would you be for???
 

any weapon any season on private property only..

I mainly bow hunt the whole season very seldom do I pick up a gun.. But if I only gun hunted and only hunted on private property it would be nice if I could hunt from opening day of "deer" season to the end of season with my rifle or shotgun..

Private or public is fine with me, just tell us what the limit is, not how to kill them!! :)

I seldom us a centerfire, prefer my flintlock, make it my choice..

I would not be in favor of that. Too many people who do nt have access to private property. I have zero problem with seasons as they are now. At least in my state, hunters have more days and more sporting arms seasons than in any tme in history. What ypu are proposing would most certainly shorten deer season in most if not all states.

Very much against. What neighbors do affect the deer on your property

Nope. Regs are usually put in place for a reason. In my native CO, when the elk are bugling they only allow "primitive weapons" such as archery and blackpowder to keep from killing too many of the breeding bulls.

Besides, some people have a loose interpretation of "private property" and don't pay attention to bounadries.

I would be against it as well. Greatly diminish the numbers of animals.

I like the way it is now. Bow season, gun season, and then muzzleloader and late season bow. The bow season is just a lot less crazy and I have shot many more deer with a bow than gun. Regular deer gun, even on my private land, often does not pan out and I have skipped it a bunch of times - neighbors bait deer off my land. Muzzleloader, since it is after the regular gun is a nice time since the peace returns, even to public land. My private land is best in early season with bow - if guns were allowed, I am fairly certain that my success would be limited by all the neighbors gun hunting over their bait piles. Having different seasons better allows for all preferences better.

I would definitely be against that. One of the worst ideas I have ever heard.

This 100% especially the last part!!!!!!

Nope.

The way it has been everywhere I have hunted, though the regs are often vastly different from one state to another, have seemed to me to be reasonable. Back in the days of "kill 'em if you can" , unregulated hunting the numbers of what we now consider to be game animals , from alligator to water fowl to bison dwindled dramatically. In some cases to extinction ... the Carrier Pigeon being one well known example.

Nope, private property or not, you don't own the deer so you don't get special rules for hunting them, the fact that you control access to the land is enough.

while do understand most of your opinions and your reasons but some of the logic is flawed... it would not shorten the season it would not put more pressure on the deer and it would not affect the herd negatively, most folks will still hunt the way they always have.. Take me for instance I would still hunt with my bow 90% of the time..

I'd be against. I like the way it is just fine.

I'd be against it as well. It may not seem like it but there are specific conservation goals behind each method of take and season. I'd keep things the way they are but thats just me.

Of course it would shorten the season. Less deer are taken in archery season then in a firearms season. If everyone could hunt with a firearm, starting when the archery season would open and hunt the same number of days that are now hunted, it would change the whole dynamics of the harvest and in order to prevent an over harvest the season would have to be shortened and a good chance of less antlerless licenses being available as well. Seasons are set using a lot of data to attempt to kill a certain amount of deer, both buck and doe, what you want would be a shot in the dark and irresponsible for a game agency to do after years of data and research pointing the direction to take. Setting seasons on whims is a real bad idea No flawed reasoning here. The private property thing is a kick in the teeth to those who don't have access yet buy the same license at the same price. It is a bad idea all the way around. Perhaps somewhere there s a state where tis could be done due, to too few hunters to harvest the nuber of der that should be removed but I can assure you in my state it would be a disaster of the highest proportion. As a good friend of mine was fond of saying,"if the Delaware bay was in Pennsylvania, it would be a biological desert", pounded to death.

Happy thanksgiving.....

Same to you Ojibwa.

I would be for it. Then again, I'd just like to be able to use a rifle here in Eastern Iowa. I buy a certain amount of tags, what does it matter how they are filled? If the herd can't handle that many being harvested, cut down on the amount of tags sold.

But I'm an odd hunter. I'm not in it for the sport, or the "joy of hunting" or any of that. Don't care to shoot a big buck over a doe, ect. I'm in it for the meat. That's it.

