tags for NR for shotgun and holiday, so what is the difference?
Agree. Two things did change in that decade, more weapon choices were allowed in the southern third of the state and fewer counties are now a part of it.3 years? They've had the January antlerless season since for at least a decade now.
I will not support doe only tags for any NR, landowner or not, for the very reason it was taken away. Too much documented law breaking with the NR being able to legally hunt but illegally shoot a buck. I would support more any sex tags before doe tags in archery season. That one just makes no sense due to the abuse when it was allowed.
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Actually I really doubt it was landowners who were breaking the law on the "documented" law breaking. Besides what are you going to do, take priviledges away every time someone breaks the law. Game violation... sorry you "all" are not welcome to hunt that way anymore... Think of the enormous trespass problem by residents in Iowa, yet nothing is done to change the law.
Are you really opposed to allowing my son who is 12 years old to come down with his dad and shoot a doe on the land his family owns, it would in know way effect you, it will help our cause of management and the state of Iowa would get some cash in return.
jclaws said:Im guessing he is talking about the late january rifle season in southern iowa.And the january season wasnt always this long.
Sorry, I do support landowner NR doe tags for the gun seasons. I do NOT support doe tags for the bow seasons. It's not about ethical hunters, it is about a loophole that was too much to keep up with and criminals taking advantage of it. If it were one or two, I would agree, don't change the law, but it was way more and way worse than that. Our DNR enforcement officers are already spread too thin. The NR hunters still have as many tags as they did before, just not that one BAD option.
Agree. Resident doe tags during gun season is also a license to shoot bucks and tag them with a resident tag (or NR) under the party hunting rules.NR doe tags during the gun season is a license to shoot bucks and tag them with a resident tag under the party hunting rules.
Agree. Resident doe tags during gun season is also a license to shoot bucks and tag them with a resident tag (or NR) under the party hunting rules.
If they took those away, how would a NR shoot a doe...?
You do not support a NR shooting a doe, but you support a resident landowner shooting (3) bucks in one season?
Are you concerned about management or alternatives motives?