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hillrunner

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Instead of asking others to give things up, what are you currently doing that you would be ok with the state taking away for the betterment of the herd? I'm not interested in what you think others need to change. We've already got that thread.
I'll start:
-Cell cams, I have 4
-Scoped muzzleloader, I've hunted with a muzzy since 2001. Iron sites would be fine with me.
-floating lo tag,
-water tanks (feels an awful lot like baiting) . Natural filled water holes would still be ok.
 
Great idea/ thread!

Cell cams (already did basically besides security)
Buck tag
Floating landowner tag
Smokeless muzzy
Floating youth tag (my kids)
Straight wall (my kids)
Thermal coyote hunting

This was said in jest in another thread and 100% not happening but id give up peak rut hunting completely!

Here's another not happening but id sign up for..... no bucks for 2 years.
 
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Antlerless harvest until further notice
Long range muzzleloader downgrade either powder or optics

Straight wall rifles elimination or atleast optics restriction

Instant photos from cell cameras ( have them dump once a week random time after shooting hours)

Floating landowner tag

Go to one buck ( but make it an actual sacrifice and don’t make the tag float for 5 seasons)

Tag sharing (haven’t done it in years but would potentially apply again when my kids are older )

Shorten firearm and muzzleloader seasons by 20% each (4 day gun 1, 7 day gun 2, end muzzloader Jan 5)

Thermal during any open deer season

Radios for coyotes during late muzzleloader
 
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-Cell cams. Honestly I miss the days of pulling cards, it was like Christmas morning. I've moved mine to people surveillance more than deer surveillance. If I hear another hunting story on a podcast or FB post with the gist is: "I got a buzz on my phone, checked the app, saw him go into a bedding area, killed him that afternoon" I'm going to chuck my phone out the truck window.

-Mowing corn. The "how is that not baiting?" guys are right and give credence to the "why can't I just bait?" crowd. It's a bad look and hypocritical for anyone who enjoys food plotting and hates baiting.

-Smokeless and magnified scopes on muzzleloaders

-Antlerless harvest period, particularly in western Iowa. We're pretty close to that already.
 
Hawk32 said:
After this season I’m willing to give up pretty much everything I have. Bow, cloths, stands, cams, drill, and anything else I’m forgetting that has to do with shooting a stupid deer.
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In the same boat- although I have only bowhunted for about 7 days total in the last 5 years so there’s that this fall and next year isn’t looking so good already but we shall see.
Serious note- I’d give up a tag- but I still see a LOT being valuable but needs to make sense. NOT just an acreage amount but % of coverage type tag. I want to keep all the habitat I can for deer.
Cell cams- not saying get rid of but have the cell manufacturers do a “midnight dump” right into the programming only.
Seasons- I’ve always said end Dec 31…
Late muzzy- no group hunting and “more” traditional rifles- not the smokeless or handgun type stuff.
I want all doe tags gone for 2 years- except youth. Then revisit numbers.
Youth tags NOT to float- and I’ve got 2 up and comers. I want them to cherish it and understand the limits- it’s a choice to hunt and you have to make those choices.
I want the bow site range finders gone.
I’m sure I’m missing something- but that’s a nutshell
 
Good posts guys. On a further note, I just finished watching Jared Mills post on YouTube. All is not lost. He had one heck of an afternoon hunt on that video with several mature bucks and a field full of deer. Fair chase too, nothing fenced or staged. All age classes of bucks represented. Shows that parts of the state are still awesome and with a few tweaks a good portion of Iowa could be that way again. Didn’t mean to high jack the thread but I felt there was some relevance.


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Why should I give up anything?

Been years since I killed a deer with SML and it was Gun Season 1. 50 yard shot. Longest SML before that was 175 yard and that is not my game, I want them closer for a higher percentage shot. Not into the long-range shooting (versus hunting) thing.

Last late ML buck was actually with Blackhorn 209.

My compound bows date back to 2000-2013 so not chasing new tech there. I can see trad in my future.

Don't have any cell cams. Last weekend I pulled stands and SD card from cams. There was a surprise on one of the cards that might have changed my hunting strategy if I'd seen it earlier, camera card changed first part of November then last weekend. Oh well, I hope he shows back up next year if he survived this year.

Haven't shot any does for a few years now. Have an unfilled statewide archery and a floating LOT that I doubt I will fill. Haven't bought county or LOT antlerless tags for years.

