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Are you a landowner??? If yes, you likely grow an annual crop of corn & soybeans for harvest. Do you expect to be paid for these crops when they are harvested? You probably also grow hay. Do you expect to be paid for the hay bales that are harvested from your land each year? You may also graze cattle on your land. Do you want money in return for the beef you provide at time of slaughter?

I would guess nearly all landowners in Iowa would answer "yes" to the above questions.

Here's a tougher question...

Do you grow pheasants & deer on your land? Most Iowans of course do, but do they charge for access rights to "crop" the annual harvestable excess of these 2 species? More than likely they do not.

WHY??? It is because of you and what you do on your land that it is able to grow pheasants & deer. Each year there is often an excess of both of these species (especially deer right?). Why not charge for the recreation YOU provide for the harvest, or "cropping" of these 2 game species?

Hunting is a multibillion dollar industry just as farming and ranching are. Why should you be intimidated by your neighbors so that they can hunt your land for free & "crop" the pheasants & deer that you grow & provide?

Mickey W. Hellickson
 
Wow, that's so nice that you care for all those landowners so much. And you are offering this kind of help with absolutely no concern at all for yourself. And you have no vested interest in charging lots and lots of money to buy a deer . . . like say - up to $20,000 for a real 'biggun. Because given the guidelines that some of 'those' people use, my son's bow kill this last fall is worth over $8000. Gosh, you're the best !
 
Stir the pot some more dear friend
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Because given the guidelines that some of 'those' people use, my son's bow kill this last fall is worth over $8000. Gosh, you're the best

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I was wondering myself what $$$ I would've had to fork over for all the $1500.00 "cull bucks" I've shot over the years.
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BTW, I can't stand the term "cull buck". Did that originate in Texas?
 
.....since the crops, hay, cattle are so valuable, I prefer to think of my game harvest as more of a bounty driven thing, what do you suppose I should start charging my friends to kill the rodents that steal their livestock feed.....kidding of course, but I will venture to say that TX mentality won't be to popular on this forum for some time. Pay to play should be fought to the very end. I've seen first hand what kind of hunting oppurtunities the have nots have in TX and its not pretty. Oh, and for the record I sure don't feel as if the landowner "owns" the wild game residing on his property.

Best of luck!
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Mickey, are you for real? That is the most absurd thing I have read in a while. You call yourself a wildlife biologist but you sound more like a pimp, prostituting God's creation for personal gain.

Hey everybody, my uncle raises Angus and for about $5000, I can get you a 3 day hunt for a trophy bull. No high fences, just a little bit of barbed wire.

Sound absurd? So does the first post.
 
When all the land is leased out we can make a good living a professional hunters. Shooting does on leased land. The insurance companies don't think we shoot enough does now, what will they do when the land is all leased out.
 
Folks,

It's interesting that some of you think my post is absurd. Landowners in Texas and the SE U.S. have been charging for hunting access for more than 4 decades! It's time to wake up Iowans! Many landowners in Iowa are providing the BEST deer hunting in the entire United States all for free! You charge for corn, you charge for beans, you charge for hay, you charge for grazing, why on earth would you not charge for the best deer hunting in the U.S.?

Mick
 
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You charge for corn, you charge for beans, you charge for hay, you charge for grazing, why on earth would you not charge for the best deer hunting in the U.S.?


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They didn't plant the deer, the pheasants, the turkeys. If they did, they are probably protecting their "crop" with a 10 foot fence. Then I can see charging folks to harvest their crops. But that is a whole other can of worms.
 
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I've seen first hand what kind of hunting oppurtunities the have nots have in TX and its not pretty.

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Me too DOR. My brother has a lease in TX. Lots of public ground in TX but lots of hunters too. If you want to hunt there and not get run over you gotta lease. I hope and pray it never comes to that here.
 
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What kind of popcorn does everyone want?
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I like extra butter
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Why not think the reverse and tell the SE US to quit leasing land for all of those dinky little scrub bucks? MAybe everyone should have access to hunt good land?
 
Reason we dont charge, we arent dicks! Farmers allow us to hunt their land because they probably make enough money on their actual crops and they arent the ones growing the animals!! If they were growing the deer turkeys and pheasants.. i would see why they would charge.. but its gods creation and their is absolutely no reason to charge someone for that! We are also trying to keep population to a minimum! Not to where everything is extinct.. but enough to also save peoples lives!! I'm in 10th grade and did a speech over the effects of hunting! Many people are killed from deer on the road in the US!! By hunting and not chargin $1000+ dollars.. we are saving people on the road!! Thats just what i think.. we have no need to charge big money to do something we all love! Just understand... u are from texas and we are from iowa... no one really cares about the fact that texas does this and that! We are in Iowa hunting and are very generous people! Deal with it!!

BTW- You are a nonresident hunter... ull be charged more than resident hunters!! Does that make it better? Leave it be my goodness!!
 
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I am a landowner.

I'm also married.

Should I thus pimp out my wife?

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I wonder how that would float with her
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By the way I am pretty sure the TX BS isn't going to fly, you can keep pressing peoples buttons all you want but you are not going to change anyones mind on here, keep on charging for your brittany sized deer and we will keep shooting our corn fed monsters and managing the herd to keep it healthy just for being who we are.

Just a quick question for you, with all that leased up land down there how is the public hunting? How many guys do you get on a 1000 acre spread of public ground, I bet it is 10-20x what we have here, and with the wits I have seen represented by TX today I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that land. Because IA landowners are willing to let others hunt there land it helps control the deer population, the amount of crop damaged, often times gets them some free work during the off season ( repairing fences and helping with large projects), allows them to establish friendships with these people who in turn treat the farm and farmer with the upmost respect (I have seen just the opposite on leased land, with the because I am paying I should be able to do whatever I want attidtued), the list goes on and on. On top of that the public land is not overrun and you may be just as likely to find that trophy on the public ground as on the private ground (I know many of us have).
 
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Hey everybody, my uncle raises Angus and for about $5000, I can get you a 3 day hunt for a trophy bull. No high fences, just a little bit of barbed wire.



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Now thats kinda high for a trophy bull isn't it.
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