Recent content by 2.5YR8

How was landowner status proven prior to the new electronic system? I've only owned for 5 years so the new system is all I know. It seems like there was more potential for abuse prior to the new way, and I wonder if old landowners were just grandfathered in without ever having to prove what...

I don't know what caused it, but we've had a doe around for a few years that only has 1 ear. Looks the same as yours. I'll post a pic of it facing the camera if I can find one.

Still going down in my area. This is the 2nd year I decided not to shoot any does, and I have less does now than 2 years ago. Nothing has changed as far as pressure on neighboring properties. My cams are taking 1/2 the pics they used to. I went multiple days during 2nd season not seeing a deer...

I've used the law firm Moore, McKibben, Goodman, & Lorenzen out of Marshalltown a couple times for FSBO land sales, and was happy with them. They managed to fix a screw up from a different lawyer I had hired 1st.

It's right around 22 acres. We established around 5 acres of a pollinator prairie blend. We also put a couple acres in sunflowers that once the sunflowers get established we let whatever weed/grass come up under them. There's also a couple acres of clover. The rest is timber, and pasture I...

I'm in year 4 of turning a cattle farm into wildlife habitat. Since I put in prairie in 2021 I would see/hear pheasants a handful of times a year. I've been seeing/hearing them everyday for a couple months. The work seems to be paying off.

That was my thinking. I did a research paper in college on CWD, and all the studies I read through the conclusions were inconclusive. The sample sizes are all really small, and depends on post mortem diagnosis. What they do know is there are 2-3 different types of CJD. The 1 they believe is...

I wish he provided the citations for the claims in his article. I'm going to have to go searching for info. about the natural barrier preventing CWD from transmitting deer to man. That's the 1st I've heard anyone claim that.

If this passed my county would drop forest reserve before the ink dried. My 23 acres is all taxed as residential since I took all agriculture off it, and the only thing I plant is for wildlife. The only thing keeping my taxes under $10k a year is 8 acres of forest reserve.

Same thing I've been doing the last 2 months. Sitting in a boot waiting on a torn achilles to heal. It was kind of nice the snow held off this long, I could at least hobble around the driveway. No way I'm doing that now.

This guy is a giant. Taller than my lab.

I would have more land and my neighbors' would be rich because I finally caved and paid them the outrageous numbers they want. Other than land I would be upgrading and getting more equipment.

I'm with ya. I've never bought my landowner any sex tag only a couple anterless tags, and in 26 years of deer hunting I've killed 2 bucks in one year once. I've had several multi year periods between shooting bucks. It also kind of irritates me when people call an any sex tag a buck tag. Iowa...

Some light at the end of the tunnel that was this crappy fall. The 3 biggest bucks made it through shotgun season. I had a couple other good ones show up during the rut that hopefully stick around. I'll leave cams up for another month, and hopefully some more show up.