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Post by mark on Jul 16, 2013 10:26:13 GMT -5
PARK HUNTS ARE UP!Go to Reserved Hunt Registration! Brown County, Chain O’Lakes, Charlestown, Clifty Falls (archery), Fort Harrison (archery), Harmonie, Indiana Dunes, Lincoln, McCormick’s Creek, Ouabache, Pokagon, Potato Creek, Prophetstown, Shades, Shakamak, Spring Mill, Summit Lake, Tippecanoe, Turkey Run, Versailles, and Whitewater Memorial
Go to Reserved Hunt Registration and you will find it there 2013.
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Post by bigballer on Jul 16, 2013 11:53:07 GMT -5
Is there a place that showes the dates? I've found the registration but can't find anything about when they are. Unless i'm just not going far enough into the registration.
Thanks
BB
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Post by mark on Jul 16, 2013 12:31:43 GMT -5
I would say the frist hunt would be 18th and 19th Nov and 2nd hunt Dec 2nd and 3rd.just a guess
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Post by scrobertson on Jul 16, 2013 14:01:45 GMT -5
are you allowed to use bow at any state park you put in for? besides Fort Harrison and Clifty Falls
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Post by majyang on Jul 16, 2013 15:28:27 GMT -5
Not sure if the info is available elsewhere but to view it on the DNR's registration site, the available dates for a hunt is relative to the specific hunt that you're registering for. So in the registration process itself, once you've select (from the drop down menu) the loaction that you want to hunt, the coorisponding dates for that particular hunt can then be viewed/selected. Ft Harrison's hunt is for 18 and 19 Nov.
The park reduction hunts are designated as either Archery or Firearm so only those weapons can be used replectively.
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Post by majyang on Jul 16, 2013 15:40:30 GMT -5
If fortunate enough to be selected for one of these park hunts, how are those lucky hunters "placed" in to the woods at zero dark thirty? I would assume hunters aren't left to their own devices (that morning) to find a place to set up. I'm curious how they ensure folks are adequately set up throughout as well as in all corners of the park, since the intent is to reduce the herd. Thanks
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Post by schall53 on Jul 16, 2013 16:33:06 GMT -5
I have been to two different parks and they were about the same. You can go in and scout before the hunt and put up stands basically about anywhere you want. On the day of the hunt you have to check in at the main gate well before daylight. Legal shooting time is established I think it was 7:00 the last time I hunted. As soon as you get checked in you can go to your stand. So in short your assumption was wrong hunters ARE left to their own devices.
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Post by scott on Jul 17, 2013 6:23:13 GMT -5
Schall53 is correct. I have been on 5 of these state park hunts, and other than the areas that are marked as "safe zones" you are able to hunt anywhere in the park that you choose to set up. Legal shooting times are normally around 7:00 am (this is with the 30 min before sunrise included just like hunting anywhere else in the state) to 4:30 pm. They stop you this early because it does take quite some time to get deer out of some of the remote locations in the parks and they want you out of there by dark; also the park employees cannot leave until all hunters are accounted for (except for the ones staying in campgrounds or cabins if available).
Military hunts, I believe, you are assigned to a block of the property that you must hunt within. I'm sure they do this to keep hunters away from the military training areas. Also if I'm not mistaken they give you a time that you are supposed to check in by on the morning of the hunts. I have never been on a military hunt, this is just what I have heard.
Scott
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Post by majyang on Jul 17, 2013 10:50:17 GMT -5
Thanks schall53 and Scott for the good gouge. Should have known the 50/50/90 rule would be in play, especially since i assumed. This will be my second year attempting to get drawn so fingers crossed for this go round.
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Post by firstwd on Jul 17, 2013 11:01:07 GMT -5
If you don't have a H.E. number, get one before you apply. Applicants are divided into two pools, those with hunter ed and those without. Park hunt spots are filled from the pool of people with hunter ed first. If any openings remain, they pick from the pool without.
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Post by mkfrench on Jul 17, 2013 18:11:10 GMT -5
If fortunate enough to be selected for one of these park hunts, how are those lucky hunters "placed" in to the woods at zero dark thirty? I would assume hunters aren't left to their own devices (that morning) to find a place to set up. I'm curious how they ensure folks are adequately set up throughout as well as in all corners of the park, since the intent is to reduce the herd. Thanks You're on your own to find a place to hunt in te parks. Don't be surprised when you aren't the only one at "your"spot. If you do get "flashed" in the dark, go to plan B. Make sure you have plan A-J in place because you will be walked up on atleast once or will walk up on somebody else. Truthfully there is NO reason to crowd people on these hunts. The deer are there. By being respectful you will be safe. |
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Post by dbd870 on Jul 18, 2013 4:30:10 GMT -5
When I did Brown Co it was divided in to 7-8 zones. The first day you were to stay in your zone, the second day it was wide open.
