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YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH DEER #'s

What are deer number like on the ground you are hunting?

  • Extremely low

    Votes: 4 2.5%

  • Extremely low & last 5 years have been a downward spiral (worse over time)

    Votes: 25 15.9%

  • Low

    Votes: 42 26.8%

  • Low to Medium but enough to keep me excited

    Votes: 36 22.9%

  • Medium

    Votes: 21 13.4%

  • Good amount of deer

    Votes: 43 27.4%

  • Extremely High

    Votes: 2 1.3%

  • Far overpopulated

    Votes: 3 1.9%
  • Total voters
    157
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Saw the other post with the Daily Iowan there BUT I wanted to know what members here have been seeing for deer #'s on GROUND THEY HUNT. I hunt a few different places, it's really the spectrum for deer #'s. Super high and others I wish there were far more, crazy what 20 miles difference can be. I am very concerned with upper 2/3rd's of state! I am concerned about most the other folks out there & I'd like to see what folks have been seeing with this poll.
 
We have 2 different areas we hunt. One for bow season, one for gun season. Actually, the number of deer we have seen has been better on our farms the last couple of years. But I attribute that to crops. Both places are surrounded by CRP fields, and our areas have the only crops around.

So it is hard for me to say what the population is actually like in our ENTIRE area, but I can say that in my 7 mile drive to work through rural Iowa every morning, I have seen wwwaaaaaayyyyyy fewer road kills over the last 3 years. Used to see a new kill every 3-5 days along the highway. Yesterday, I seen the first roadkill on that stretch since last fall!
 
A lot of farms around us are pushing a ton of trees off timbers and ditches, it's pretty sickening to see...as far as the deer population...I still see a lot of deer...most people in our area (southwest Iowa) that complain about deer population declining are the ones that dont leave the paved roads...
 
I hunt in eastern Iowa - linn, jones, and jackson counties. Jones Co. is really down the last couple of years, but still enough to keep me excited and hunt as much as I can. There are areas in Linn Co. that have a ton of deer, and other areas not so much. The other properties I hunt in Jackson Co. have plenty of deer, but still nothing like it was a few years ago, just steadily declining.
 
In all honestly out of the three farms my families own 2 have extremely low deer populations. The other one has a surplus but it is the only crop ground surrounded by a ton of timber and CRP ground. Lots of does there. These are muscatine and louisa county.
 
The areas I hunt in SW Iowa are on the downward spiral. There are still deer, and enough to keep a guy excited. But definately going down. Go down the road a few miles and there are tons again, but Im afraid that will be changing soon
 
The areas in ne iowa are way down and I don't see any stopping in this with the amount of shotgun hunters. On our one property, every buck we had on the cameras was either shot or we found dead except for one spike and a smaller eight. Hardly see any deer now compared to couple years ago.
 
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Skip: Where we looked for sheds this weekend, had lots of deer! That being said, we were looking on two extremely good farms!!
 
Our deer number's are pretty good on our ground. We have 800+ acres of prariegrass and timber ground that deer just go crazy for. Soo many places for deer to bed down in. Also we have a public lake just a half mile to the west of us that holds deer like no other. They actually had to open up a doe online season in the lake's ground just to lower than number of deer.
 
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I know I have land in one of the worst spots in SE Iowa,,so I have been told. I also only hunt 40 acres but back when I started in 2005, I saw 2 or three bucks a day, various sizes. Last Oct Nov, I hunted three wks.same land. Saw 10 deer.Hunted every morn till noonish,,many evenings when wind was right.
 
Sounds like its nicer pockets that still have deer. Id say they are down 1/3 to 1/2 in my area. Nothing like shooting a pickup load or two tossing them in a ditch to bring down the numbers .
 
Obviously, where the MOST damage has been done is to the guys in avg, high pressure areas with folks owning 40's, 160's, etc. The average ground or areas with high % of ag and little timber. The areas that will always have high deer #'s - the folks who have 500 acres they own/manage, they will always be able to decide what kind of deer #'s it has and they are immune from a lot of "bad decisions" the avg farms may have to face. So much difference between the avg 80's, 100's, etc VS a big land owner (and in NO WAY am I knocking big land owners with this, just explaining the difference).
 
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