ORIGINAL: Robert L E

The main reason there are more big deer shot now is................................................ .................there are more deer now. Duh.

Having more deer also allows the current luxury of passing on small bucks because you can shoot a doe. For many years in Iowa there were no antlerless tags and only very few bucks only tags. If you passed on that small buck you were unlikely to get another opportunity to HUNT for years to come. Many hunters did not even SEE a deer while hunting in the 1950's. My father grew up on a farm in Southern Iowa and NEVER saw a deer on the old family place. I think that it would be unusual to not see deer every week there now.

I agree that most book deer in Iowa never go on the books. No one wants to screw up their honey hole with publicity.

Bob

Keep the high fenced deer off of the books. Do not buy products from people who use high fence hunting to promote those products. CWD would not even exist in many places were it not for farm raised deer. There could be other pathogens waiting out there, lets us not help them spread as has been done with CWD.

Sport is what you do when you are not keeping score.