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Post by tynimiller on Feb 12, 2024 10:19:45 GMT -5
Got 'er done! Basically I agreed with all proposals except eliminating the "late special antlerless season". I see no reason to eliminate it. Numbers of deer killed during a given year can be controlled with bag limits. It doesn't need to be controlled by time of the year. The week between Christmas and New Years is an off time for many. Lots of folks are off work and all the kids are out of school. There a is very few school competing activities going on then too. It's a perfect time to take the kids hunting.. especially if they got a new deer rifle for Christmas, Not to mention it is a small faucet to open and close depending on harvest needs without drastic changes elsewhere.
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Post by tynimiller on Feb 8, 2024 9:22:31 GMT -5
I've never been big into shed hunting...but Lord knows like mushroom hunting folks seem to think my place is public property lol
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Post by tynimiller on Feb 6, 2024 12:50:00 GMT -5
So you knowingly killed deer and didn’t tag due to coyotes getting them? If you know with out doubt that you actually killed them not the coyotes them I say your obligated IMO you definitely wouldn’t want to remove antlers with CO permission…. I'd argue antlered or antlerless I'm calling it in and reporting. However I'm instructed to act I'm then doing. I'm never not doing anything, I tagged a spoiled doe one time.
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Post by tynimiller on Feb 6, 2024 12:29:01 GMT -5
JMO but I think the DNR are being proactive for when CWD is found in deer herd here. (Think some are over thinking this), I have shot deer that were left overnight and coyote's beat me to them. (I never tagged those deer, or reported them.) Think this verbiage is being added for diseased deer. JMO So you knowingly killed deer and didn’t tag due to coyotes getting them? It is my understanding not tagging these deer is illegal. If someone shoots a buck and due to let's say a gut shot, long track, overnight and part of the next day before recovered. Coyotes and stomach matter spoiled everything. It would be illegal to posses or take the antlers of that animal without a legal tag being placed upon and 99.9% of hunters are going to tag it. An anterless deer changes nothing.
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Post by tynimiller on Feb 5, 2024 7:45:10 GMT -5
Worded loosely just like our mineral usage law.....
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Post by tynimiller on Feb 1, 2024 9:36:24 GMT -5
Yup and I already informed every rep on the committees and ones I had contacts with how ignorant this is and an overstep of the DNR process put in place. Let the NRC and DNR process work.
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Post by tynimiller on Feb 1, 2024 9:02:46 GMT -5
They want us to stop the bill?? LOL Down here in SW Indiana we have a lot of bobcats, almost as many as coyotes. The squirrels have taking a large hit & I would bet the rabbit & turkeys have been hit hard too. I don't know because I don't hunt those. Let the hunting begin is what I say. No where near as many bobcats as you do coyotes. Not even close. Plenty of rabbits and turkeys in southern indiana. I hunt lawrence and orange. Definitely not a loss of squirrel either. It's not the cats. It's the habitat and as far as turkeys, look to nest robbing predators and habitat Span this and your other above post are spot on. Science backs the concepts you are espousing and truthfully while I'm all for allowing the IDNR to create somekind of trapping season for bobcats, I also don't think folks understand truthfully what governs the vast majority of animal populations is rarely if ever predator related to the degreet they apply to them. Habitat loss - and NO for those reading this, I'm not talking just development into homes, industries or recreational ground...loss of habitat is also thanks to the maturation of woods into good habitat deserts when it comes to what they provide all kinds of animals. Populations shift dramatically...as timber turns into massive park like woods your bunny population will go down as the food and cover leaves the forest floor...with them fewer predators of them will desire to live in the area....likewise amount of deer which can be supported changes and the time of year where they may still use it shifts....BUT some types of insects and bats and squirrels (tree dependent) will see their population in the area increase. Hunters today are simply growing way too one track minded I fear in that they think only a bullet or broadhead impact animal populations....and some add in a bulldozer. Otherwise they fail to see one of the most pivotal parts of it all...
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Post by tynimiller on Feb 1, 2024 8:50:30 GMT -5
I haven't received it either, the software sending takes time to send such a massive email file - as all the notices say if you don't receive it within today or tomorrow reach out to the contact provided in the postings.
As for drones I'm staunchly against legalizing them in a blanket fashion. I'd prefer to see a license to do so, even if minimum with hefty hefty fines if connected to locating deer to hunt and not just recover. Make it a law the company with the license cannot disclose the location of any animal still alive to the hunter - only game which have their head down and no noticeable sign of life. I understand such a law would be tough to write wording wise, but I know of many that desire to use drones to scout marshes/swamps quickly and use that intel to hunt or not...it's even more sick to me than cell cameras which I personally cannot swallow to use on my private land.
Truthfully though as Indiana deer hunters have shown yearly with the likes of mineral usage, whether the IC code or laws say one thing, they'll do another if they get just a millimeter of a "gray area" in the code. I suspect drones will get legalized...and the use of them will get abused arguably in the "fair chase" aspect of hunting...I'll just quietly go over in the corner and sip my morning coffee and get called the old man who times have passed by already LOL
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Post by tynimiller on Nov 28, 2023 7:23:05 GMT -5
Congrats Huntnfreak ! That's a fat fingered buck as an old timer used to call em - carries his mass clear up his fingers he'd say LOL
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Post by tynimiller on Nov 27, 2023 8:24:29 GMT -5
The shift of localized herds, especially on small parcels can be massively changed by just one property use change - often times things balance back out over time, but could some of the impact be the neighboring hunting - absolutely. If before it was a sanctuary from hunting, even bad habitat sanctuaries attract deer.
