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Do you think your dnr is doing the wright thing in your state?

I am from wisconsin and the dnr is just crazy. We had a bad year realy bad not many people were seeing deer and the numbers are realy low for deer being killed. Now they say that this is a good thing and that this is how they think it should be.

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Deffenitly not doing there job In Minnesota!!![:@]

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All in all I think Kentucky manages their hunters and deer herd rather well.

They offer a 2-3 week rifle season peak rut to keep all the gun hunters happy, yet limit us to one buck per season, and give bowhunters Sept-Jan to hunt. They seem to know how to keep all parties happy and still keep deer numbers in check. I am satisfied, and honestly, don't want to see KY change back to a two buck state. I like how one buck tag pressures people to hold off for bigger deer, however selfish that may be.

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Illinois is going to be lucky to still have a DNR with our governor running amok. I think they did ok when they had funding and reasonable input on wildlife conservation and themeans to regulate it. Who knows where it will be in 5yrs.

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The Illinois DNR is a JOKE

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I am very pleased with the DNR in Kentucky and the one buck limit, like Trevor. It seems to be working.

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I agree but I would like to see them tweak the start of gun season back off of the second Saturday.This week was a week too early imo and would like to see it hit the middle of November every year.

They even allow crossbows to be used but there season starts a little later and they do an awesome job getting the youth involved.They are FREE untill they turn 12,then they are required to have an orange card and liscenses.


AND,from what I have seen and heard,it seems Ky does a better job with it's money than anyone.No tax dollars(unless donated) either,all their money comes from us,the hunters through our tags and liscenses.Atleast that is the way I understand it.

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The DNR has done a great job here in KY...I would hate to see it go 2 buck. Deer would get over pressured even more than they are now. However, I would like to see 2 weeks maximum on rifle season. Too many peopel get trigger happy around here and go John Wayne on everything.

I have passed a few bucks, because I know there are bigger bucks in the area. With that said, the ones that I passed up are hopefully going to larger next year....but, I am kinda of regretting passing one up.

The DNR has been good about the CWD as well.

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It is 2 weeks,just 3 weekends,unless you are counting the free youth weekend and the youth only weekend along with muzzleloader week and early weekend.Yeah,maybe a little too much for firarm season[8D] BUT we get 4 1/2 months.:D

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LOL exactly. There are alot of youth seasons, plus. ML seasons only eqaute to 1-2 weeks and they fall in Oct and Dec, not peak month. crossbow hunters get alot of time now too, almost all of Oct, and alot of Nov and Dec.

I agree, I would like to see gun season fall a week or two later...but gun hunters sure wouldn't, which is what I was saying about keeping them happy as well as bowhunters happy.

I find it crazy that I can hit the woods any day between Sept 62008 and Jan 18 2009 and bowhunt for deer, too cool!:D

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I was referring to this year,it should have fallen a week later imo and I think even the gun hunters would have liked it better.


They have started the using the second Saturday as the start date and this year,it was the 8th,I just feel that pressured the deer before the rut even kicked in good. I could be wrong though.[:-]

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ah, I gotcha.I see what you are sayin now, and agree. The rifles started barking half a week to a week before I saw what I thought to be the peak of action for my woods. I agree.

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Here in California, I think they do a decent job, faced with the fact the State of California is OUT of money again...and here we have all of the ANTI Everythings and Enviro wackos roaming around here...

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Ohio has done good and bad things. I believe the one buck per year rule is definitely a good thing. The one thing that has bothered me and the guy that started me out hunting is Ohio's new deer permits. Where I live in NW Ohio woods are small and counties are mainly composed of flat agricultural land where in southeastern Ohio you have smaller fields and larger wood lots. In NW Ohio deer numbers are much smaller than those that come out of the southern section of Zone A for Ohio. One problem is the push my auto insurance companies to lower populations so there are fewer accidents that they have to dish out money for. They incorporated counties with very low deer numbers with other counties that have large deer populations and also large interstates and highways with higher deer populations so when they counties with higher numbers have a lot of accidents then we get bumped up as well even though we still do not have the deer herds to go along with this. My neighbor who started me out and I have both brought our concerns to the DNR but nothing is yet to be done and i doubt anything every will. At the time we refuse to kill does on our property because we are seeing a decline in the amount of deer. There is still plenty of food resources for the deer and still enough cover just to deer killed each year. when there are not enough deer produced to replace those killed the year before there is a decline and that is what i have seen this year.

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Honestly, I hate to say it, but the Michigan DNR is bordering on negligence! A total ban on baiting--for hunting or recreational viewing--ofdeer in the lower part of the Stateafter ONE CAPTIVE deer tested positive for CWD is ridiculous. This decision was made rather hastily with little regard for businesses, which havesuffered immensely as a result of this ban. One local business alone estimated its lost $750,000 due to the ban. The banhas the potential to effectevery Michiganresident who possibly faces a rise in insurance premiums due to the potentialincrease in deer related auto accidents, all because of one farm raised deer.

Subsequently, over 1,000 deer have been tested, and not one deer in the wild herd has tested positive. Obviously, CWD is nothing to play around with, and measures need to be taken to protect Michigan’s deer herd; however, those measures should be based on sound scientific data and research, rather than impulses with little evidence to support them.

