Are the glory days of deer hunting coming to a close?

[BenA]

I wonder why land shares haven't caught on in areas like it has down here. Here it's more of residents displacing residents for deer hunting land.

 

[cbw]

Understood but from a resource and/or hunting standpoint why is a local more valuable that a nonresident? A lot of locals around me arent worth pissing on if they were on fire. I don’t think the fact you lay your head somewhere makes you a better steward of a resource

You gotta get better neighbors. Here is your official invitation to move to Iowa!

I’m making the assumption that there should be inherent benefits to where a person chooses to make their home. I’m making this assumption regardless of a persons character. There are laws to deal with scumbags.

As to the resource, I honestly can’t speak to that, as I haven’t seen or read about such impact (positive or negative). And while I see your point that you should likely have better habitat and resource managers, there will likely be more hunters, so likely something else will need to give (#of tags, tighter restrictions on non-resident non-land owners, etc)

And, personally (selfishly, perhaps), I am growing to hold the opinion of Lee Lakowski, that I’d rather have a neighbor that does a legal deer drive that lasts for only 2 weeks—and will kill an occasional 3yo (like happened yesterday with my neighbor)—compared to the hunting pressure of all neighbors targeting the same monster from Oct through Jan 10.

Bottomline for me and the state I choose to live and hunt, the habitat and resource is so fragile, (less than 7% timber, little public ground) that I don’t want to risk the possible impact on the resource and hunting that opening the floodgates to nonresident land owners might cause.


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[cbw]

Another thought… if you lived in Iowa like Hillrunner and I, would you want it to change?


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[cbw]

So, Jan 2-4, I’m doing my first out of state hunt to Tennessee to hunt ducks on the Mississippi River. And I’ve put my hat into the draw for an Idaho elk tag next year, so I reserve the right to charge my views in the future. :-)


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[Howboutthemdawgs]

Another thought… if you lived in Iowa like Hillrunner and I, would you want it to change?


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Great question. I honestly don’t know because I’m the outside looking in. I guess I would still appreciate the guy who invests in my state in a substantial manor. Not the guy who buys 10 acres so he game the system. But if I’m a resident and a guy comes in from Georgia and spends 2.5 mil to buy 300 next to me, I’m going to run with the assumption he’s on the same page with goals (I could obviously be wrong but it seems unlikely.) Conversely if farmer Johnson lets 5 guys from town come hunt cause his paw grew up with his paw, I have no idea what to expect but my mind would usually go to the worse case.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

So, Jan 2-4, I’m doing my first out of state hunt to Tennessee to hunt ducks on the Mississippi River. And I’ve put my hat into the draw for an Idaho elk tag next year, so I reserve the right to charge my views in the future. :-)


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