iowa to end NR party hunting

[fish_hunter]

Hearing this will be effective this June?  Going to shake things up for sure. Be nice if they extended it to residents as well if this is the case.  

[Bonefreak]

2 minutes ago, fish_hunter said:

Hearing this will be effective this June?  Going to shake things up for sure. Be nice if they extended it to residents as well if this is the case.  

What’s party hunting?  

Another term for Deer drives?

[fish_hunter]

During the first and second regular gun seasons, anyone present in the hunting party may tag a deer with a tag issued in that person’s name.

Youth hunting with a youth tag must shoot and tag their own deer regardless of the season. 

It allows people to hunt buck week without a buck tag.  

[mazzgolf]

I have never heard of this -- party hunting (?)

So, wait, you can have two people hunting - one has a buck tag, one does not. Either one can shoot a buck, and use the one person's buck tag, even if he didn't shoot it? That sounds weird.

(a) This must only be for family - even I wouldn't allow one of my friends to use my buck tag, legal or not... screw you, get your own tag!  

(b) how is this anything but "legal poaching"?

I must be misunderstanding what party hunting is.

What if I'm hunting one property (no buck tag) and my hunting partner (who has a buck tag) is hunting on a completely different property. I shoot a buck. I can tag it with my buddy's tag? Call him up - "Hey, stop hunting! I got one!" lol It must be you have to be hunting together, in the same spot (I'm guessing - still weird to me either way).

[Bucksnbows]

27 minutes ago, mazzgolf said:

I have never heard of this -- party hunting (?)

So, wait, you can have two people hunting - one has a buck tag, one does not. Either one can shoot a buck, and use the one person's buck tag, even if he didn't shoot it? That sounds weird.

(a) This must only be for family - even I wouldn't allow one of my friends to use my buck tag, legal or not... screw you, get your own tag!  

(b) how is this anything but "legal poaching"?

I must be misunderstanding what party hunting is.

What if I'm hunting one property (no buck tag) and my hunting partner (who has a buck tag) is hunting on a completely different property. I shoot a buck. I can tag it with my buddy's tag? Call him up - "Hey, stop hunting! I got one!" lol It must be you have to be hunting together, in the same spot (I'm guessing - still weird to me either way).

I know that NH does this for moose tags. The two hunters hunt together. Doesn’t matter which one shoots, but only one tag for two hunters. 

[rocky]

Maine kinda does it with moose. One person draws the tag and they can name a sub-permitee to hunt hunt with them who can also shoot the moose. One moose per tag.

[Lunatic]

1 hour ago, mazzgolf said:

I have never heard of this -- party hunting (?)

So, wait, you can have two people hunting - one has a buck tag, one does not. Either one can shoot a buck, and use the one person's buck tag, even if he didn't shoot it? That sounds weird.

(a) This must only be for family - even I wouldn't allow one of my friends to use my buck tag, legal or not... screw you, get your own tag!  

(b) how is this anything but "legal poaching"?

I must be misunderstanding what party hunting is.

What if I'm hunting one property (no buck tag) and my hunting partner (who has a buck tag) is hunting on a completely different property. I shoot a buck. I can tag it with my buddy's tag? Call him up - "Hey, stop hunting! I got one!" lol It must be you have to be hunting together, in the same spot (I'm guessing - still weird to me either way).

It is still only one tag so as long both Guys are licensed hunters I don’t see a problem with it 

Edited May 22 by Lunatic

[mazzgolf]

1 hour ago, Bucksnbows said:

I know that NH does this for moose tags. The two hunters hunt together. Doesn’t matter which one shoots, but only one tag for two hunters. 

44 minutes ago, rocky said:

Maine kinda does it with moose. One person draws the tag and they can name a sub-permitee to hunt hunt with them who can also shoot the moose. One moose per tag.

Ok, so it's two people who are actually hunting together as a pair. Kinda like a spotter and shooter tandem? That sounds more sane.

I was thinking you have two hunters, each going their own way and doing their own thing, and whoever shoots first wins.  That's what sounded weird to me.

[midwestxpress]

This helped out of town family still be able to hunt with the group driving deer during gun season.  Wardens will tell you you need to be part of the hunt,  not 500 yds across a field by yourself. I think the law stated you need to be on the same property. That's where the grey area was.  So a nonresident hunter who had a friend in Iowa could buy a nr license and a antlerless tag every year. Go out shoot a buck and have his buddy tag it. The resident had to be on the property, but the warden  wanted the resident to be part of the hunt. Like everything abuse ruins it for everyone. 

[rocky]

A Iowa non-resident archery tag took me 3 years to draw the first 2 times, that's six years. The last Iowa archery tag I drew took 6 years to draw the same unit. I figure the next tag that I draw will take 8-10 years and that will probably be my last tag there at my age.

[Bucksnbows]

59 minutes ago, rocky said:

A Iowa non-resident archery tag took me 3 years to draw the first 2 times, that's six years. The last Iowa archery tag I drew took 6 years to draw the same unit. I figure the next tag that I draw will take 8-10 years and that will probably be my last tag there at my age.

When I lived in the Midwest (IL and MO), non residents couldn’t get a deer permit at all. I hunted pheasant and rabbit there and occasionally saw big bucks I would jump out of beds while small game hunting. 

[Jcol6268]

I’m glad. Will probably increase the point creep Rocky is referring to. I know of three guys that hunt Iowa every year from Jersey via party hunting. Should have been done away with a long time ago. I hope the end it for residents as well. 

[fish_hunter]

Currently sitting on 5 pts and just bought an additional.  May try to go out in 2026 for archery.