Not trying to "virtue signal" here, just that I don't feel the need to punch every tag like I once did. It's not the method or tag availability; it comes down to the hunter. I'll let the DNR be the "bad man" with method of take/season adjustments.
 
1. No semi automatic weapons
2. 1 buck tag limit
3. 2 deer limit total
4. No cell cams - except for property surveillance during entire deer season
5. No bowhunting first 2 weeks November
6. Shotgun season reduced to 1 week (7 total days), no Gun 2
7. Late muzzleloader - from end of Gun 1 to Dec. 31 (end of deer season)
 
JNRBRONC said:
Not trying to "virtue signal" here, just that I don't feel the need to punch every tag like I once did. It's not the method or tag availability; it comes down to the hunter. I'll let the DNR be the "bad man" with method of take/season adjustments.
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I think that's the point here. Many of us on here can self regulate and enjoy the challenge. That would be the extreme minority. The majority have AR straight walls with magazines loaded to the gills, ready to fill every tag in their pocket.
 
You folks actually have these things and are actually giving them up, or are you speaking about “if” you had you would give up? Is this a hypothetical question thread, or are you actually willing to give up something you have?

JNRBRONC, well said and mine could almost mirror your comments. One thing I can’t do is go traditional with the bow. I’m old enough that I started that way and me doing that again would be unethical for the animals. I would quit before going back to that again. My 600 yard muzzleloader has 140” drop at that range. Almost 12’! Long range smokeless gun. Ya, right. Sure, it can be done, same as compound bows taking animals at 100+ yards, but I am not good enough to go that path and I always try to set up for under 100. I am comfortable to 200. The folks who bash the long range muzzleloader have no clue that they are long range for very very few trigger pullers. No cell cams for me either. I have more cameras than I ever thought one person could use, but no cell cams.

Iowa, you are going antlerless only? Really? Good for you but why? I am 100% opposite. Buck only. No either sex tags going on a doe, and I already ate my one antlerless only tag. Bucks only for me.
 
JNRBRONC said:
Why should I give up anything?

Been years since I killed a deer with SML and it was Gun Season 1. 50 yard shot. Longest SML before that was 175 yard and that is not my game, I want them closer for a higher percentage shot. Not into the long-range shooting (versus hunting) thing.

Last late ML buck was actually with Blackhorn 209.

My compound bows date back to 2000-2013 so not chasing new tech there. I can see trad in my future.

Don't have any cell cams. Last weekend I pulled stands and SD card from cams. There was a surprise on one of the cards that might have changed my hunting strategy if I'd seen it earlier, camera card changed first part of November then last weekend. Oh well, I hope he shows back up next year if he survived this year.

Haven't shot any does for a few years now. Have an unfilled statewide archery and a floating LOT that I doubt I will fill. Haven't bought county or LOT antlerless tags for years.

Not trying to "virtue signal" here, just that I don't feel the need to punch every tag like I once did. It's not the method or tag availability; it comes down to the hunter. I'll let the DNR be the "bad man" with method of take/season adjustments.
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I agree 100pct bud ! It's trigger control !!!!

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I’ve said all along that 1 buck & season over by Dec 31 would go a long ways . I would give up anything after Dec 31, & as a NR landowner I can’t give up much more. Pretty restrictive already !
 
150 Class said:
You folks actually have these things and are actually giving them up, or are you speaking about “if” you had you would give up? Is this a hypothetical question thread, or are you actually willing to give up something you have?

JNRBRONC, well said and mine could almost mirror your comments. One thing I can’t do is go traditional with the bow. I’m old enough that I started that way and me doing that again would be unethical for the animals. I would quit before going back to that again. My 600 yard muzzleloader has 140” drop at that range. Almost 12’! Long range smokeless gun. Ya, right. Sure, it can be done, same as compound bows taking animals at 100+ yards, but I am not good enough to go that path and I always try to set up for under 100. I am comfortable to 200. The folks who bash the long range muzzleloader have no clue that they are long range for very very few trigger pullers. No cell cams for me either. I have more cameras than I ever thought one person could use, but no cell cams.

Iowa, you are going antlerless only? Really? Good for you but why? I am 100% opposite. Buck only. No either sex tags going on a doe, and I already ate my one antlerless only tag. Bucks only for me.
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I was listing things I have given up
#1 being antlerless harvest
 
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