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I read today on the Iowa Game and Fish web site that the deer herd is so large that some insurance companies and legislators may consider forcing the DNR to have a large kill-off of the Iowa Deer herd. I also read on the Quality Deer Management Web site about how in 2002 Pennsylvania had some aggressive restrictions on the harvesting of bucks that encourgaged hunters to take more does (I think hunters could only take a buck with 4 points on a side). According to the article the Pennsylvania experiment with this seemed to work very well.
My thought is this: Should the Iowa DNR implement a more restrictive buck harvesting policy (like the one in Pennsylvania) and then make doe tags more accessible for all hunters?
It seems to me that if the DNR would do this we would have a sharp increase in the number of mature bucks and at the same time the number of does would go down. Which apparently is the recipie for a healthy deer herd. If the state implemented this, Iowa could become the greatest whitetail hunting destination in the US, and local hunters would be having the opportunity to take huge deer that they would never have had the opportunity to take in the past.
I'm curious about how other whitetail enthusiasts feel about this idea.
My thought is this: Should the Iowa DNR implement a more restrictive buck harvesting policy (like the one in Pennsylvania) and then make doe tags more accessible for all hunters?
It seems to me that if the DNR would do this we would have a sharp increase in the number of mature bucks and at the same time the number of does would go down. Which apparently is the recipie for a healthy deer herd. If the state implemented this, Iowa could become the greatest whitetail hunting destination in the US, and local hunters would be having the opportunity to take huge deer that they would never have had the opportunity to take in the past.
I'm curious about how other whitetail enthusiasts feel about this idea.