ND Deer Lottery Proposal

[gillraker]

In Wyoming you have to prove that so many animals are using your land to qualify for a landowner tag.

In Minnesota you have to let other people hunt on your property to get a landowner tag.

Both seem reasonable to me.

And both will never be a requirement in ND to get a gratis(free) tag.

 

[Sluggo]

How about limiting gratis tags to land owners whose land actually has habitat for deer. The core issue still come down to the fact that we have less habitat and are going to continue to have less deer and less deer tags.

Question from a non-hunter. If there is no deer habitat on their land and they get a gratis tag and they have to hunt on their own land, what does it matter?

 

[Duckslayer100]

Question from a non-hunter. If there is no deer habitat on their land and they get a gratis tag and they have to hunt on their own land, what does it matter?

It matters because there is a finite amount of tags per unit. So if gratis gobbles up tags, there can effectively be no remaining tags for us lowly public land hunters.

And yes -- the irony is that gratis hunters are SUPPOSED to hunt their own land tied to that gratis tag. "Supposed to" being the operative phrase.

 

[eyexer]

In Wyoming you have to prove that so many animals are using your land to qualify for a landowner tag.

In Minnesota you have to let other people hunt on your property to get a landowner tag.

Both seem reasonable to me.

Why would Minnesotans have to do that when they sell em over the counter to anybody essentially?

 

[eyexer]

Question from a non-hunter. If there is no deer habitat on their land and they get a gratis tag and they have to hunt on their own land, what does it matter?

Pretty low percentage actually take the animal on their land

 

[Walleye_Chaser]

Pretty low percentage actually take the animal on their land

This really needs to be reported to the local game warden if people know this is happening!!

 

[Iwhackwheat]

Pretty low percentage actually take the animal on their land

I wonder if GnF has stats on violations by gratis holders? Or do you think they just let them off when they see the tag?

 

[NDSportsman]

Extremely hard to enforce. You'd have to catch someone actually in the act of shooting the animal. I've reported it several times and not much they can do without actual video proof basically.

 

[Walleye_Chaser]

I suppose they could just say they were coyote hunting....

 

[Eatsleeptrap]

Question from a non-hunter. If there is no deer habitat on their land and they get a gratis tag and they have to hunt on their own land, what does it matter?

I could put 5 names on here right now, farmers with gratis tags, all within 10 miles of our farmstead that hardly ever hunt their own land the first two weekends of season. Game and Fish enforcement will do nothing about it. That is from experience, but both of the calls I made were before everyone had a camera in their pocket and could take pictures as evidence. Still, never going to waste the energy to call RAP ever again.
Eliminate gratis tags completely. My second choice would be 1/3 of available tags to gratis and cannot receive a gratis 2 years in a row. I really, really like the one deer tag with hunters choice of season idea.

 

[Kurtr]

They enforce the land owner stuff down here pretty good. Know a bunch of people who have got pinched

 

[eyexer]

All they have to say is I shot it on my land but this is where it ended up. Warden gets in his truck and leaves.