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I'm on the fence here. Deer seem to eat corn off the stalk just fine, ask any farmer. What's the difference if it is mowed? Easier to see (shoot) them without the stalks in the way? I guess it doesn't fit the "waste grain left from normal agricultural practices" verbiage, but food plots...

Really? I can click on the hyperlink words in the first two post to open articles. The first one is about a shooting range where those wanting to rapid fire are complaining about those (hunters) who shoot slow and tie up the bench. Second article is about "casual" hunters being looked down...

No comments since I posted those links, so here's something to stimulate conversation. The whole "woke" movement, where the majority of people were supposed to support/champion/elevate a small segment of the population, really made me bristle. Is the "manage for trophy" mindset driven by a...

Casual hunters

Differing views Reading that article, I saw parallels to a couple of current threads.

I've watched the orange army die in my area. In the early '90's, gun seasons saw trucks full of orange clad hunters in the cab and even in the bed of pickups zipping up and down the road. Gun fire was pretty constant up and down the river. This past season, no trucks, maybe 20 shots during...

Agree. Some of the best dirt on a HEL farm has washed from the hilltops down to the creek banks. A farmer is supposed to farm the clay nobs but not the fertile ground along the bottoms? Lot of that area might not have the steepest HEL in the state though.

Circle M Auction in Maquoketa has an upcoming auction that will get you "craft prices" for them. Not the best money but easy.

Why should I give up anything? Been years since I killed a deer with SML and it was Gun Season 1. 50 yard shot. Longest SML before that was 175 yard and that is not my game, I want them closer for a higher percentage shot. Not into the long-range shooting (versus hunting) thing. Last late...

I seriously doubt there will be major DNR regulation changes next year. Focus on no new weapons/seasons? Crossbow comes to mind.

Appears the guy is a great shot, probably practices a ton. So you use a broad brush to paint smokeless shooters as the root of the decline of trophy deer? How many people shoot smokeless? How many people that shoot smokeless take such long shots? How many bucks do these long-range smokeless...

I'd rather have the "right" 15 than a poor 150. I killed some of my best deer off a 15 acre parcel. Buy it to build equity into the future. You can use it as collateral or flip it when something better comes along.

WAY BACK when I read our CRP contract, leasing/selling hunts was about the only way a person could make money off the land enrolled. They had a long list of prohibited activities like an airfield (thought the ground was HEL/steep?), camping, fairs, other random things. I would be fine if...

And bee hives. I nailed some pallet wood as steps back in the day, thankfully those days are just a distant memory.

My parents have passed. I was visiting my uncle in Denver three years ago and we were talking about when my wife and I bought a farm in CRP. Uncle said my parents were aghast that I was "sucking on the govt teat". They never said it to my face. Uncle said he thought it was a great move. The...

Thinking my season might be over, but not shooting baldies even if I go. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I can't remember the last doe I shot, been 5, maybe 10 years? Last buck taken was 2024, before that 2020. Probably not punch a tag this year. Haven't even bothered getting antlerless tags, even the landowner ones. On the bright side, I saw lots of YOUNG deer this year, both buck and doe...

Are we going to top last year's harvest? My money says no. 25,000 more deer in the remaining seasons? I hope we don't. 2025 Harvest numbers

I mentioned Wisconsin’s failure to Jace Elliot (IA DNR) in a public forum encouraging them to not go down the same path. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We got snow cover before the ground froze, so I'm betting it wouldn't be that hard to dig a community hole as Rob mentioned. If left in pots in a garage, I'd be afraid of them getting freeze dried over winter.