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Post by whitetaildave24 on Dec 1, 2020 7:12:20 GMT -5
They could be run much better if they cared. Wouldn't be hard to assign areas or even mark exact spots for hunters. I believe there are some draw areas that have exact locations marked for drawn hunters. Would make for a much more enjoyable hunt and more productive for all involved. I respectfully dis agree. I do not want some one(manybe a non hunting person) telling me where I have to hunt or what aera. When I park hunted I scouted the park'looked at maps and tryed to decide where I wanted to be because of sign,terrain and where I thought other hunters would be or not be or how they or the terrain could push deer to me. We, my hunting partner and I did what I would call good. We hunted with muzzeloaders so meny times a second deer moved off befor we could reload but we averaged 2.5 deer per hunt over 10 hunts and some were second week hunts. This was at chain o lakes. If I was forced to hunt a given spot and knew from scouting the odds were against me even seeing a deer there I would not give up 2 vacation days to sit there knowing my chances were slim. I hunted the park as it was designed, as a REDUCTION, not a chance to kill a second or big buck. I am not going to voluntarily sit in an area I feel I can not kill deer on a park hunt. These are my opinions on extra regulations for park hunts Onebentarrow It wasn’t all that long ago when brown county used to assign you areas to hunt. If you were drawn the info included a map of the whole park showing it split into areas. Think there were five total areas people were assigned to I honestly think too many people still just hunted where they wanted anyways, so they went away from assigning areas.
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Post by ukwil on Dec 1, 2020 7:33:40 GMT -5
Versailles was the same. Red, Blue,and, Orange Zones. If guys didn't get the zone they wanted they just didn't show up.
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Post by jman46151 on Dec 1, 2020 10:12:40 GMT -5
Sounds like they need enforcement of the rules more than anything. I haven't done a park gun hunt but did the Ft. Ben archery hunt. Biggest issues I had was one guy that didn't park in the parking area and was in the spot I wanted before the time when we were supposed to leave the parking area. I had kinda figured that's where he was going so I left the parking area 2 minutes early and from the road I could see his headlamp at the spot. So I went to my second spot and had a couple of guys walk in on me. One was about 70 yards and one was 100. I didn't really mind except for the fact that they were essentially hunting the same deer travel path as me. There was another guy less than 100 yards away but he was hunting the other side of some thick stuff. Maybe they should set area and they shouldn't let them back if they don't have a medical reason for not coming to the hunt. When you sign up for the hunts you have to realize they are saturation hunts so it will be crowded. I think they want success to be below 20% or 25% before they cancel the hunt for the next year. I think that will be hard to get without hunting the properties around the parks because new deer will filter in all year around.
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Post by esshup on Dec 1, 2020 10:20:58 GMT -5
Most of the park hunts I'd hunt the other hunters. i.e. make sure I was set up to catch deer either before they made it to the other hunters, or be in a spot where I could see a LONG ways and spot deer that were being pushed or spooked away from other hunters as they got up to walk around.
My 2 most successful times to hunt in the parks is the first 1/2 hour of shooting time, or between 10am-2pm when the other hunters are getting ansy or going back to the truck for lunch.
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Post by Ahawkeye on Dec 1, 2020 10:50:36 GMT -5
I've hunted park hunts with minimal issues. I choose not to hunt them because it's very hard to predict other hunter's movements. Hard to get away from people. Now public land is a world different, I've hunted public for 30 years and can't remember any bad encounters and rarely see people while I hunt. It would probably help if they went every other year on the park hunts or allowed fewer people.
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Post by js2397 on Dec 1, 2020 11:20:10 GMT -5
I hunt them, and no doubt they achieve their goal. I just have a hard time believing that the majority of hunters have a positive experience. I describe it as Black Friday for hunters.
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Post by firstwd on Dec 1, 2020 13:46:13 GMT -5
It took Versailles 10 years or so, but they finally got hunters back to where I usually go. They told me they were trying to get more people back there, so I can't be surprised.
Brother got 3 this morning out of the 6 that came through.
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Post by onebentarrow on Dec 1, 2020 19:08:49 GMT -5
I hunt them, and no doubt they achieve their goal. I just have a hard time believing that the majority of hunters have a positive experience. I describe it as Black Friday for hunters. I have hunted park hunts and can say the only bad experience I have had was weather. 5 degrees once. Lightning and downpours another oh ya the snow storm, couldn't see 30 yards. My good experiences may be that I tried to posision my self way off the beaten path, even taking a boat accross a lake to be 1 mile from a parking area. Hunted that area 4 times saw 2 guys one time set up 600 yrds acc a weed field and blundered in to a spot and stalker while I was pulling a deer to the boat.
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Post by 76chevy on Dec 2, 2020 21:10:21 GMT -5
Ive hunted Turkey run and killed deer there in past. Not worth the hassles now.
Going back to areas, 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 would help disperse the hunters out more.
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