Missouri Deer Harvest!

[biglakeba$$]

Here is our annual report for example.
http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/wildlife/deer/reports/harvest/deerharvest_2013.pdf

 

[MoBuckChaser]

Here is our annual report for example.
http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/wildlife/deer/reports/harvest/deerharvest_2013.pdf

What a joke of a waste of money!

 

[j-bird]

Talk about numbers overload!

If I did this right - here is the report from IN for 2013 - like I said some areas are still hunting.

http://www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/files/fw-2013deerseasonsummary.pdf

 

[biglakeba$$]

Thats a useful and visually understandable report to look at.

Its probably good that the MN DNR is tracking wide arrays of different data sets, but good grief... How about some simple graphs like the Indiana one.

 

[wiscwhip]

That MN report is quite impressive!:rolleyes: 44 pages even! Issue is, it's 41 pages of fluff and 3 pages of relevant data.

 

[sandbur]

I'm disappointed with this thread.

I opened it thinking Mo would be smiling with a 170 inch buck on the ground!

 

[MoBuckChaser]

I'm disappointed with this thread.

I opened it thinking Mo would be smiling with a 170 inch buck on the ground!

I have been smiling without a buck on the ground! :D

Just wanted to show how simple the recording of a deer harvest can be explained to the masses.

 

[bwoods11]

Like I said before....register by county?

Why do we not do that in MN?

So simple. Both Iowa and Missouri register (detailed) by county.

 

[sandbur]

Like I said before....register by county?

Why do we not do that in MN?

So simple. Both Iowa and Missouri register (detailed) by county.

That makes too much sense for our DNR to do it. How could they mess the data up then?

 

[SD51555]

I just got an education on my hometown hunting zone. In 285 this year, they offered 1100 doe permits in the lottery. In 2013, 589 deer were harvested. Seems like an eradication effort to me. Or perhaps it's already shot out and now it's just a revenue raiser to see if people will keep buying licenses.

 

[sandbur]

I just got an education on my hometown hunting zone. In 285 this year, they offered 1100 doe permits in the lottery. In 2013, 589 deer were harvested. Seems like an eradication effort to me. Or perhaps it's already shot out and now it's just a revenue raiser to see if people will keep buying licenses.

That can easily be corrected by a good manager and an eraser.

 

[Jameson]

I just got an education on my hometown hunting zone. In 285 this year, they offered 1100 doe permits in the lottery. In 2013, 589 deer were harvested. Seems like an eradication effort to me. Or perhaps it's already shot out and now it's just a revenue raiser to see if people will keep buying licenses.

That is my old zone. I use to hunt near Lester Prairie. One year it was Managed, still don't think it has ever recovered from that. Seems to me I remember doe permits usually being in the 300-600 range most years. Seems a little non-conservative in this year of conservative regulations.

 

[MoBuckChaser]

I just got an education on my hometown hunting zone. In 285 this year, they offered 1100 doe permits in the lottery. In 2013, 589 deer were harvested. Seems like an eradication effort to me. Or perhaps it's already shot out and now it's just a revenue raiser to see if people will keep buying licenses.

Sounds like no management to me.

They do not want deer in this state, plain and simple. How many other zones did this happen in I wonder!

 

[sandbur]

That is my old zone. I use to hunt near Lester Prairie. One year it was Managed, still don't think it has ever recovered from that. Seems to me I remember doe permits usually being in the 300-600 range most years. Seems a little non-conservative in this year of conservative regulations.

Do hunters in that zone still complain about only being able to shoot one deer?

We have had multiple tags (221, 222)for so long that hunters complain with a Hunter's Choice tag (one deer) for 2014.

Where I hunt up in zone 1, two tags is seldom mentioned any more. People are Ok with the one tag idea.