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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 26, 2010 10:00:06 GMT -5
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Post by boonechaser on Nov 26, 2010 11:48:16 GMT -5
"Few hunter's want to shoot female deer???" Can we take a poll on this??? Just about everyone I hunt with take's at least 1 doe per year, most more. Very one sided article I think. Funny how they interveiw a guy that hasn't shot a doe in his 25 year's of hunting or something like that. Another poll?? How many guy's have never shot a doe since they started hunting??? That guy is in the minority I would think. Funny how they just happened to interview him?  CAN YOU SAY AGENDA!!!! Boy's and girl's you had better put your 2 cent's in to DNR, NRC, LEGISLATOR'S OR I'M AFRAID THE NEW PROPOSAL WILL BE WORSE THAN THE LAST!!!!! |
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Post by firstwd on Nov 26, 2010 12:13:57 GMT -5
I read part of the article, phone wouldn't let me navigate through it all, and some of the comments. I am going to have to wait until I get to work tomorrow and use my computer to respond....
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Post by old3arrows on Nov 26, 2010 12:19:15 GMT -5
Yep, pretty lop-sided! Once again bad reporting/lazy reporters will have the majority of their readers believing one thing when the truth is something else. If you want more does killed you have to do something with the license structure, which has to go through the legislature, and increase hunter access to private ground. If farmers want more deer killed from crop damage then they need to let more guys hunt their ground. IMHO the hunters helping farmers program is a failure because no land owners or farmers are participating. We as hunters have done our part by registering! Car/deer collisions is more of an educational problem than deer population problem. People just need to be more aware and slow down! I harp continually during late October thru November to relatives and friends that do not hunt that deer are going to be moving from the rut and hunting pressure so be watchful and be careful!
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Post by INDeerhunter on Nov 26, 2010 12:43:45 GMT -5
This article is extremely lopsided, and the research behind his ideals is weak ! One guy never has killed a doe so the rest of us dont ? I rarely kill a buck ! I am a deer hunter and I take atleast 1 or 2 doe a year and have taken only 3 bucks my entire 20 years of hunting !
So I guess if this guy would have interviewed me then hunters wouldnt be killing bucks then ? This is just another slap in the face of the average hunter, and now even more non hunters are going to have the wrong idea about our huntin traditions !
What a joke this guy is by writing such a misinformed article IMO ! I agree totally with "OLD3ARROWS" the hunters helping farmers program is a joke I have registered time and time again and havent had the first response !
The DNR need to focus on getting more farmers to allow more hunters on their properties to thin the herd and save their crops ! And they need to get more access in hunting season on these properties instead of mid summer when its hot as heck, and expect guys to want to mess with killing a deer and cutting it up, while sweating and fighting the skeeters !
Depredation tags need to be filled for farmers in deer season ! There would be more guys willing to legally hunt instead of going out and shooting a deer in the heat IMHO ! I know there is more to depredation tags than that, but I know alot of guys that every summer they take a few deer from a farm in Elizabeth and thats their main complaint is the farmer wont allow them to come back and hunt during the regular season, they want them to shoot as many deer as possible, even leave them lay, and shoot them at night with these depredation permits and then thats the end of it til next summer !
More farmers and hunters would beneift and more doe will be killed if hunters can access the private land needing thinned during deer season ! And less car/deer collisons would occur if ppl paid more attention and we had better access to these areas where they occur the most, and the more heavily deer populated areas !
Anyway thats just my opinion, and shorting the gun season wouldnt have made guys shoot more doe, and it wouldnt have helped the herd at all, I know guys that said if the rules proposed passed they would let every doe they seen pass, IMO no one would have won in the situation !
I just hope that the new proposals will take in consideration the wants and needs of the DNR, Farmers, and HUNTERS ! This time around !!!!
