What about Iowa?

[Shedrock]

I'm just buying another point this year. Good luck to you guys hunting this season.

[BUCKY]

You guys are just bad hunters. Lee and Tiffany and the Kisky's and their movie star friends all shoot 170-200 class deer.  

i let a 160 class buck walk by me opening day last year, only 18 yards away.  It was 85 degrees, I had a slipped disc and three displaced ribs and did not think that I was in shape to get it out.  The next week I let him walk again, my daughter called and said that she just had her baby.  Two weeks later I was feeling like I could hunt again, just to find a compound hunter looking for the big deer with with his dog, gut shot. he jumped it a mile from where he shot it and lost it. That was the only big deer in my area last year. The number of truly big deer are farther apart than they were 30 years ago. Perhaps in some larger protected tracts out east the chances for the trophies are better.

[Real Buckmaster]

The DNR has butchered the deer heard. Plus charging high prices for in and out of state tags. That's Bull crap.  There is a DNR meeting Monday night about what we can do???  I will be there!!!

[bawana bowman]

You should all consider Kansas. 30,000 acres, managed for whitetail, and max of 72 hunters per year.
April was month to apply, may still be tags available. But then there is always next year!

100% chance for 135-150", and many much, much bigger.
   

[Mike Theis]

I hunted an Iowa ranch once, then tried to lease it, but the owner died of cancer, and the family sold it piecemeal. He died when we tried to draw with 2 points, and we were some of the few who couldn't get it done with 2 pts. So I sit with 3, and am going to 4, as I have another hunt planned this fall. Don't like to go the outfitter route, but they are most of whats left after either buying or leasing everything on either side of the Iowa/Missouri border. That and professional ball players buying up ranches. Seen that too. I am afraid Iowa may have peaked a few years ago, if for nothing more than current limited access reasons. It's really sad.

[Iowabowhunter]

I haven't been bow hunting for a very long time (under 10 years) and have noticed a drop in the sheer # of deer. I only hunt on a small piece of land owned by my grandpa but we usually saw at least a couple deer each sit. Now for the last fee years I can count how many times I hunted without seeing any deer at all. There are still bug bucks around, just not as many. I unfortunately have no chance of purchasing deer hunting land, here in central Iowa, just right across the street from our property, the land was selling for over $7,500/acre. Just ridiculous

[Biggie Hoffman]

That's unusual...a friend of mine just bought 300 acres for $1800 per

[Robhood23]

Last year was my first time hunting Iowa! I never got in on the good old days but my hunt down there last year was phenominal! No booners but saw deer on every sit, passed a few low end p&y bucks and ended up shooting the wrong buck in all the excitement! Compared to the hunting in MN if this is the bad years in Iowa I really missed the boat! I will be applying again and can't wait to get back down there!

[doug77]

Theirs a huge difference in the price of land in Iowa. The further you go south the less it sell's for. Some land I used to hunt north of Iowa City about 8 miles sold last year for $8,100.00 acre and now theirs a house planted in the middle of that 80 acres.

doug77