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Originally posted by bendable:
Another reason to up the annual limit in Iowa, there are about 30,000 too many here.


I wonder if insurance companies help keep the state hunting limits high.

The more deer damage = the higher they can raise their rates. ?

I never hit a deer when I lived in MO. Moved to Iowa and hit two in back to back years, I've started hunting Iowa deer and have now got them 2:1 with 4 confirmed gun kills to their 2 Chevy incapacitations which were both patched up in dry dock.

Half an hour ago the car in front of us on our suburban residential street had to stop for 4 does running across the street while another buck and doe were staring at a house's light up reindeer in their front yard.

I don't understand Iowa's deer hunting laws, its some dumb balancing act between the bow lobby wanting all the deer poon tang during the rut and insurance and ag lobby wanting party hunters to push the deer out of the couple acres of woods left in Iowa in the following two weeks to "waste the MFers." It sounds like Chiraq or North St. Louis every year in the woods.

That said, there aren't that many deer in Iowa statewide, but where there are trees, there are ALOT of them. Missouri almost harvests the entire Iowa deer population (estimated at 400,000) every year with their 300,000 to Iowa's roughly 100,000 harvest (down this year due to blue tongue).

Good lord. I try to slow down when the road gets narrow with brush and deer all over the place. My guess is people were smarter they would slow down like when they see geese wanting to cross the road, even though deer don't "seem" to want to cross the road, but maybe the solution would be the same. But geese crossing roads are isolated occasions in urban areas, but deer are everywhere on country highways for long distances. As far as I know, I don't know anyone who never hit a deer. My daughter hit a deer in my wife's SUV, and a replacement front end cowling assembly was not longer available from the factory, so I hot-stapled it together and filled it in as best I could. I had to replace some mounting hardware underneath as well. What a pita deer are at night on the highways.

Once during a Saturday morning Motorcycle ride has a frisky squirrel pulled the same stunt going back and forth several times across the road trying to deceide which way it wanted to go.. It was able to finally make safe into the ditch. ...... Sort of funny as it was happening...... drill sgt.