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I know that as I have said that I harp on the numbers aspect of this issue along with what I personally observe. If you take the time to look over the IDNR http://www.iowadnr.gov/wildlife/files/files/logbook_08log.pdf I hope that you will see the same things that I do, and that is that our deer...

I see a lot of posts here that some of the people are trying to keep things going, but with 0 replies and my own participation is very lacking along with some of you others. How about this to stir up a little conversation. I was reading about the Knight problems and about how well some like...

I haven't seen anything lately, are the DNR ICN meetings still on for tonight. I hope to attend the Ottumwa meeting, still might have a conflict, but I was wondering if others plan to attend. Also will we be able to ask questions or do we need to have them written out and give them to the on...

I was just on the IDNR site to get the NR tag numbers for 2007 for the other post and decided to check the harvest by county numbers. It looks like we are in for another sizable decline again this year. The total reported harvest stands at 118,572 as of today. In looking back at the trends in...

Well I am back at it again. I just found some of the stats that have been missing from the DNR site, or at least I could not find them for a while. http://www.iowadnr.com/wildlife/files/logbook.html is where I found this info. In looking at this current and past info it looks like the DNR...

I had a first time experience happen over the week end while deer hunting. Saturday evening I shot a nice big doe with my Knight rifle and she ran off instead of falling down dead. I tracked her for about a half mile before it got just too dark. I called the other three guys in the group and...

Just as a change of pace who ever put up that picture of the young lady on the home page should send it to the DNR to use on next years brochures. I think that is the neatest picture about deer hunting that I have seen in a long time. It covers all the good points, a young person happy and...

I have a question for all the experts on here. In very cold weather like now cattle and horses need large amounts of water to stay healthy. What do the deer do for water when every thing is frozen. In my area there are very few cattle so the deer can't be sharing their water source. Every...

The question came up on another board so I was hoping to get one of the DNR people here to give us an answer. If you buy a hunting license for 2006 as soon as you can is it valid for the rest of 2005 and until Jan 10 of 2007. I think they said that the 06 licenses weren't available until after...

I know that I can get very opinionated on here but I need to express my feeling about a tv program I watched. This was taped off the Outdoor Channel and was about a deer management program on a ranch in Texas. I don't even remember the name of the show, but it talked about the poor quality of...

I have a question for anyone who can answer. Why are we restricted on turkey licenses to either 2 combo or 2 bow licenses only, and why can't a landowner get a license for any season and buy a license for any season with out being restricted to one 4th season. I would realy like to use both a...

Last night on the way home from work I saw a first for me. As I came arround a corner in the road I saw a few turkeys in a planted feild. There was a big tom breeding a hen as I stopped to watch another tom came racing out of the timber and knocked the first tom clear off his feet. The lady...

Spring turkey hunting AIN'T about killing a bird, and that is all you would be doing if you shot one on the roost. Turkey hunting is about hearing those old boys gobbling up in the trees while you stumble arround in the dark trying to setup decoys and not spook Tom in the process. Making soft...

I was wondering how many of you turkey hunters have had coyotes come in to your setup. I have had several and even killed one. I had just shot a big tom and he was flipping and flopping arround when a coyote ran out of a draw and pounced on him. I was pretty suprised but managed to dispatch...

I have read several comments lately about the "evil party hunt". I don't think that party hunting is a horrible thing. My family group, until the last couple of years, would have been considered party hunters. Our goal was to see that each hunter had a deer to tag. All of these deer were...