ORIGINAL: Buck Huntin Girl
Holy crap, hunting season could get REALLY expensive for some of you folk! LOL [&:]
Indiana checking in here, I think my husband figured it out at 16 or something like that, of course, that was counting drawn hunts in state parks and whatnot. I think the basics are, 1 buck no matter what season, that's our fairly recent OBR (one buck rule) and two antlerless. I could be off, I don't know. Unless someone asks us to get a deer for them, we only take what we need as a family of 4 (soon to be 5). 3 deer a year is plenty for us, gives us extra to make sausage, slim jims, jerky, and brats, plus the ground venison and roasts we need for our normal dinners. I know that hands down, I can take one buck and two does... no "special" tags, no drawn hunts, just basic regulations on limits. We have the one buck rule, then you can buy another license, for antlerless only, then you can buy another antlerless bonus tag.
The DNR recently enacted an emergency rule that eliminated the statewide antlerless limit , you can still only shoot one buck but you can take down as many antlerless as an individual county allows . In my county that would be 8 antlerless , then I could go to the county next door that also has an 8 limit , then the one next to that , etc. If you had the time , money , and skill you could literally take several hundred antlerless . This is exclusive of Urban Deer Zones , military reservations , park reduction hunts , etc .