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Post by featherduster on Apr 12, 2012 10:56:38 GMT -5
The state of Indiana has decided to hold a deer reduction hunt on the CRANE DEPOT naval installation after concerns regarding the deer over browsing and destroying seeding trees planted by personnel. There will be a first time ever archery season as well as a gun season,each hunter may take 2 deer.
In 1960 almost 1,600 deer were harvested in the state of Indiana.
December 1961 The state of Indiana reported that 3 deer were taken by 64 archery hunters during the first ever one day archery deer reduction hunt held that year at the Crane Depot. Hunters reported 859 deer sightings during the one day hunt,there was no report of the kill from the gun hunt.
This information was from the Outdoor Indiana pulications from 1961.
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 12, 2012 11:10:33 GMT -5
Interesting material. Some folks do not know how far we have come and really do not appreciate what he DNR has done. My first year of deer hunting was in 1968 and I saw a total of 6 deer all season - gun and archery combined. Btw - I wrote some articles for that publication once upon a time. Woody the Outdoor Writer..
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Post by lugnutz on Apr 13, 2012 23:04:33 GMT -5
If the hunters back then had access to the equipment that we have today, you could possibly multiply that harvest by 4 or 5 times at the VERY least.....Seems like some forget how far mankind has came since the 60's....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2012 20:22:49 GMT -5
even with the advances in technology lug you cant kill that much of the reasource if the recource isnt there. wasnt near as many deer then as there is now.
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Post by copper1 on Apr 18, 2012 20:00:43 GMT -5
People don't realize just how FEW deer there were back then. I am 41 and can remember back in the mid 70s being a kid and dad rushing home from work , throwing the family in the car and going 5 miles down the road because there were 2 deer in the field! They just were not around in numbers. Deer hunting has definitely come a long way in Indiana, love it or hate it
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Post by lugnutz on Apr 18, 2012 21:54:52 GMT -5
People don't realize just how FEW deer there were back then. I am 41 and can remember back in the mid 70s being a kid and dad rushing home from work , throwing the family in the car and going 5 miles down the road because there were 2 deer in the field! They just were not around in numbers. Deer hunting has definitely come a long way in Indiana, love it or hate it And i'm 36, i can remember 250fps compounds that were considered fast and deadly, when muzzy's only shot patch and rounds, and when gun season consisted of smooth bores, and remington sluggers as being the method of choice. Making a 100 yard shot on a deer was a heck of a shot.........now days we got 360fps bows, drop away rest, expandables.....Nobody now uses's the #11 cap, its all inlines, shooting 2inch groups at 200 yards. Now days a 100 yard shot with a slug gun is no big deal to anyone. Shooting saboted slugs............I didn't even go and mention the addition of xbows, and PCR's..............We sure have evolved in the hunting world, the deer on the other hand hasn't.
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Post by billybobteeth on Apr 19, 2012 6:11:52 GMT -5
even with the advances in technology lug you cant kill that much of the reasource if the recource isnt there. wasnt near as many deer then as there is now. I am 52 and hunted deer here for 37 years . And you as a hunter today can kill game animals to the very last one easly with the shear manpower out there and weapons we have .So at some point there is a tipping point in every animal population and taking it past that point because we are still killing them because of the " they have to still be out there because we are killing them" mentality is stupid at best.
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Post by coyote6974 on May 4, 2012 20:21:56 GMT -5
I'm 56 years old, and have lived in a small rural town between Indpls and Lafayette my entire life. I never saw a live deer in Indiana until the fall of 1975 while riding to the Inpls bus station to depart for basic training. We saw the deer just south of 71st street where 65 splits to 465 west toward the airport. After that it seemed deer began to show up all over the place. We were seeing them about every time we'd go rabbit hunting. I didn't start deer hunting though until about 1980 when my dad took to a place he was hunting near the Shades. I got a shot at a small buck that day but missed it. My step brother killed it when it crossed a field and walked under his stand. I was using a Remington 870 with a front bead, shooting Remington sluggers.
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