Hardwood11
It is going to be a good fall!
coyote good point
Excellent point! There are worse states to hunt believe me I can speak from experience!
Excellent point! There are worse states to hunt believe me I can speak from experience!
THA4
A Few Steps Ahead Of You
birddown101
Member
risto2351
Well-Known Member
Not tring to get off topic Hotshott and yes I agree with you, but
the one thing I hate about H.U.S.H. is that if I remember correctly
Farm Bureau was asked to contribute to the cause and they said that
they would not do that. We then were asked to foot the bill.
They could of at least helped out.
Just curious what happens to the money if there is a HUSH program overfunding....meaning if Iowa sells four hundred thousand licenses and HUSH skims a dollar a piece off of those licenses. Then only just a limited number of deer get turned into the HUSH lockers(@75.00 per deer to the locker) and there is a surplus of 100 grand where does the money go ?
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Cooter
Active Member
risto2351
Well-Known Member
Don't really know. Good question.
The other thing I wondered is where does the meat go? I know food pantries but I have heard a lot of the meat goes to the penitentiary also?
Sorry it doesnt cover anything about surplus moneys if not enough deer are donated
hotshott2289
Active Member
using the 405,547 tags sold in 2009 and the 6,300 deer donated in 2010 as an example.. the locker gets $75/deer. then the state is almost $70,000 in the hole..
letemgrow
PMA Member
On another note I know some lockers that buy LOTS of doe tags and whack the heck out of them during the late antlerless seasons. $13 doe tags and they get paid $75 to process them. Not a bad day of work.
Maybe they can be funnelled to areas where a doe harvest is needed? I am trying to get guys to hunt my place to whack some does and can't get anyone to go hunt it.
On another note I know some lockers that buy LOTS of doe tags and whack the heck out of them during the late antlerless seasons. $13 doe tags and they get paid $75 to process them. Not a bad day of work.
it ought to be illegal....
blakesburg
PMA Member
At first some of the meet went to the pen, but I asked a worker from Mt. pleasant pen and he said that they can no longer get the deer meat cause so many of the inmates complained about being served deer.
Windwalker
Life Member
Deer yard up on me I'm guessing they are down over a half of what the were. Its ok to take some does out of heavy pockets but over all we are hurting out deer hunting.
Thinkin Rut
PMA Member
The "running doe count" in the harvest forum will prove to be a reflection of how ignorant we really are.
Crockett
PMA Member
How ignorant we are???? What ya got here bub is a state that is about To be sold down the river!!!! Nobody really cares about 10-20 years down the road! If you spend $500.00 for a tag...We are gonna kill something! Then ya got the...Whoo look at me!!!!! I killed alot deer with a bow!!!!!! Ya got locals shooting 18-20 does in city hunts just so they can get a buck tag and kill a buck thats been eating flowers it's whole life! Sorry! Those big city bucks ain't the same as one that's been living it'life dodgiing everything! I think they shold be entered apart from wild bucks!! And I have not shoot a doe in about 12 years if that will make ya happy!!!!!! Iowa as a deer hunting state! Is up for sale!! Get all grinny the next time ya watch Lee & Stiffany, or the Kinski's! on the toob!!loneranger
Well-Known Member
Managed deer hunt preserves are one thing. If you live near one,,,alota deer. If you don't,,not that many. I do not shoot does in my area. Not when you only see 2 or 3 in three wks. Yes,,, this is Iowa.
bloodhoundhandler
New Member
I think lockers only get $55 to do a HUSH deer unless they raised it from last year. In my opinion the Hush program has been the worst thing for our deer heard. Makes it way to easy and convenient to pull that trigger knowing all you have to do is go drop it off and it doesn't cost you anything and thinking inside your head that some poor family with holes in their pants and shoes are waiting at the food pantry for a package of meat that some hunter just shot.