It was recently brought to my attention that my home state is trying to change the hunting regulations to encourage more doe kills. Here is the link to the proposed changes. http://www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/2362.htm In summary right now you can hunt antlered and/or antlerless deer for 32 days between both shotgun and muzzleloader season. Under the proposed changes you would only be able to hunt antlered deer for 18 days. A 9 day shotgun season and a 9 day muzzleloader season. You would then be able to hunt does during a 2 day October gun hunt and a Dec. 25th- Jan. 1st gun hunt. Here is the link to the current game laws http://www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/files...egulations.pdf

Right now we get 32 days to hunt any deer with a firearm. Under the proposed changes we would get only 28 days of firearms hunting with 18 of those allowing us to hunt bucks. At the same time I do not see any changes to the current archery season limits that allow for 89 days to hunt either bucks or does with archery equipment.

Do these rule changes sound fair? I know many of you out there live in states that have very different hunting regulations, but do these rule changes sound like they are going to achieve the desired result of killing more does? If not what regulations do you think would work better?