Recent content by Thinkin Rut

Keep it at 40 and grandfather everyone in for a set time, say 3-5 years. Put them on notice. Keep the tags as they are now with a 2 buck limit. Hit your 2 and you're tagged out. Keep shotgun party hunting intact to satisfy that shrinking crowd. Everyone sacrifices. A genuine thank you Skip for...

booneriverbucks...I love having you around, you make me shine :)

As far as I know, the 2 acre minimum has been in place during the highest highs and the lowest lows and everything in between. Abuse is nothing new. You can't stand back and point your finger at its inception and say yep, there's our problem. I get very leery when asked to make a quick decision...

All that he needs to do is open the eyes of the voters that are willing.

I think you can only buy 2...one is free to the landowner. Might have that wrong? One has to be the 4th season unless you commit to hunting with a bow.

Make it 120 as long as you grandfather the small LOs in. The reality is, if the deer population wasn't artificially pushed lower by EHD this wouldn't even be on the table....it wouldn't stand a chance in hell at being passed. This bill has all the merit in the world, I just don't like the timing...

The most simple, most fair and best chance to pass hands down. The only way I could get behind 247 would be to grandfather in those currently owning or getting ready to close on a piece less than 40. I can't justify kicking a resident in the teeth.

I'm all about cleaning up fraud and abuse. I'm also for taking the grey areas out of the regs. This though, seems to fall into the category of don't let a good crisis go to waste. EHD being the crisis. EHD is killing way more deer than a 3 acre LO. Seems to me we're trying to fix the result of...

Leave it alone but once you kill your 2 you're done. I like that. I also like the 80 acres to qualify for a LO tag also but previous LO's should be grandfathered in. That might help with the segmentation problem also.

Id replace the brassicas with Rye...it probably needs a break from the brassicas anyway. You won't be sorry and you can come back to brassicas another time. You could even run a small brassica test plot if you really wanted.

What is the upper end of the going rate?

Yes, and that didn't seem like much to me. I'm sure at some point they would turn their nose up :)

In addition to these treatments, we use powdered garlic in our feed at the rate of 2# per ton of feed throughout the year. I find it to be very effective in reducing ticks and the animals do not seem to mind the taste. I wonder what this would equate to adding garlic to 100 lbs of mineral...

1st would be Ivermectin...best place to buy, what form does it come in and best way to apply to mineral and grain? 2nd, best place to purchase granular garlic? And does anyone add any straight salt or Dical to it? Starting with kent framework and molasses.

IMO...shotgunners have their place when numbers are high, almost doing what mother nature will do without. It's when you couple it with something as devastating as EHD is when it's a problem. Don't get it twisted, the shoot everything crowd is just a tool for the DNR. The DNR can't stop EHD but...