I heard from one of my hunting partners that some people are shooting doe's and just leaving them lay. It seems the DNR told them if they thin the doe population on their property that the bucks would grow bigger antlers. So at least one person that my hunting partner knew of has already shot 45 doe's on his property and is piling them up to burn them. I personally think this person should be put in jail for a very long time and lose all hunting rights forever, but that is just my personal feelings.
Doe's have meat and this person could have just delivered them to his local locker for HUSH or given them to his friends if he killed them legally of course which from what I am being told he illegally shot them.
Not to put a bad name on Hardin County, but I was told on more than one occasion to shoot all the deer I see and take the one's I wanted and leave the rest. I did not do this of course because it is unethical and illegal. I feel the DNR should have instead increased the deer tags available way over the 500 that was available. I can see why the farmers feel the way they do. In 4 days out of 10 that I actually hunted I counted over 400 deer on 10 different farms.
The DNR needs to get their heads out of the sand and let hunters take more deer and possibly extend the regular hunting seasons at least in Hardin County. I am sure their are other county's that have the same problem. You can add all the seasons you want, but if the tags are not available to take deer what good does it do to add extra seasons?
I also posted this on www.IowaDeer.com
I wanted to know what you guys think?