Yep, and every tag they cut would be one less someone else would get. Another good reason to oppose it.

Not neccessarily, oldtimr. I have 2 bow tags and 3 shotgun tags because i'm hedging my bets on being able to get 3 or 4 deer in my freezer. I might get another landowner's shotgun tag, just in case I cannot get one with a bow. If i was able to use a rifle, I'd only need 3 or 4 tags, not 5 or 6. then those other tags could go to someone else.

Move back to Michigan!!!
You can use your bow to hunt deer as long as you have the proper tags from Oct 1st to the end of the special private property doe reduction season Jan 1st.
As a bonus if you own land to hunt on in my area you can buy 5 doe tags per day over the counter.

:D Al

I thought about it but my little southern belle wife couldn't handle it..lol

I have actually been looking at land in the Northern LP and it's relatively cheap as long as you stay away from the NW part.... ie TC north..

Then you will have to buy a NR tags.
Didn't shop well for a wife. Mine would follow me thru heaven to hell to be with me and I her pretty much.

I looked around the area east of T/C After talking to realtors and others decided I didn't need that crap during deer season.

I bought near Rapid River UP. Very seldom ever see another hunter that isn't a guest at my place and those are few and far in between.

Fire arm season closed Sunday, UP reports success rate is the lowest it has ever been, down 37%. Well Da with 30 inches of snow just before the season opened at my place we didn't go. A friend in Bessemer who lives there told me 52 inches day before the season opened.

:D Al

I like the UP I remember when you could buy good land up there for $500 an acre , my cousin bought 500ac back in the late 70s for $400 an acres..but those days are long gone.. I also remember when the avg snow fall up there was between 230" to 300" a year...

a lot of the properties I have looked at up there have seasonal rds that are all but impassible during winter..

I have heard the biggest issue in the LP was trespassing, back when I was a teen if it wasn't posted you could hunt it, now it seems like even if it is posted people "think" they can still hunt it..

Yup so bold they trespass all the time. My brother sick with cancer last year didn't hunt. In Oct this year he went to the back of his woods and found a blind with a pad lock on the door. I would have just hooked on it and drug it to the ditch.
He called the law and they took it, probably for them selves.
He is near Leroy south of Cadillac on 131.

I always hunted the UP during fire arm deer season and the wife never went in the woods here at home. After my hunting partner passed away I never spent the whole two weeks in the UP. I would hunt in the back yard. Had a huge trespassing problem. After I told a guy I caught twice I said no more warnings. I started pressing charges and they don't trespass any more.
we have lake frontage IN THE up we paid 15.00 a foot.
Not to hard to get land all woods for 500 an acre in the UP these days. Land value there like here dropped 40% in 2008 when the ship hit the fan.

:D Al

wonder how much land you need to buy to get it fo $500 an acre, I need to do a little research.. I am guessing you would be better off not to deal with a Realtor and go straight to the land owner , Realtors have done more to drive up prices then anything all over the country..

I know because I used to be one..lol:bash:

Hard to find for sale by owner long distance. We were dealing with Everett reality in Manistique, they would have a property that was about what we were looking for call us to let us know and leave the information in a mail box they had by their door. I would get out of work early Sat morning drive home wake the wife and she would drive the 6 hours to get there. We would pick up the information and drive to the wild land property look it over and make a offer if we liked it.
We happened down a off the beaten track road and saw a 4x8 sign for sale by owner to get what we finally bought. Would never have saw the sign if we had not been looking at a property for the second time and deciding to go to Escanaba for supper.

A guy I worked with bout property on a lake east of Manistique, just a lot for 18 dollars a foot.


:D Al

I wouldn't want this.

Saw some studies once that said to have gun season, especially rifles, outside the rut helps to promote the size of bucks. Antler size dropped seriously in states that had firearms legal in the rut.