RE: Indiana gun season
The only real effect OBR has had was to shift the harvest even more toward the gun seasons and increase poaching, ask IDNR if you don't believe it, I have. All through the bow season I heard more slug guns going off in rapid succession than I did during last years firearms season, and those a-holes weren't hunting squirrels or target practicing. It started the year they instituted OBR and it's gotten worse ever since. The real answer to a quality hunting experience is the same as it always has been, do your part to help IDNR control the herd population and sex ratio instead of only shooting bucks, and more importantly get off your butt and hunt smarter instead of wishing for some "magic" solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Indiana has some huge bucks out there, but you have to go further from your truck than most to get them. Deer carts exist for a reason.