Farm hunting permits

[gh1950]

I can tell you that it is a system that is wildly abused and should be done away with.

Preach it brother.

 

[gh1950]

If you are talking about a deprivation permit, then yes the farmer has to apply and prove crop damage. Also you are correct that you have to let them lay, at least for deer. For several years I killed deer for a tree farm and that was the rules then.

That rule has been changed. You can take them out of the field and donate them to a food bank. I think keeping them for personal consumption is still off limits.

No antlered bucks. (So you do what the locals do and gut shoot the bucks)

Shooter has to be listed on the application, no game violations.

DNR is supposed to check the kill, then re-assess the crop damage. That may happen in a parallel universe, around here it's the honor system. (Ring, ring, ring. Hello. How many you shoot? Uhhhhh, 4. They still eating up very thing. UUUUUUUh, sue. Well shoot some more, calll us back when you don't have any more crop damage. O.K.)

5 acres of crops, if I remember. No permit if the deer are eating up the garden you are relying on for the next year.