Recent content by BenA

They don't look great, but they're coming out of the most nutritionally stressful portion of their lives if they have fawns. Are you seeing many fawns around?

I think close to half, if not more now of KDFWR bills are paid by non-residents. But, KY lets resident landowners hunt on their own property without a license. Considering 95% of KY is privately owned, that could be a significant amount of revenue if they started to charge for those landowner...

From the interweb: "Iowa's hunting and fishing license revenues for the 2020 fiscal year brought in $37.4 million" "Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife's Restricted Fish and Game Fund received $33,565,298.55 from hunting and fishing licenses in Fiscal Year 2020" Do Iowa landowners have...

Imagine sitting on stand with a rifle for months like in Louisiana and some other states in the south. Deer are a lot less visible down here though. I don't disagree with you about regulations being needed to correct age structures. I just don't like the bickering it causes between hunters about...

Because, if you can have a sustained harvest of bucks every year, and that harvest total is made up of 50% yearlings, to have an advanced age structure like Iowa does, means you're not killing anywhere close to a significant amount of your standing crop of bucks each year. Sorry for the long...

Exactly. That is one of the restrictions that limits the number of bucks taken each year. There's a million ways to limit the buck harvest. Iowa has found a combination that works for them.

Iowa's buck harvest is made up of 40-50% yearlings. Other states couldn't do that with the number of hunters they have and have bucks left. Iowa gets away with it because of the limiting of bucks through regulations.

We're still talking about limiting buck harvests with regulations. Cut crossbows, cut baiting, cut rifles in the rut. Those are all ways to cut the number of bucks taken. Just get to the point and cut the number taken and stop with the hunter pitted against hunter.

All of these regulations people want to get bigger bucks are, at their foundation, a regulation to get more bucks livingon to the next year. Why not just limit the number of bucks taken, so there are more bucks living on? Sell buck tags according to what the area can sustain being taken. Use...

But, populations are controlled through doe harvests. Reducing overall buck harvest numbers is going to do nothing but raise the age structure. You could decrease populations by killing just does and leaving all the bucks alive if you wanted to. Not saying that should be an option, just that...

I manage iPhone and Android devices as part of my job. If she's used to Android, I'd stick to that. Most of my users have iPhones, but it's just what they think they like. I could use either, but prefer Androids. I am seeing some of my users making the switch to Androids.

Do you think a state could have its buck harvest be comprised of 40-50% yearlings, and still have a good age structure or be considered a "destination state"?

I think you're right on with the tags, and something could be done with that. State game and fish departments have a tremendous resource available to them now with the maturing and advancement of drones. If researched, refined, and standardized, sample population and sex structure estimates...

Can a state manage for age structure while allowing crossbows, non-residents, guns, etc? Meaning, can you manage for age structure while managing population densities regardless of weapon or residency? I think you can, but you'd make some people unhappy.

Yeah, those maps definitely show where the non-residents are concentrating on. They're going north and probably because of the reputation of north MO bucks. I know I was looking there when deciding where to buy between MO and KY.