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Post by riverbandit on Feb 27, 2011 15:29:01 GMT -6
MN also allows rifles as does WI and there are plenty of areas that are just as flat as IA. How are they able to trap safely during gun season and not have any more incidents than we do?
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Post by roosterk0031 on Feb 27, 2011 15:42:07 GMT -6
Oldbuck I don't disagree with you at all, but giving in to dumbass's isn't the answer. I think teaching our kids, grandkids to respect wildlife is the answer. Those others we just have to wait till they die or can't hunt anymore.
I've done it all but with a wife & 3 kids time is limited and being restricted to a youth season, shotgun season or late muzzle loader is just silly. If they want 1,500 does killed in my county give me lots of time and plenty of method to get it done. I'll pay $75 for a doe tag I have 9-10 weekends and can use a firearm able to kill cleanly at 300 yards to fill.
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Post by steven49er on Feb 27, 2011 16:09:37 GMT -6
Dave in MN we allow rifles in about the norhtern half of the state or so.
Its a safety issue. The wide open farmland is where rifles are limited.
Anybody that says you will have less deer because of rifle season should have been up here the last several years.
We had a pile of them we are thinning them down now because they liberalized the does for a few years. We could shoot seven at one time.
I'd be more concerned about a drunk driver hitting me than getting shot by an errant bullet.
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Post by walleyehunter123 on Feb 27, 2011 17:13:40 GMT -6
rooster i hunt with my 11 yr old and i take him down to southern iowa to hunt because of the deer heard population and also because because i do not want him to hunt them the way they do up here with pickups so i just go down there when ever i get the chance with him. now for your boy on a youth tag he can hunt every season there is on that one tag that he has so if he goes during the youth seasn or late muzzel in jan. he can still hunt off that on tag but he is allowed only 1 deer so they get the time to go when its warmer out .
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Post by cody13 on Feb 27, 2011 18:34:23 GMT -6
Why does the HUNTER want to hunt with a rifle? Too make hunting easier?
A rifle just takes away from the skill of hunting. The modern muzzleloaders are similar to rifles anyway.
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Post by riverbandit on Feb 27, 2011 18:40:11 GMT -6
Careful Cody. Those are the types of comments the anti gun and anti hunting groups use.
I could argue using a bow is less skillful than using a sling shot or throwing a spear.
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Post by kyle on Feb 27, 2011 18:57:46 GMT -6
there is nothing to stop bullets. Ever hear of gravity?? ;D
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Post by cody13 on Feb 27, 2011 19:10:31 GMT -6
Dave, I dare you to argue it!!! ;D
Kyle, gravity isn't real. I haven't seen it so I don't believe its there.
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Post by riverbandit on Feb 27, 2011 19:15:51 GMT -6
That's easy Cody. It takes skill to aim and hit a target no matter what the weapon is.
IMO it takes more skill to take coon with footholds than 220s. Should 220s be banned?
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Post by roosterk0031 on Feb 27, 2011 19:25:26 GMT -6
I could argue that all weapons but rifles should be illegal as inhumane. Rifle's kill more effective so all other shouldn't be legal.
The whole thread is about doe harvesting, if the DNR really want's 1000 killed in a particular county sell 1000 tags and let us kill them. Don't sell a $25 tag only good for 4 days, if the weathers bad, or my 11 yo's sick wasted tag.
Spread out the number of deer hunters in the field at any one time way less likely for accidents to happen. Shotgun season is what it is and accidents will continue, so I stay home.
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Post by riverbandit on Feb 27, 2011 19:29:46 GMT -6
I though the title of the thread was "Deer with a rifle in IA" not the number of Doe tags issued.
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Post by iayogi17 on Feb 27, 2011 19:38:13 GMT -6
The DNR wanted the deer numbers reduced not killed. Just wait until you see next years deer harvest quota. lets just say I'm not going out and buying any new deer gun or bow
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Post by roosterk0031 on Feb 27, 2011 19:41:41 GMT -6
Yep,your right, it is deer hunting with rifles, I morphed it in my head to doe's only.
I don't want rifle's allowed during any current muzzleloader or shotgun seasons.
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Post by cody13 on Feb 27, 2011 20:03:17 GMT -6
Dave, I wish 220s were easier for me!!!
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Post by dennisj on Feb 28, 2011 8:03:51 GMT -6
My fear of allowing rifles for all deer hunting in IA is I see too many idiots now that take their pheasant gun, throw in a few cheep foster slugs, never sight it in& think they can hit a running deer at 2-300yds! What kind of fool shooting would they try with a long range rifles!!!
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