Des Moines Iowa hunters harvested a record 182,000 deer during the 2003-04 Iowa deer season, breaking the previous record of 140,000 set the previous season. The increase in the deer harvest was overwhelmingly due to hunters taking antlerless deer. Hunte

“Our hunters really responded to our call to harvest more does,” said Richard Bishop, chief of the DNR’s wildlife bureau. “This is the first time we’ve ever had more does harvested than bucks.” The DNR had 53,000 antlerless-only deer permits available and sold nearly all of them. Deer hunters will have the opportunity to harvest […]

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