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IMO, way too many scenarios being thrown around just because people assume they know what's happening, mainly because they don't agree with the method of hunting. Iowa won't be what it was ten years ago, at least not statewide. Sure they'll be areas the population will increase, but Iowa loses...

I stopped shooting does three years ago, even when I'd see plenty of them where I hunt. Cass county stopped allowing doe tags couple years ago. I don't bow hunt, so I'm already doing a one buck limit tag, even though haven't shot anything for a couple years and chances are won't this season...

Thread turned into more of a wish list they'd like everyone else to do versus what they would give up, or will give up for next year.

Some of the one I know, could only hunt the 1st season on the property they had permission on because others hunted 2nd season. They like deer and process their own. Said if 1st season was buck only, they were going to pass.

I know because I only gun hunt and don't bow hunt, always had just one anysex tag. What's wrong with everyone only having one anysex tag and hunting the season of their choice, with the exception of LO?

Might be hard to convince some that only gun hunt, a bow hunter can hunt all bow season and doesn’t see a good buck to shoot, to be able to also go gun hunting. Also a bow hunter could go back out LM with a bow the way the regs are now.

So what's the point of saying one buck tag if you're still allowed to get two buck tags if you also archery hunt? To me, one buck means exactly that, you choose the season you want to use your one tag in. I also think LO should still be able to get a LO tag, but wish the regs, as to what's...

Be interesting if any data has been collected from Cass, Page, Harrison, Monona, Pott, Fremont, or Montgomery counties since they eliminated the doe only tags and changed 1st season shotgun to buck only? Betting these counties lost more deer habitat than they've gained? This is the second...

I might be wrong, but if the regs in these counties are changed, it might make it pretty hard for a person who doesn't own ground to gain permission to hunt.

Don't forget to add, no hunting during the rut. Bows that shoot 40 to 50 yards are ridiculous. No aiming pins on bows allowed. Isn't it ironic how bow hunters never mention anything that affects their season or way of hunting when they're coming up with solutions?

As it is during shotgun season if wife, granny Betty, and aunt June aren't actually hunting, isn't it? That was the op's reason people were using other tags for party hunting. I'm hunting LM now. What's stopping me from using a tag in my wife's, granny Betty or aunt June's name? Just as...

Deer during bow season or ML seasons can also be tagged with a wife's, granny Betty, and aunt June's tag also, can't they? As far as giving tags to others, it does happen during other seasons too, and just because it's shotgun season, doesn't make it any more legal for a person to have...

Always going to be the ones who complain every year about party hunting, orange army and deer drives. As long as each deer is tagged with a legal tag and taken legally, I'm not going to complain what other hunters decide to shoot. Not everyone is out ot shoot a mature buck, yet some are pretty...

We didn't shoot any doe the last two years and won't thins year either. If I use my tag, it'll be on an older buck, or what I consider a lesser quality buck. Odds are, I won't shoot anything again this year, just sit and watch the deer. I saw plenty last year, just not what I'd consider to shoot.

Almost as easy as hunting bucks during the rut when they only have one thing on their mind.

I didn't see a lot of hunters out either when driving around. I don't hunt until LM either.

Wait, I thought the orange army shoots anything that moves? ;)

Yup use to live for this weekend. Had a group I hunted with for over twenty five years. Lot of great memories. Slowly started loosing hunting ground, so just decided to make a blind and sit. I hunt late ML now since no doe tags for the county I hunt, so I choose LM to sit.

Got a real nice 8, very tall at my brother that we're doing the same thing. If he makes it a couple more years, going to be a stud.

I was just going to say the same thing. Iowa doesn't have the habit it did when the deer numbers were high. I drive by three different areas I use to hunt, and everyone of them are row crop now with no place for deer to live. Not a lot of small farmers anymore and the big farmers with big...