Holy Smoke! If you need to thin the herd by all means do so but allowing spotlighting is a disaster waiting to happen, and it won't have to wait long. I also can't see paying people to shoot something on their own land. If you want to let landowners allow someone else to hunt on their land without a permit and the problem is that bad, I can go for that.

I am from Nebraska and just let you guys know most of the farmer and ranchers are form the big city areas and all they care about is getting rich. I will admit that we do have a huge deer herd but it isn't this bad. There are alot of hunters that are upset about this and if they pass this we all know there goes our good deer hunting and before you know it there will be very few deer. With that with them allowing spot lights and poaching bad things will happen such as people just shooting at eyes and end up shooting a couw or some other livestock.

Foolish..so many other ways..like a DNR website where I can sign up to hunt and pay $100-150 for 2-4 tags my contact info is given to a rancher/farmer who then contacts me and I go hunt their property over the weekend..(shoot I would even request 1 weeks leave) The DNR can give them half the money..all game taken must be reported..then they can keep tabs on when to stop the free for all without ruining a natural resource..then I would donate half the meat to a local feed the hungry org...and eat the rest with friends and family...to friggin easy ...blasted politicians ...did they really attend a school of higher education?

To no one's surprise, I suppose, I'll take the contrarian position to the sentiments in this thread. Assuming that there really is a big deer problem with lots of anermules eating up farms and damaging property, letting landowners gun them down is not such a bad idea.

I'm not sure that jacklighting is the way to go, though.

Maybe the bill should be term-limited too. After all if successful it will really cut down the deer pop. After that G&F should have no trouble managing the balance.

Just a thought.

Another thought: I wish we had that deer crowding problem in Arizona.

Wow! The foolishness of bureaucracy will never cease to amaze me. There are homeless shelters and a lack of food in sooo many places. You have to have some regulation.

Dang. They're not messing around.

Yikes.... Wonder what he was smokin? Reallity will set in when the casualties start comin in.

The spotlighting scenerios should be left up to the landowner and his kin not to everyone as stated before.

If the landowners can kill the necessary does during the year, it does a couple of things for them.

1. It thins the doe herd down, reduces crop damage and takes the browsing pressure off the native plants.

2. It allows the landowners (or the outfitters who lease the land) to concentrate strictly on trophy buck hunting in the fall.

That way the pay hunters can concentrate on killing their trophies and the locals can do without. It's a pay to play world guys.

As you might tell by my name i live in nebraska and one morning we drove onto a corn feild and bumped at least 100 deer off it. We are doing somethings besides mass excecution, we are reducing youth permits to $5 and you get 1 doe and 1 either sex you can get 2 of those and as many does as you want but that bill is WAY OUT OF HAND!!!!

I cannot think of a more dangerous situation to be allowed to happen is to allow shooting at night!

THAT IS INSANE!

SOMEBODY IS GOING TO GET KILLED, YOU JUST WATCH!

Shooting at eyeballs? You know how many accidents poachers mistaken reflectors on cars and Law Enforcement Unit light bar for eyeballs!

A fella was smoking a cigarette at night and poachers let the bush up where he was at and the glow of the cigarette looked like reflecting eyes and they shot. Lucky for him they were poor shooters!

That is plain suicide! I am all for damage control if it is needed but not that way. The only way that I would implement damage control is with a "Shoot only what you can eat clause" to make the practice more sensible and make people aware that it is not a "Target Practice" type of management. Someone needs to make this right or it could be very disasterous to our future hunting rights and our heritige.

The main concern seems to be hunting at night. That is dangerous, but the worse is that it can become an habit. Once some people get the hang of it, they will keep doing it.
Can´t the state congresses modify the hunting rules each year whitout passing a whole law, so that this is just temporary?
And like Mike said, I´d like to have your problems here.

By the way I do my part with this issue by harvesting at least 3 does every year and only one or two bucks. I love my sausage!

WOW, being from Nebraska.I like the idea of giving us more time and deer to shoot. Not to fond of the spot lighting though. The area i hunt is loaded with deer. most of them does so I dont see a problem with more hunting or having land owners give permission to hunters and not have to buy a permit for every deer. I know plenty of people that could use the meat. But as someone already said, lot of the guys are greedy. Few areas are owned by a guy in the city who doesnt hunt but puts up no hunting signs all over his place, and i never see anyone hunt it. If you got a deer problem look me up. I'd be happy to take my little brothers out there and get a few deer.

It sounds like people want to buy land in Neb. Then they can seed it to bring in the deer and them all you guys can come kill as many deer as you want. Lets let somebody else pay for everything! As long as it isn't your alfalfa the deer are eating or your wife who hits the deer all is beautiful. Non landowners love to see deer. Hey can you guys feed my dog and buy me a 3 1/2 in 12 gauge, and pay for my shells, and I need more decoys, and......

sounds like a joke to me,,,that would be right up a farmers alley to be able to shoot deer at night to thin them out,in this state when they say they are ruin feilds and stuff like that the state will go in and give the farmer corn to replace what a deer ate in there feed piles,or they use to any how,i thuink they should make it a law that if the deer are doing damage they should have to let hunters in to help out and any hunter not just a friend,, around here you got a better chance of getting hit by lighting,then getting a farmer to let you in and hunt,,and any one that says that aint true is a lier,when the winters get bad and all the deer bunch up on some bodys land,the game and fish i s suspose to have a list of names where you can go to shoot a doe,, and every time i tried to find that out, there wasnt a place to be had,but i know a guy on the game and fish ,before he worked for them that told me, they allways tell him where to go like that,,,but they aint told me where to go yet,any time ive asked its allways we dont knowof any body ....its all a crock the game and fish is run by farmers around here just check there back grounds its all in who ya are,and if the farmers dont have to let in any body that askes id say let the deer ruin any thing they got,in the end they all get there check in the mail any how all ya got to do is go online and see who gets what money gave to them,theres farmers in this state that gets over a million dollors a year handed back to them and i know it for a fact and so do theynot only that its against the law to hunt over a feed pile but they do it here all the time and the game and fish dont do a thing about it i know some body that says he shoots a five x five every year like that but thats a farmer any body else would be aressted for it soon as i find the address ill put it on here and yopu all can look at it it shows eveyr state in the country and every county ,see whos getting all the money in your area

type that in and see your sate and county,it will suprise you

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So, the only way he touched me, and I can go deer hunting this summer, but I think there is anything wrong, because people hunting trophies, leaving corpses everywhere. I also believe that the number of deer will be reduced, although it is the legal issue and beyond the boundaries of each country will not leave any deer is killed, the other countries population decline.
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