draw...aim...shoot! I love to shoot big mature bucks and spend more time on my property trying for more and bigger every year. but I just love to hunt and take a deer or two each year. so if that meant my goal was for something smaller I'd still go and still love it.
I love archery deer season. A second archery tag does nothing but degrade the heard, just like many othe changes proposed to the iowa deer seasons. Please leave them alone!!!
But you can't carry a 12 ga while bow hunting and even if I could I wouldn't for the weight in the mountains. No doubt it's better at deterring a bear, but so is a 375 H7H.
First and foremost...never pass up an opportunity to buy a gun at your wife's request! Weight is very important to me. So to me, the only options are the Glock 29 or Springfield Compact 10 MM's.
Oh what beautiful weather!!! 1/2"in SE Iowa so far but another 1/2" expected throughout the day. My turnips planted over a month ago have come up but are only a few inches tall. This should let them take off. Thank God it did no till.
None of us have a crystal ball...so I try to play the odds. This is a really nice deer that took a HUGE jump in one year. On three legs no less. I say the odds of a three leg deer taking a significant jump back to back are not zero but very slim.
Like...
Good jump 10%
Same 60%
Less 30%
With...
That makes more sense! While 9.5 is very old, and I never would have guessed that, I can never tell the difference from 5 to whatever. If your 2020 pictures were of a 1.5 year old deer, or 2022 were of a 3.5, I was going to have to throw in the towel of ever being able to age a deer by...
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