Recent content by bluedog69

In northern MO it is all over almost every timbered area. I have watched deer eat this for 20-30 minutes while there was clover and soybeans right next to it. I think deer also love it because it provides some bedding cover to hide in in the timber. I have known it as buck brush since I was a...

I am betting most were looking at his wife.

We have one on camera that made it through. Definitely had to be a very late fawn.

I have hunted a very wide path(many states and miles apart) in competition coon hunts back about 25-30 years ago. I have never seen of, or heard of such a thing.(dead cattle) Most of the guys hunting in Nite Hunts were also there to win. Meaning they had top notch hounds that did one thing...

I used to run/raise/breed coon hounds in northern MO. I would much rather have hounds running through my deer honey holes than yard dogs or stray dogs. Trashy deer runners usually don't live a very long life. When you invest thousands and thousands of dollars in a hound to do a certain job for...

This thread reminded me of a cougar study years ago out west. They GPS collared 4 cougars if my memory serves me correctly. They were wanting to document the older and sick deer kills to back up that cougars would help eliminate CWD deer. To their amazement the cats ate 100% fawns for the first...

We owe a debt we can’t repay. Thanks to all vets!!!

That would be a trip of a lifetime!!! Bigger is not always better.

Awesome story and deer! Congrats!!

Awesome stuff!

Congrats! It truly is about the experience. One you both will never forget, and that is priceless.

I need to retire from teaching and start being a tree nerd!

An average farmer back in the late 80's and 90's could buy ground based on if it penciled out that the land could pay for it. Now you better have a lot of extra to pay for it. Used to be $300-$500 pasture ground with $500 weaning calves. Now its $6000 pasture ground with $1500 calves(which may...

I am pretty sure that when I was a "young buck" I would have shifted to areas of high "doe" concentrations.

This reminded me of angus cattle breeders. If you go and buy the best bull calf that a small registered farmer produced from his herd of 30 cows(15 bulls) what are the chances that he will be of equal quality as the best bull calf produced by the farmer with 600 cows(300 bull calves to pick from)