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Post by tynimiller on Nov 21, 2023 14:59:01 GMT -5
I bet SOLID money the ICO had suspicion in that area illegal activity was occurring, and as a good officer he will of course check any and all along the way but likely was looking for one specific person or situation.
ICOs are short handed and to be walking around on opening morning I suspect would not be done without a precise reason being associated with such an action.
AND any ICO worth their badge, isn't going to divulge or give that away to someone, as for all they know that would tip another off.
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Post by tynimiller on Nov 21, 2023 11:28:07 GMT -5
With Indiana's OBR, that doesn't leave much leeway for any management. I have on on cam for the past 2, maybe 3 years a spike buck. Each year the spikes are bigger, IIRC I have a pic of him this year and the spikes are 2x as tall as the ears. SO, if I take that one out, then I'm done for the year. With a small property that cannot hold deer on it 24/7/365 what is the point? The neighbors aren't with the program, so seeing one that is older than 2.5-3.5 YO is a miracle. I have passed probably 10-15 bucks this year so far. Some probably are duplicate sightings but none are bigger than 8 points. The neighbor shot a big bodied 6 point on Sunday afternoon that I most likely passed Sunday morning. About 5-6 years ago I found a gut shot 10 point that wasn't more than 1.5 years old. Still had a short nose, small body and the rack was all within his ears. I would have loved to see that one make it to 6 years old. That is a negative (with reason) of the OBR. I have a couple buddies if I decide to kill some of my yearling bucks, I'd trust late season after most neighbors are done to go in on my property with some young ones as the targets and likely will do this.
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Post by tynimiller on Nov 21, 2023 8:22:21 GMT -5
IMHO, this year's proclaimed inferior buck could be next year's stud buck and this year's stud could be looking not so studly next year. Just too many variables in a bucks life / environment year to year to say for certain what buck is or will be inferior. Over the years it becomes quite apparent by a bucks' third age whether they are going to become something a hunter personally would desire. MSU biologists, numerous hunters who observe far more than us, and even in the captive industry...that third year tells a ton of the deer's future - of course nothing is guaranteed but typically speaking that is when not only skeletal framing but majority of antler genetics are starting to have been displayed. Now I'll shoot a five year old buck regardless of the headgear but I personally have far less excitement for a five year old that told me when he was three he wasn't becoming anything special. I actually am in a place this year where I have my one buck that is 7 1/2 and then the gap to the next regulars falls to a couple suspected 4 year olds that truthfully the one is a short tined genetics buck that will NEVER be anything P&Y while the other is a main frame big eight with a nub right side G4 and could be special with his frame. When I get back from Thanksgiving and we are into December I'm going to do card pulls and likely might switch gears to removing does and some of the young bucks actually purely from a buck numbers stance - give a few of the three year olds a few more years and maybe even protect the one four year old (at least from me or Pops shooting them) and instead fill the freezer and eliminate some buck numbers from the lower age brackets.
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Post by tynimiller on Nov 21, 2023 8:10:48 GMT -5
I personally won't step into the cell cams, BUT trespassing issues for me too have me considering it solely for that purpose and not deer intel.
If I did it would either be Reconyx or WiseEye
WiseEye would likely get my money only because I've been blessed to witness and hear how incredible the family (Monk family) that runs it is and the committment they have for incredible service when needed. You won't speak to any CS third party, you often times will get set up with one of the founders themselves or family.
CS isn't needed much for them, but when you do need it for any reason WiseEye QUICKLY becomes the best I hear from multiple sources I would trust to watch my son.
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Post by tynimiller on Nov 21, 2023 8:07:45 GMT -5
I'll just say the actions and thinkings of many that hit the woods....is the precise reason why I despise when folks expect me to "blindly support all people who find themselves hunting in the woods or fields".
Nope. Hard nope for me. I'll say no more.
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Post by tynimiller on Nov 16, 2023 8:31:32 GMT -5
Concerning those who chose NOT to wear a modern harness, to me it's a disrespect to loved ones. If one can afford a vehicle to get to the woods, a gun, and a stand, then they can figure out how to pay for proper safety gear. THIS x 1,000,000
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Post by tynimiller on Nov 16, 2023 8:27:18 GMT -5
I'll add that also the DNR NRC or whomever would need to institute it consider making it on such hunts illegal to take part unless proper safety equipment is being used. Probably a good thing BUT can that lead to the DNR extending that requirement statewide in the future? You know some of us don’t like being told what to do by the government Honestly, while it might cause some to think of it, instituting that on private land would never get support - public MAYBE...but I still think the support wouldn't exist. Now state ran park hunts I think absolutely those are the only times I would personally think support such a rule.
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Post by tynimiller on Nov 14, 2023 10:14:35 GMT -5
I just hope .. He has a speedy and complete recovery AND He has great insurance to cover it AND He learned a valuable lesson I'll add that also the DNR NRC or whomever would need to institute it consider making it on such hunts illegal to take part unless proper safety equipment is being used.
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Post by tynimiller on Nov 13, 2023 16:32:57 GMT -5
I pray for cold weather (under 40) because the one farm we get permission till gun season we always get green light to come back out quick - the grandson and his friend don't hunt in weather that is cold LOL
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Post by tynimiller on Nov 9, 2023 7:53:14 GMT -5
If I am hunting my land, my father's or someone who has been gracious enough to let me hunt that I respect - I will ALWAYS hunt the wind.
I want my presence and footprint left behind to be as minimal as possible, the number one way to ruin even the best properties is to make your presence known and felt.
Now if I was a gun hunter that shot with ease over hundred yards....I'd perhaps throw caution to the wind more on public or piece of ground I don't care about. But I'm neither a sniper or one to ever have the mindset of not caring.
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