DES MOINES – Heading in to the final weeks of Iowa 2014 deer hunting season, hunters are on pace to harvest an estimated 100,000 deer, which would be similar to 2013.
The reported harvest was trailing 2013 totals until hunters reported a 40 percent increase during the second weekend of the nine-day second shotgun deer season, pushing the second season harvest three percent higher than 2013, but 35 percent lower than the peak of 2006.
Harvest for the year to date is 4,300 more deer than the same time last year, led by an 11 percent increase in the buck harvest. The doe harvest is down 1 percent which is the result of regulations changes.
The late muzzleloader season is Dec. 22 to Jan. 10, 2015, which is the final opportunity to hunt deer this year, after the late January antlerless deer season was eliminated.
A new rule change allows Iowa residents the option of using a crossbow during the late muzzleloader deer season, in addition to a regular bow, muzzleloader or handgun as a method of take.
Iowa’s archery deer season reopened Dec. 22 after closing for the two shotgun seasons. The archery season is open through Jan. 10, 2015.
I just read about a Mapleton woman dying in a car wreck because a deer crashed through the front windshield and out the back spinning her into a utility pole on Highway 169. One theory is distressed deer fleeing from hunters take unnecessary risks crossing highways, but of course the flipside theory is that less deer due to hunters = less accidents.
You have that all wrong peter, the less hunting we do the more deer there are which means more accidents and more deer that destroy crops.
So the second part of my last sentence was correct. You shouldn’t just skim the great writings of Philosophus…you should read every word verbatim. 🙂 ho ho ho, and away we go…
klu klux klan, river that dam, stan the man, ploo plux plan, shiver that scam, diane the woe man.
(all this extra space should be used right?) ha ha ha , ho ho ho, and away we go. 🙂
You get on these rants that make no sense whatsoever so sometimes I just skip over some things that you say. Flip flopping like that is something liberals do on a daily basis ya know.
Peter, are you OK? Seriously, you are making very little sense today. But please, continue.
Yes I’m okay. I was in Starbucks typing on my new HP bluetooth mini keyboard, paired with my Android phone, and it was fun to type on. I made my point to Maybe, but had a lot of extra characters, so I just let it rip with some word salad. Geez, I thought it was obvious that I was just playing around. I suppose in Iowa, everyone is hyper vigilant to want to stick someone on a mental ward, strip them of their rights, and inject them with a needle. I forgot the modus operandi there