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Post by parkerbow on Feb 28, 2023 18:46:30 GMT -5
I was messing around one day in an old farm house and found some newspapers. I found this 1951 Indiana Conservationist paper about the Indiana deer season. I thought it was pretty cool and wanted to share. Hope the pics turn out okay.   |
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Post by Woody Williams on Feb 28, 2023 19:31:00 GMT -5
That’s interesting..
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Post by deadeer on Feb 28, 2023 21:15:10 GMT -5
Cool. Really came a long ways since then.
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Post by steiny on Mar 1, 2023 13:19:23 GMT -5
Very neat, thanks for sharing.
My first season hunting was 73'. Saw a grand total of (7) deer (no bucks) the entire two week firearms season and we hunted quite a bit.
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on Mar 1, 2023 14:46:33 GMT -5
Great newspaper find. I started in 1982 season on my parents 32 acres. Didn't hunt much since I was busy acquiring my BSEE degree. Poor and study busy. Didn't see a deer. My 1st buck was 1985.
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Post by parkerbow on Mar 1, 2023 19:47:00 GMT -5
Great newspaper find. I started in 1982 season on my parents 32 acres. Didn't hunt much since I was busy acquiring my BSEE degree. Poor and study busy. Didn't see a deer. My 1st buck was 1985. That is the same year I started was in 1982. I thought it was cool since that was 72 years ago and the 1st actual deer season in Indiana. History of white-tailed deer in Indiana 1893: Last reported wild deer killed in Knox County. 1934-1942: 296 deer purchased for release from Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. 1943: Deer population estimated at 900 deer. 1951: First deer season in 58 years—three days in November. (13 percent success rate.) 1953-1955: 111 deer released throughout the state, with last releases in Sullivan and Ripley counties. 1956: Deer trapping and relocation program began with 500 deer relocated. 1975: Deer harvest near 9,000. 1985: Deer harvest exceeds 32,000. And now we have poeple that gripe about the deer herd. Just be glad you were not living in 1893 to 1950 when there was no deer season.  |
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Post by welder on Mar 1, 2023 19:57:13 GMT -5
My Grandpa, that lived in the house I live in (Clay county) told me that one summer he counted and recounted his hogs for a week or so because he was seeing "pig tracks" in the wet spots of his field. Finally,he saw a deer and that is what was making "pig tracks". NOBODY in the neighborhood believed it until they started seeing deer. My, how times have changed!
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Post by Woody Williams on Mar 1, 2023 22:27:12 GMT -5
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Post by chewbacca on Mar 10, 2023 13:33:24 GMT -5
So deer hunting was reintroduced in 1951 to 17 southern counties. Anybody have any idea what year deer hunting was allowed in the entire state?
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Post by jjas on Mar 10, 2023 15:28:05 GMT -5
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Post by treetop on Mar 10, 2023 17:03:24 GMT -5
So deer hunting was reintroduced in 1951 to 17 southern counties. Anybody have any idea what year deer hunting was allowed in the entire state? I started hunting deer about 1975 or 76 in adams county I know or believe I was still in high school so I would think it would of been open state wide by then. I believe it was buck only till around 80 in this county I honestly don’t remember when you could take a doe but it seems like not to long after high school you could so maybe around 84 I could be off on my dates the sun has set many times since than But I really didn’t hunt deer that much at that time you could hunt for weeks and never see a deer and I still trapped it paid good and was worth doing so I spent a good share of my time doing that |
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Post by duff on Mar 10, 2023 18:59:40 GMT -5
I started hunting Madison County when I got my drivers license in 1989. It was doe tag lotto for a couple years then they opened it up to over the counter bonus antlerless. Some counties had OTC bonus but not my home turf of the deer desert.
It was still novel to see a deer in that area through the 80s. We lived along the river so there was good habitat there. I did a lot of field walking looking for arrowheads back then too and the deer tracks always distracted me.
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