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Press Release from Farm Bureau & Gov. Town Meetings

This is all fine and dandy guys, we can buy up tags, contact our officials, practice management on our own farms, etc. BUT....... and I have said this before..... WE are the ones that need to police and educate the other hunters. The guys on this site and the guys that are passionate about whitetails make up the minority of deer hunters in Iowa. As I stated in another post, I would be willing to say that 90% of deer hunters in Iowa hunt 3-4 days a year and have an out of site out of mind mentality when it comes to deer. What I am getting at is that those other "hunters" have no idea what is going on in Iowa and the big picture right now. They will continue to buy the tags and shoot every deer that runs by. If you walk into the sporting goods section of wal mart and ask a random guy wearing a camo hat what he thinks about the proposed decrease in doe tags and seasons and Gov. Branstads opposition to it, he will look at you like you are speaking chinese. We need to do a better job of educating them. I am so frustrated and feel like Im going in circles, but it is a passion and a lifestyle that I am not willing to see ruined by the A-holes in our Government and I will continue to fight for all of the people that arent motivated enough in the "off season" to speak up or just really don't care. I will be in Cresco tonight at 5:30 and I hope to see some of you there.
 
I think that's all great thoughts. Education, etc... excellent! Regs will ALWAYS be #1 though. The reason IA is far far better than its neighbors: REGULATIONS (such as a Dec 5 gun season as ONE of MANY examples) and NOT because our hunters are far far more educated than our neighbors. I totally agree on educating folks BUT realistically that is, like you said, 90% of the guys out there and by the time we accomplished this, it could be 15 years from now (or never, like "educating" folks to get off welfare) BUT our hunting could be destroyed by horrible Regs in 3-5 years. We need to RUSH to change the stupid or politically/$ driven decisions that are horrible for our state coming out and stand firm/fight that they don't make more of them. Regs TRUMP anything we can do, hands down. I sure agree with your statements and education efforts 100% though. Regulations will be more impactful than ANYTHING though.
 
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I completely agree Skip. What I was getting at is that we will never get the regulations changed or impacted without a majority of hunters "fighting for the cause" so to say. And without educating them about what is going on, I fear we don't have the numbers like Farm Bureau or the financial backing without the majority of Iowa hunters speaking up. I have been to these meetings only to see 15 guys sitting there, or have heard about the Waterloo meeting where 1 person showed up. Our archery club (echo valley archers) added a whole bunch of people to the IBA this year, when JakeWym and myself were explaining to the members what the IBA was and what they stand for, most of them had no idea that the IBA even existed, and these are all deer hunters. My point is that a few of us fighting hard for and supporting the DNR proposals and fighting for our hunting heritage is not enough. Strength in numbers. If we want the regs changed (which we do) than all of your buddies and your neighbors and your community better know what they have to gain or worse, lose.
 
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I completely agree Skip. What I was getting at is that we will never get the regulations changed or impacted without a majority of hunters "fighting for the cause" so to say. And without educating them about what is going on, I fear we don't have the numbers like Farm Bureau or the financial backing without the majority of Iowa hunters speaking up. I have been to these meetings only to see 15 guys sitting there, or have heard about the Waterloo meeting where 1 person showed up. Our archery club (echo valley archers) added a whole bunch of people to the IBA this year, when JakeWym and myself were explaining to the members what the IBA was and what they stand for, most of them had no idea that the IBA even existed, and these are all deer hunters. My point is that a few of us fighting hard for and supporting the DNR proposals and fighting for our hunting heritage is not enough. Strength in numbers. If we want the regs changed (which we do) than all of your buddies and your neighbors and your community better know what they have to gain or worse, lose.
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Totally agree! Folks need to wake up, get educated and get off their butts. Right on.
 
Maybe an increase in government subsidies to the farmers (in the name of deer habitat) would put an end to these extended deer seasons. Oh wait a minute; i think they are already getting that! Nothing gets the farmers attention faster than a government check in the mailbox. Just try to get between them!
 
If anything you would think that the money we hunters put into our communities and communities that we hunt in would help the economy.
 
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