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I really enjoyed this podcast. Without writing a book to summarize I just thought they brought up some excellent points and it wasn't a bash session against any one particular group or method of hunting.

CP25 allowed me 10% but like Jake said I had to do it per field and not all tied together with kind of stinks in my instance. Ended up leaving a small amount out of the program to increase the size of the one food plot.

Finished youth season off with an another great hunt. Wasn’t even planning on hunting just went to take the blind down but decided to sit a while. Last youth tag for Tyler. Next year moves on to using his bow. Maybe even a second tag this year if time allows.

On my 3 hour trip back home up to northeast Iowa I think I counted 6 or 7 of them. Thats counting 380 through Cedar Rapids. Unfortunately one of them busted me as well. I heard there will be one coming on 80 near Newton as well if it hasn’t already.

After only getting one bird in the last 2 years (0 last year) between the 3 of us and having some really crappy hunting the drought finally ended this morning. Last few years have sucked for about every reason you can think of so this was pretty awesome moment with my youngest who happens to be...

IBA sent out a call to action through voter voice I believe

Nice. Lots of fun times there. Personally worst year we have had. Not sure what's up.

Finally remembered to get some pics, small area anyway. Hard to see what’s girdled and isn’t. Have a video that shows a little better but can’t get it to post.

This is where I would live to have someone go through the cutting I just did and tell me if it's enough. Hopefully get the same results as 2-bucks.

I will try and get some pictures real soon but I know I won't be down there for at least a week.

Finished my cutting today after another 5 hours on the saw. I did little over 8 acres in approximately 15 hours. What was once a relatively clean open hickory timber floor is now littered with fallen trees and what seemed like another 1000 girdled. Will be interesting so see what it looks like...

Thoughts on lucky buck brand? Just another gimmick with false advertising or decent?

It's a timber management program I applied for. It is not in a timber reserve. There are other similar programs like reap and csp that are more detailed. I just did a simple timber management only. Forester came out walked property came up with a detailed plan breaking down the farm and what he...

Buddy I hunt and work with has a neighbor directly across from one of his farms that seems to always have a pile of dogs on their acreage. Rescues them or something. We are always working in the shed and around grain bins, etc. at one time they had pitbulls and couple other yard yappers that...

Stupid there are ignorant aholes like that ruining for it for everybody. If it was happening to me during season I would be freaking out and raising hell. Few years ago when the dog bill came out and there was such an uproar there were a few very active dog guy’s across the state contacting...

I've sat in hundreds of stands on a ton of farms for 30 plus years day dreaming over and over about what I would do to improve that particular farm to make it into a whitetail Mecca. From stand locations, plots, tree plantings, etc, etc and now I finally have that opportunity to put those dreams...

Well met the forester this morning and started marking trees for a 9 acre timber management deal in a heavy hickory timber. I know people have said cut cut cut but man I was shocked at the number of trees we marked. Really informative stuff working with him. Hopefully get started cutting in the...

IBA Banquet on March 23 at prairie meadows. Speaker is Nick Mundt. Seminars prior to banquet. Lots of good stuff on the raffles and auctions including a muddy blind. Tickets and more info on website. Iowa bowhunters.org.

I'll be really curious to see how many the forester marks next week. My goal is cover and regen on the oaks. would you guys that have done this before recommend hinging, girdling, dropping or all of the above and what percentage of each?

I have similar deal. Very high percentage of hickory, mostly young and not market ready. I'm doing a timber management cut next week. Forrester is coming to mark trees to cut. I have a fair amount of young oak anywhere from seedling to 10-15 foot so releasing them by removing hickory trees...