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Wow. I would also like to see more pictures. His face looks young and mass of his bases looks small. He doesn't look 4.5 to me. Might be a stud 3.5. More pictures would definately help. If he is in the rifle zone you better hope he doesn't shed for a coulpe weeks! He will definately be on...

Good questions. This is how I'd answer. No I'm not a biologist. But I do have eyes and spend a lot of time hunting and scouting each year. Also the deer biologist who is employed by Iowa says the numbers are where they should be or below in most of Iowa's counties. Why do areas still have a...

I can't remember ever being turned down by a landowner in Iowa when asking to coyote hunt. I have only been turned down a couple times for fox in 30+ years of hunting. The January antlerless season and November antlerless seasons need to be ended. Running deer in January when deer are...

A friend of mine has one and he can shoot sub MOA groups at 100 and 200 yards with red hot sabots (250 grains) and 777. Best shooting muzzleloader I have personally seen. May take a little longer to clean but who cares when your looking at your monster buck that you took at 200 yards. I don't...

I hear there isn't much of a job market /opportunities south of interstate I-80 with the exception of a couple larger towns. The Des Moines area would be your best bet. Southern Iowa has outsourced most of the manufacturing jobs and the ag sector is the only thing proping the towns up. Many...

Just look at the number of hunting licenses sold in Iowa and pheasant population numbers. I sat through a seminar at Pheasant Fest in Des Moines a couple years ago and the DNR guy presenting was worried because of the very things I described. The DNR guy had several graphs to show the...

Exactly. Another thing that I have been seeing in the last 5 years is that more farmers going back to fall tillage practices vs no-till practices which leaves vertially no spilled grain exposed for pheasants and wildlife throughout the winter. So as Teeroy pointed out, no cover and no food...

We know that you still have milk dripping off your chin. :D You'll just have to believe those of us that are old enough to remember the 1980's.

Sign me up as well. I plan on stunning them with a 55gr hollow point prior to loading them in the back of the transport truck. Transport truck will quickly deliver them to the local taxidermist for proper treatment and relocation onto an appropriate base with suitable habitat. If anyone sees...

Amen!!! I remember bowhunting in the 1980's and don't recall sitting one time in the stand and not seeing deer. I have had at least a dozen hunts in the last two years where I sat for 3-4 hours and never laid eyes on a single deer. The number of quality bucks also has significantly decrease over...

Can't just look at total harvest numbers alone. Have to look at % of does killed. For every doe shot the population decreases by three the next year and for every buck it decreases by one. The spike occured because doe harvest was minimal from 1960's through the 1970's. From 1980 through 1990 I...

Exactly. It's not rocket science guys. The population would have peaked at what ever year you wanted to pick 1985, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005 if that was the year when the DNR decided to slaughter all the does. Grain prices have been low since the late 1970's and didn't start rising...

How many tables/booths? Sounds like a good time.

Well shot my TC tonight with 125 gr of 777 with the 250 gr shockwave and it shot much better. I had two shots in the bullseye about .25 inch apart and one that was about 2 inches from the center of the bullseye at 100 yards. The 125 gr of 777 had the exact same zero as 150 gr of pyrodex which...

I grew up with a Ruger 10/22. Shot a lot of small game with that rifle. :way:

Thanks for the advice. I'll try backing the powder down tomorrow. My buddy said I could try his red hot bullets and 777 as well. I gotta believe the gun will shoot better than it has been. The rest was good and conditions were perfect to shoot that day. I shot a .5" 5 shot group with my AR...

I would like to improve the accuracy of my Encore Endeavor 50 cal. I haven't been impressed by my groups at 100 yards. I would say my groups are around 4". I have been running a TC cleaning patch then a dry patch between shots. I am shooting 3 pyrodex pellets (150 gr) with 250 grain TC...

No one is questioning your "RIGHT" to do it, but just because you have the right doesn't mean that it is responsible land stewardship. Buffering water runoff from ag land is without a doubt the responsible land practice. Poor land stewardship by current and previous generations have cost Iowa...

Tough to loose your dog. How far from home did you find him?

If he is not coming out of the woods before dark. Go a hundred yards into the woods and hang your trail cameras on the trails leading to the food sources. Figure out what trails he is using. Go in and hang a stand for the predominant wind and "bust em" there. He is staging in the woods waiting...