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Post by majyang on Jul 18, 2013 8:11:13 GMT -5
If you don't have a H.E. number, get one before you apply. Applicants are divided into two pools, those with hunter ed and those without. Park hunt spots are filled from the pool of people with hunter ed first. If any openings remain, they pick from the pool without. For those archery only park hunts, does the archery certification have the same kind of play in their selection process? I'm wondering if not having an archery cert (i only have the Hunter Ed) is hurting my chances at getting selected. |
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Post by Woody Williams on Jul 18, 2013 9:24:05 GMT -5
If you don't have a H.E. number, get one before you apply. Applicants are divided into two pools, those with hunter ed and those without. Park hunt spots are filled from the pool of people with hunter ed first. If any openings remain, they pick from the pool without. For those archery only park hunts, does the archery certification have the same kind of play in their selection process? I'm wondering if not having an archery cert (i only have the Hunter Ed) is hurting my chances at getting selected. Once upon a time the Bowhunter Education Certificate was required. That was changed 6 or 7 years back to give equal standing for both Bowhunter Education and Hunter Education. Either one is good to go .. As firstfwd explained the people having a certificate of some kind get dibs... |
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Post by Woody Williams on Jul 18, 2013 9:43:33 GMT -5
If fortunate enough to be selected for one of these park hunts, how are those lucky hunters "placed" in to the woods at zero dark thirty? I would assume hunters aren't left to their own devices (that morning) to find a place to set up. I'm curious how they ensure folks are adequately set up throughout as well as in all corners of the park, since the intent is to reduce the herd. Thanks You're on your own to find a place to hunt in te parks. Don't be surprised when you aren't the only one at "your"spot. If you do get "flashed" in the dark, go to plan B. Make sure you have plan A-J in place because you will be walked up on atleast once or will walk up on somebody else. Truthfully there is NO reason to crowd people on these hunts. The deer are there. By being respectful you will be safe. That happened to me a few years back. Woodmaster and I went up the very first day we could go hang stands. Marked them with orange tape so folks could see them from a distance. The woods couldn't have been over 2 acres on the edge of a high grass CRP field overlooking a small creek. Woodmaster was at one end of the woods and I at the other. Long story short - when we went in to hunt there was a guy with a climber walking around in the woods. We explained to him that we had stands at each of the woods and anywhere he went up a tree he was cut off by one or both of us. We asked," Did you not see our stands when you scouted"? and he said he had never been in the park before, but had done his "scouting" with Google Earth! Woodmaster and I got in our stands and he wandered around a little and then went up a tree 30 yards to the side of me. He only went up about 10 feet. Woodmaster and I killed does that morning - he didn't.. |
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Post by dbd870 on Jul 19, 2013 4:29:55 GMT -5
Put in with the gal I've been helping out, been a while since I've put in for one.
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Post by majyang on Jul 19, 2013 9:23:44 GMT -5
Park Hunting Etiquette question: I hunt public land and as such am prone to seeing other hunters, not a big deal, pretty much anticipated in my hunting plans everytime i get to go out. But what about the recovery of your game during these park hunts? I've never been on one so wondering if there's that many folks out in a relatively concentrated area, is there a rule of thumb that hunters practice when retrieving their kill, i.e. if you shoot one in the morning you should wait till noon before you climb down to find it (or drag it out)? This in in context to being courteous to other hunters and not so much regarding the time you should allow for an animal to expire after the shot.
Just wondering what others practice at park hunts.
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Post by 36fan on Jul 19, 2013 10:31:44 GMT -5
Park Hunting Etiquette question: I hunt public land and as such am prone to seeing other hunters, not a big deal, pretty much anticipated in my hunting plans everytime i get to go out. But what about the recovery of your game during these park hunts? I've never been on one so wondering if there's that many folks out in a relatively concentrated area, is there a rule of thumb that hunters practice when retrieving their kill, i.e. if you shoot one in the morning you should wait till noon before you climb down to find it (or drag it out)? This in in context to being courteous to other hunters and not so much regarding the time you should allow for an animal to expire after the shot. Just wondering what others practice at park hunts. Most people typically wait a while before getting down in the hopes another one will walk by. The SP hunts I've been to, DNR helps drag out the deer w/ ATVs (after you get it to a trail) around 10:00. |
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Post by schall53 on Jul 19, 2013 12:24:31 GMT -5
If you can't see it from your stand, get down and find it and pull it to where you can watch it. Then get back in your stand and continue hunting. If you don't somebody else may claim it before you get to it.
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Post by dbd870 on Jul 20, 2013 6:19:22 GMT -5
Last 2 posts covered it well.
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