interesting. What do you guys think?

I see a lot of inside favors being made for those "lottery" tags.

I'm probably wrong...but wasn't there something like this introduced earlier with a time frame to use those extra antlered tags in December or January?

Doesn't matter now since the the Legislative session is now over for the year...

Am I reading this wrong? It looks like the bill goes into effect in July....

https://legiscan.com/IN/text/HB1208/id/1094775

hmmm. I did not see this until just now, I read it the same way

$30 for a chance, 100 extra antlered buck licenses given out for hunting in January. Talk about some bonus revenue for the DNR!!

HOUSE BILL No. 1208
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
natural and cultural resources.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
1 SECTION 1. IC 14-22-11-19 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA
2 CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS
3 [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2015]: Sec. 19. (a) The department may
4 adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to establish and operate a lottery
5 system to allow an individual to purchase a license to take more
6 than one (1) antlered deer within a one (1) year period.
7 (b) The rules adopted under subsection (a) must include the
8 following provisions:
9 (1) A provision stating that an individual must have held and
10 used a valid license to take a deer under IC 14-22-12 within
11 the same year in order to participate in the lottery under this
12 section.
13 (2) A provision stating that the fee for participating in the
14 lottery under this section is thirty dollars ($30).
15 (3) A provision stating that the drawing for the lottery under
HB 1208—LS 7212/DI 109
2
1 this section will be held on December 15.
2 (4) A provision stating that there will be only one hundred
3 (100) licenses awarded under the lottery.
4 (5) A provision stating that the season for the deer hunt for
5 which a license is awarded under the lottery is the first week
6 of January.

I think I pointed this out during the session. HB1208 did pass and was signed into law by Gov. Pence effective this year. The trick is that the bill says "the department may adopt rules". It doesn't say they "must adopt rules" only that they may. Those rules would have to come from the NRC. It might happen this year but the groundwork is laid for it to happen.

As I understood it the "lottery" would require that you already have killed a buck. Then for $30 you could purchase a chance to win a chance to purchase a second tag. It could create some additional funding for DNR but it wouldn't be significant in my opinion.

Now that I reread the bill it also doesn't say where that $30 goes. Fish & Wildlife Fund?

Heck, for $30 I can buy 30 Hoosier Lotto tickets .... I'll pass ... If I want another I'll do a State Park hunt or Urban Zone .....

right, I read it this way too. Lines 9 to 11 above.

Why would anyone waste money on a chance to waste more money for an extra buck tag valid only after the buck population has already been laid to waste?

Because a person in a House district was unhappy he could not kill 2 bucks, plain and simple.

TrapperDave????????? "Population has been laid to waste?" Must be a crossbow issue!

actually I was referring to the 3 months of hunting by ALL weapon types....the majority of deer are killed opening day of gun, by guns. not sure where you get crossbows joe.? I dont even own one. Used one once just to say i did.

And we have a winner!!!!

here ya go Joe, just so ya know where the deer are going lol

copied from the dnr summary I thought you read


able 1. Number of deer harvested in each segment of the 2014 Indiana deer hunting season. Values in
parentheses represent percent of total harvest for each type of deer (totals may not be exactly 100 due
to rounding).
Season
Number of deer harvested
Antlered# Antlerless Total
Youth season (27-28 Sept) 765 (2) 1,723 (2) 2,488 (2)
Archery* (1 Oct - 4 Jan) 12,632 (28) 21,968 (29) 34,600 (29)
Firearms (15-30 Nov) 29,323 (64) 38,666 (52) 67,989 (57)
Muzzleloader (6 - 21 Dec) 2,834 (6) 7,991 (11) 10,825 (9)
Late Antlerless** (26 Dec - 4 Jan) 70 (0.2) 4,101 (6) 4,171 (3)
Totals 45,624 74,449 120,073
*Includes Urban Zone deer **In 63 counties #Includes shed buck harvest
2014 Indiana Deer Harvest Summary - 3 -
Table 1. Number of deer harvested in each segment of the 2014
Indiana deer hunting season. Values in parentheses represent
percent of total harvest for each type of deer (totals may not be
exactly 100 due to rounding).
Season Number of deer harvested
Antlered# Antlerless Total
Youth season 765 (2) 1,723 (2) 2,488 (2)
(27-28 Sept)
Archery* 12,632 (28) 21,968 (29) 34,600 (29)
(1 Oct - 4 Jan)
Firearms 29,323 (64) 38,666 (52) 67,989 (57)
(15-30 Nov)
Muzzleloader 2,834 (6) 7,991 (11) 10,825 (9)
(6 - 21 Dec)
Late Antlerless** 70 (0.2) 4,101 (6) 4,171 (3)
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