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Yikes! At a BARE MINIMUM...once any of those LEO's had knowledge of a guy laying on a nearby roof with a rifle, or even if they didn't know he had a gun, you hit your radio and enact a "Code Red" or whatever to get the target on the ground IMMEDIATELY...as in before the shots ring out. If the...

We don't always have cams out during the spring, so year to year comparisons are sketchy for us in that time period. But...my son did have a couple cams up through the spring months this year and we definitely saw way better than normal growth on known bucks in the April-early June timeframe...

If your county is on Beacon, the value of the transactions are visible there, although there is a few week/month delay.

Following...I just walked into our cabin after some spraying and was wondering the same thing.

He said he did not find anything, but...there were boot prints in the mud, suggesting that someone else may have walked it before he got there. While we couldn't be sure because those prints could have been made by someone working on the earth moving crew while building the pond, etc, there is...

I will admit to paying a little more attention to a disked field after a rain, etc, but do not consider myself a true artifact hunter. I do know several people that are pretty serious about it though, I think it is a cool pastime, I just have enough irons in the fire that I don't need another...

Good memory...we did get whacked by EHD last year. We found around 18 carcasses, mainly while shed hunting, and I am 99% sure that we didn't find all of the "bones". I would estimate that we found roughly half, maybe less, of the die offs. But, by about mid-December last year we started to...

Using a Genesis drill, I planted a 2 acre field of soybeans about 3-4 weeks ago now and have had some rains on the field. The beans came up looking fairly good, but I also had some weed growth happening too. The beans are RR tolerant, so I sprayed them last Saturday and would anticipate...

We are still doing OK this year a little east of you, but adequate rainfall is a really elusive commodity for us in many years. It just seems nuts that 150 miles away things are radically flooded.

I have not seen any myself, here in Iowa. But I have heard people talk about the occasional one being around. Perhaps there are a few more northerners these days??

If you don't mind sharing...where in Iowa was this beast? In all my years here in Iowa, I have never seen a weasel. I know there are some, but for whatever reason, not where I have been. :)

Interesting...I don't follow this closely, but I thought they might start off by restricting things less severely than that. Hmmm. Short version...although I have never hunted elk in Colorado I have heard many people that do say that it just keeps getting more crowded all the time. So from...

From what I have seen, the best quality lumber trees tend to come from bottom ground, as in down slope. There a tree has to grow straight and tall to "reach" for sunlight v. the other neighbor trees. Take my advice FWIW, I am not a professional forester, but I think "field" trees are going to...

Just a total FWIW...about 20 years ago now I travelled to southern Texas to hunt javelina, etc, and the "locals" there were lamenting this ^^ very phenomenon. Parcels being split up and resold. One of them had a name/term for the practice..."segmentation".

I think you make many valid points to consider, it is definitely true that it is easier, via technology and gear, etc, to bag an old buck than it once was. But...there is a clear distinction here IMO in that the cell cam can give the exact location of a living beast in real time to a hunter...

Just an FYI...I have heard tell of a mighty big buck that was taken down last fall with exactly this ^^ strategy. The "hunter" got pics of Mr. Big sent to him where he lived/worked, which is about 2-1/2 hours away from his hunting farm. Upon receiving pics of Mr. Big walking in the daylight...

I don't know about 2023, but I do know that large sections of Monroe got hit hard with EHD either 3 or 4 years ago now. I bought an implement from a guy over there either 2 or 3 years ago and he was lamenting the dramatic EHD loss they experienced the year before. Absolutely PRIME looking...

Just a FWIW FYI on miscanthus... I bought about 1000 rhizomes last year, 2023, and dutifully planted and sprayed for them appropriately, etc. Then...it didn't rain for about 2-3 months, and I mean, it didn't rain. :( So, I saw essentially no sign of growth or survival from this effort...

I first started deer hunting in the late '70's, so that is my frame of reference, FWIW. My recollection is that basically everyone got a buck only tag when we submitted our tag applications via mail. Only a few lucky souls got any sex tags, allowing them to shoot a doe. That tag was gold and...

How rock solid is that gestation period? I ask because a number of years ago I had to mow my CRP and was doing so, under a time extension, in early May, like the 6th-10th, and we ran into some fawns. We were able to steer around them, but there were at least 3 and I was surprised to see them...