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Post by indianahick on Dec 15, 2009 14:12:22 GMT -5
Extending to the end of the late season is fine with me. Trying to draw a bow with enough cloths on to stay warm (?), well at least not totally freeze , is usually difficult. Not to mention that you now have to shoot around all of those extra layers on your bow arm. Archery is to me a warmer weather sport. Definitely not the end all that some of those television shows would like you to believe.
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Post by Decatur on Dec 15, 2009 14:32:23 GMT -5
I agree Hick!
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Post by featherduster on Dec 15, 2009 18:47:57 GMT -5
I like it just the way it is, after all how many deer do you need to kill.
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Post by Decatur on Dec 15, 2009 19:06:06 GMT -5
Well, if we don't kill more, the DNR will lose their control over the Indiana's deer herd, and it will be given to the politicians to control. God forbid that ever happens, because after ten years, we'll have to go to a zoo to see a deer!
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Post by huntingman on Dec 15, 2009 19:11:52 GMT -5
yeah i think they should extend all seasons we got to many deer. a way to tell i have heard is if there are no low hanging branches about deers height as far as i no my woods dont have none. My point we got to mnay deer i live in St. Joe so we can shoot 9 deer.
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Post by featherduster on Dec 15, 2009 19:56:31 GMT -5
Got news for you Decatur that has already happened when the insurance industry got tired of car deer accidents.The shame of that is so many drunk drivers that gets involved in an accident are quick to say they ran off the road to avoid a deer. If it was up to some people they would hunt them right up to and even during the time does are giving birth.
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Post by Decatur on Dec 15, 2009 20:11:05 GMT -5
Very true Feather, but it could get much worse I'm afraid.
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Post by crazybuck on Dec 15, 2009 20:36:53 GMT -5
I like it the way it is.
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Post by UrbanArcher82 on Dec 15, 2009 21:25:34 GMT -5
Bow season (early archery) is for the people that work hard to get good wood a bow by shooting all summer and getting good with it, in my opinion it takes a much better hunter to use a bow then gun and if you want to hunt october and the best time of the rut then buy a bow and quiet trying to get them to allow guns and crossbow(unless handicapped or old) in october.....any old shmo can kill a deer with a gun.......bow takes dedication and skill to get good with.So no it should not be aloud for people that dont work hard all summer and dedicate to practicing to use a muzzleloader in october.
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Post by huntingman on Dec 15, 2009 21:36:41 GMT -5
well some people dont have time or people to take them they should allow muzzelloaders
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Post by ridgerunner on Dec 15, 2009 21:44:25 GMT -5
We just need to become better hunters.Leave it alone. Ditto.
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Post by gobblerstopper on Dec 15, 2009 23:10:55 GMT -5
Renegade, do you turkey hunt?
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Post by Indyhunter on Dec 16, 2009 1:10:33 GMT -5
Renegade, do you turkey hunt? I think I know where you are going with this, and when I read it I immediately wanted to respond. Then I looked at his profile, and it shows him as 14 years old. He only knows what he's read online and what his family (or whoever he hunts with) has mentioned around him. Hopefully experience and 'edumacation' will take over. I will say I appreciate that he is a hunter and the future of keeping the tradition alive. I just hope that he is taught to keep an open mind "for the good of the cause" (bit of 'The Patriot' for those of you that are fans). And for whats it's worth, with the deer season my son and I have had I would vote for extending ML season an additional month from now! Okay maybe not, but it's been the worst season i've had in several years and I feel bad for Indy Jr. with the way things have worked out.
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Post by UrbanArcher82 on Dec 16, 2009 7:16:28 GMT -5
As a matter of fact ive killed several (3) and my first was when i was 11 so yeah ik what you were trying to imply but i know how to hunt hard....
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Post by oldhoyt on Dec 16, 2009 7:38:14 GMT -5
I think a major factor contributing to the 80% antlerless ML harvest is that a high percentage of these hunters have already shot their buck, in archery or firearms season.
Thinking about it, I would not mind limiting "real" traditional guns (smoothbore flintlocks). That would give me an excuse to get another gun. Never a bad thing.
As far as season length and number of deer I shoot, as long as the total of all seasons goes a few weeks, I see very little correlation. I'd still shoot 3-4 deer. Adding a month to the seasons won't change the number of deer I eat in a year.
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Post by jabba on Dec 16, 2009 7:43:10 GMT -5
I wouldn't kill more deer in mor etime. What I'd do is be more choosy about the ones I kill. And I'd spread my hunting time out over longer period of time, which would help me out with the wife. She HATES deer season, and having me gone 5 or 6 weekends in a row, plus the days in the middle of the week that I hunt too. As it is... I HATE it when I aquiess to NOT hunting when I COULD be hunting, and I always feel like I HAVE to be in the woods WHENEVER I can... in order to squeeze it in the allotted time frame. I have a 3 year old... and the time will come soon when he comes with me hunting, and some of the pressure will be off Mom. But it'd still be nice to have the season be a little less compressed.
Jabba
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Post by gobblerstopper on Dec 16, 2009 10:04:23 GMT -5
As a matter of fact ive killed several (3) and my first was when i was 11 so yeah ik what you were trying to imply but i know how to hunt hard.... I'm not trying to imply that you do not hunt hard. I know very few hunters that do not hunt hard. I am just glad to hear that you shot all three of your turkeys with a bow. Because in my mind, shooting a turkey with a gun is pretty simple. I mean, you are throwing a pattern 30" wide at a 20lb birds head usually within 30 yards. At an animial that doesn't have a sense of smell enough to pick you up outside of 3 feet. Just like deer hunting, shooting a turkey with a gun is not hard, it is getting them within range that counts. Add on to that getting the deer that you want to kill within range (say a mature buck) and it makes it a little harder.
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Post by vectrix on Dec 16, 2009 10:51:45 GMT -5
C'mon guys lets be honest, it's not about gun or bow it's about length of season. Indiana allows 32 days of some sort of firearms season. Military refuge hunts and state park hunts. Archery is in counting urban a total of around 106 days. If I have a bad season I can't complain that I didnt have enough time to harvest one, it must have been a bad year. Lets also try and count the depradation tags that are handed out during summer when countless deer including pregnant and does with newborn fawns are harvested and I think we can agree that DNR is pretty generous in length of season. By reading the posts on here and looking at the check in thread, it looks like guys are stacking up the deer. Heck, lets just combine it all and allow every weapon including centerfires starting in august to ensure everyone is happy and fills their tag.
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Post by schall53 on Dec 16, 2009 11:16:01 GMT -5
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Post by lugnutz on Dec 16, 2009 11:56:29 GMT -5
Strive to be better hunters? Heck with todays technology in every aspect of hunting, being a better hunter takes very little effort. Can you imagine what kinda critters Fred Bear or Chuck Adams would have killed with todays technology?
With the current tag system that Indiana has utilized during this OBR crap, there has been a major decline in the amount of bowhunters and or amount of deer taken during their respectable seasons. IMO, just from the archery hunters that i personally know, they aren't as willing to hunt during the Late Archery Season do to the inclement weather, and just to take a doe. And i'm the same way, aint no way i'm freezing my tail off to hunt a doe that just had 30 something days of firearm season, and hope to get one within shooting range. If you need proof of this go to any DNR hunting area and check the folks that have signed in that week.
I honestly think if the state needs more of a reduction than what hunters are currently taking, it would be an effective tool to get the numbers that they strive for. I'm not positive that mentors would be able to get the kids out to hunt in freezing weather, but i think it would be an awesome time to get the kids out and offer somesort of season for them.
Just my .02
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