It's pretty hard to tell with this weather we're having but Summers losing it's grip and it will soon be fall. Which means deer season will soon be upon us and that means it's time for the 2nd annual iowasportsman.com deer contest.

From the IDNR

Iowa’s harvest of antlerless deer will remain a focus of the
2007-2008 hunting season. The Natural Resource Commission approved final
rules for resident hunters at its June 14 meeting in Marion.

From the IDNR

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is seeking public review of
new rules to govern the Help Us Stop Hunger (HUSH) deer donation
program. HUSH encourages hunters to shoot more deer and donate them for
Iowa’s needy.

From the IDNR

DES MOINES - Iowa deer hunters donated a record 6,820 deer harvested
during the last hunting season, a nearly 7 percent increase from the
previous year.

By Joe Wilkinson
Iowa Department of Natural Resources

Face to face with the big buck, I could see it’s massive antlers
inches away; main beams as big around as my wrists...

From the IDNR

BOONE - Iowa hunters reported 150,552 deer harvested during the 2006-07 hunting seasons, with the most deer taken from Clayton County - 7,389, and the least from Calhoun County - 159. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has posted the results of the reported deer harvest by season, sex, and county at www.iowadnr.gov.

A friend set me this and I just had to share. Click Here To See Video!

With some of the posts recently about guys getting three big bucks this year, I thought I would talk about my triple.

Started off opening morning of the early muzzie season missing a big buck...blew an easy shot. That night I went back out to see what I could find. Had a doe in a picked corn field that I thought I would be easy pickings and fill my doe tag. Lined up the shot (about 50 yds) pulled the trigger and off she went. That's when I noticed the limb dangling in a tree about 10 yds away. Clean miss on the deer. That was the first of the triple!

Taken from an official press release of the Ia. State Conservation Commission dated 6/17/54.

The State Conservation Commission received fewer reports of car-deer accidents over the state during the first five months of 1954, a decline primarily attributed by the Commission to the recent deer season. From January to June officers reported a total of 56 deer-car accidents with estimated damages of $5,935. For the same period in 1953 the total was 99 with damages of $10,159. The total for 1953 was 273 deer killed with damage of $20,078. Last year set a record and was one reason a deer hunt was held in December in an effort to decrease accidents and forestall any human fatalities.

Taken from an official news release of the Ia. State Conservation Commission dated 1/14/54.

During the 5-day deer season, 3,795 licenses were sold and a total kill of 3,057 was made. Of the licenses sold 3,074 of the report cards were returned.
At the beginning of the year the herd was estimated at about 18,000 deer. Nearly 2/3 or 65% reported kills.