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Everyone,

I'd like to be the first to post from Indiana. While I think that overall our DNR is doing a good job, there are some changes I'd like to see to improve our BUCK hunting. First of all, they implemented a one buck per season rule a few years ago which I consider a positive. But I would like to see our firearms season cut back to one week, the week of thanksgiving. I know that won't sit well with most gun-hunters but really there is no reason we shouldn't be producing the class of animal that Illinois and Ohio are producing on a more consistant basis. IMO it is mainly because our firearms seasons are to long. This includes muzzleloading season. Between the two seasons, they are 32 days long. You take Wisconsin, which has nearly three times the deer we have, yet their rifle season is only nine days. I don't think the genetics are any better in Illinois, it's just that they have two, three day gun seasons that are split, and as far as I know, neither fall during the rut. But as I said in the beginning of my post, they, the DNR,are doing a good job. The things I mentioned are just what I'd like to see happen to improve things.

Blessings.....Pastorjim

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Eastern North Carolina: The DNR isa great bunch of guys but the dog hunters run all over them for lack of legislation. Thedog hunterstrample everyone's rights: landowners, other hunters and even motorists endangered by illegal use of roads. This issue overshadows all other herd/hunting aspects. Until we fix dog hunting, there is no point to attempting any other kind of herd management.

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In Virginia its hit or miss. Some areas are done really well and others are just a complete disaster. In northern virginia and a couple counties down south there getting it right with the Earn a Buck program to try and lower the population of does. In shenandoah county they put in antler resticitons which is something i would love to see state wide, except for youth hunters. And the dog hunting in the central and southern portion of the state has gotten out of control. There has been plenty of arguing on this site to show the lines have been drawn on that subject. I personally am all for limitations being imposed on dog hunters, there getting out of control and the state needs to impose some laws soon in order to keep them from tresspassing at free will like they do now. Bottom line if VA imposed antler restrictions and put some limitations on Dog hunters so they would stay on there own land for once, i strongly beleive VA has the potential to be a big buck state, we shoot big ones right now but i can only imagine what we could do.

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No.

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Boy, aint this the truth![:-]

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NO!NO! NO! The game wardens are a GREAT bunch of guys but I am starting to wander if the ones making the regs. have ever hunted or at least hunted in the last 10 yrs? I will have to at least speak on "MY" opinion for the eastern section of the state. If you have a season this long and especially gun season ( and by the way I gun hunt plenty also) you have got to have a better restriction on bucks. I mean come on...gun hunt from Oct. till Jan.1 with a "4" buck, no size,antler etc. restriction?? You gotta be kiddin. I have lived here all my life and I still think it is ridiculous. They gave us an unlimited number of doe kills but not protecting the small bucks? Now I realize big bucks are not for everyone but our does outnumber the bucks at least 4+ to 1. The biggest problem I have around here concerning the dog clubs is that the tracts of land are so split up they are not large enough to keep the dogs and the deer they are running on the property they have permission tohunt on. So they end up crossing the road and getting on someone elses land where they do not have permission to be. It is not the dogs fault but the owner's.

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It looks as If Minnesota Is one of the few states that the locals are very upset with there DNR.

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Yes and no. Some things I like, some I despise. Probably overall, slightly below average. But that is better than being WELL below average that they were.

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Absolutly not.

Too many complaints to list...You guessed it, im from NY![8D]

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[:'(]Is my vote

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Other than religion (I'm assuming people view Sunday as Church day), what is your reasoning for this?

I personally find this rule absurd, what logic stands behind it? Why not no hunting on Saturdays, or Tuesdays? Heck, alot of guys work 6 days a week, and Sunday is their only day off.

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I hate to break it to you but what you are charged for licenses and tags is a tax levied on you by the government of Kentucky. Sure they don't call it a tax to keep you happy, but it is a tax, that you choose to pay I might add. Licensing and tags are no different then the fees and such you pay at the BMV, and we all know that everyone hates buying their plates, but yet we are all estatic about the opportunity to pay more fees and taxes to our states in order to hunt.

Just a little rant.

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But why Sunday? Why not no Tuesday hunting? MANY states allow Sunday hunting and are in ship shape...like I said, guys who work like amule their whole life, may only have Sunday off as their only day off during the week (several of my extended family members included)...I just don't understand how a herd benefits from not being hunted one day a week? Especially Sundays. If it is about alleviating pressure, why not No Saturday hunting? This should really knock down the hunting pressure.

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I'm with Trev 100% on this one.

If MN outlawed sunday hunting, I'd be screwed. For some people who work, or go to school, it'd be hell.

Not everybody can hunt during the weekdays:eek:

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Oh, and in Virginia i would also like to see the ban on sunday hunting lifted so people can actually use there whole weekend.

If VA put antler restrictions in and limitations on dog hunting, along with getting rid of the sunday hunting ban, i would say there doing an amazing job, but until then there falling short IMO.

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I think NC does a decent job. Id like to see it go to EAB or one buck only.

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KY. is awesome!!!!!!

I need some help, I can't remember KY. being a two buck state.[&o]

I did not hunt for a few years in the "90"s. Was it a two buck state for a short time then?[&:]

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I agree; it makes no sense to make hunting on Sunday illegal. They tried that here in Michigan, but it got smacked down! They even made it illegal to hunt on lands of another person on Sunday, and that got smacked down.

Personally, I just don't understand the logic, and I think Trevor makes a very valid point, "why Sunday, why not Tuesday or some other day?"

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So that is 4/4 voting NO, so far from MN...

Hmmm...[:'(]

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I'd have to ask my Dad, but Im fairly certain back when he hunted it was a 2 buck state...maybe I was confused. He quit hunting late 80s though, so It would be awhile ago. Ive been hunting since 1999 or 2000, and as you know...1 buck state since I have been around.