Good Luck to all of you the rest of the season ! ANd be safe out there ! Also dont stand by and let these new proposals come in without voicing your opinions on them, in the end we the hunters are the ones that know alot of what needs to be done to manage the deer herd than alot of non hunters would, but if we dont stand up and let our voices be heard then we will also be the ones that suffer from it !
~ INDeerhunter ~
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Post by trophyhunter1 on Nov 26, 2010 12:47:20 GMT -5
that really makes us hunters look like crap the the non hunting public eyes..
wonder if the dnr called this `reporter`up and sent him on mission.
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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 26, 2010 13:06:35 GMT -5
Well, at least he didn't say that the legislature stopped the proposal instead of the huge outcry of the Indiana deer hunters....
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Post by TagTeamHunter on Nov 26, 2010 14:02:11 GMT -5
I saw reading the article and thinking I would love to have a few does walk under my stand.
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Post by tony on Nov 26, 2010 15:47:36 GMT -5
Talk about the media skewing public opinion! Sounds to me like Gene Hopkins has his own personal reporter to make sure his opinion is heard regardless ofwhat the majority of hunter's think.
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Post by firstwd on Nov 26, 2010 17:21:36 GMT -5
I just read the news ticker on Fox, missed the story.
I'm sorry guys, I can't take any more of this. I will be sending emails to all of the local news stations calling out the DNR and their information people, and the legislators behind this less pool. It is time the truth of this scam become public record.
If my mouth or my passion turns a bad light on any other hunter, I apologize now, but I will sign anything I say and include a disclaimer that it is my opinion.
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Post by dadfsr on Nov 26, 2010 19:36:02 GMT -5
Anybody got the contact info for this Dan McFeely??
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Post by HuntMeister on Nov 26, 2010 20:12:31 GMT -5
I should have known this was going to be another misinformed, lopsided report...
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Post by dadfsr on Nov 26, 2010 20:14:20 GMT -5
I just got on the Indy Star's webpage and read the articles comment section there. It sounds like for the most part the comments there are right in line with the general overall opinions that were voiced on here.
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Nov 26, 2010 20:28:49 GMT -5
Anybody got the contact info for this Dan McFeely?? dan.mcfeely@indystar.com |
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Post by dadfsr on Nov 26, 2010 20:46:45 GMT -5
Anybody got the contact info for this Dan McFeely?? dan.mcfeely@indystar.com Thanks! I had already found the email and just got through sending him an email pointing most of his very obvious omissions along with a suggestion to actually hang around a deer check station for a few hours and get some real interviews. |
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Post by boonechaser on Nov 26, 2010 21:02:07 GMT -5
Boy did'nt have any idea the can of worm's he opened up with that article. (But he's about to find out.) Don't give him any mercy.
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Post by jjas on Nov 26, 2010 21:52:13 GMT -5
Maybe someone @ the Indianapolis Star should have asked how the 67K does killed last year during hunting season died.....
This is just round two of the "I'm mad because the proposal didn't go through" and the new agenda is apparently trying to push EAB on everyone.
I guess record kills, a 1/1 buck/doe kill ratio and a one buck rule didn't result in a booner behind every tree so now EAB is the newest agenda to appease the hornographers and try to keep the masses from killing "their" trophy bucks.
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Post by oneshot on Nov 27, 2010 6:50:44 GMT -5
About what I would have expected from the Libitard Star.
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Post by Decatur on Nov 27, 2010 7:18:49 GMT -5
Emailed
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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 27, 2010 7:34:27 GMT -5
About what I would have expected from the Libitard Star. The Associated Press picked it up and it is word for word printed in the Evansville Courier and Press this morning. It is a full court press by the folks in Indy.... Write the editors of these papers with your rebutal... |
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CAN YOU SAY AGENDA!!!! Boy's and girl's you had better put your 2 cent's in to DNR, NRC, LEGISLATOR'S OR I'M AFRAID THE NEW PROPOSAL WILL BE WORSE THAN THE LAST!!!!!
