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Is that good alfalfa? I have thought about trying some of that myself in Jan and Feb to maybe get more sheds on my ground. Do they eat it much?

What part of Iowa? Northern half or souther half? I am in northern MO. Dying to start looking but hate to bump bucks out of timber.

Iowa used to be shotgun and muzzle loader only....long before muzzleloaders became as accurate as center fires. Missouri has never allowed party tags and I am glad, because many people down here would fill every tag they could. Filling tags with a 7 mag at 400 yards would be a lot easier than...

Thirty five years ago I thought Iowa must have different northern deer genes. Now I think MO could be king if they would move the season to December. The number of almost Booners we have is amazing until gun season opens on the 10th of November right in the hard core rut. Most of what you see on...

Brutal is for sure. Maybe the nice easy December will have helped some bucks get back in better shape before this hit. How any animal survives is beyond me.

Tackett and Wyatt went out about two days ago as they were making good use of a snow day and called a big male in. I think they said it weighed 37 lbs. Tackett is 15 now and 6’3” with boots on for size reference.

Ours are 640 Pulsar Thermion XG50s with a base mag of 3X. My boys have really figured out how to adjust brightness and contrast to get great image quality. Conditions of temperature and humidity are different every night, and therefore to get the best the scope can offer you have to adjust it to...

Is that also called the Ladder Ranch? Thats where they held mountain lion workshops for the game departments of the east.

Ditto! I have had the same thought.

My boys and daughter have killed about 50 out of our yard in the last two years. I know several other guys that have hit 100+ several years in a row. It doesn't seem to be putting any kind of a dent in the population at all. There are just that many out there since the fur market has been non...

I would say almost zero. Now there are idiots out there...daytime....or night time. We hunt at one of my daughters houses sometimes. We can see 1500 yards. There is a corner that sticks out in to the open field at 1000. We see deer and coyotes at that corner all the time. Even at 1000 yards a...

Sounds good to me. It is like all hunting. You can go days and see nothing but when you do man is it fun!

I would bet that those same kind of guys were spotlight coyotes before they had night vision and they were probably trespassing before the night vision came out. Losers are losers. Down here in MO we have only had a short night season a couple of years. I will say this that if you hunt with a...

Very impressive buck!!!

Here is the one thing that I think most people do. You have a herd of does in front of you, the biggest doe gets hammered. Reason 1, probably not gonna be a button buck, and reason 2, I think guys feel better if they shot a huge doe instead of just a doe. In general a bigger bodied doe and one...

Awesome awesome statement. I have often said that we should be managing doe quality more than buck quality. Missouri pushed a trend of shoot the biggest doe and leave the young ones. To cut the population down Well if you shoot the does that will raise the biggest healthiest fawn and always go...

I was about to get into front tooth aging, but then came across way to many cases where a guy had a buck on camera for 7 years worth of pics and they aged him at 5. The guy figured he was 3 or 4 in his first set of pics. Of course he thought they were 4 to 5 years off in their analysis and was...

Here is what I an getting at though. Your county has probably 4 - 5 times the deer mine does. No deer lives solely on 60 acres unless he is a very old wise wise wise deer(rare) and that 60 has zero human intereference. Mine is not all in one piece. I wish it was. I have a 65, 85, 150, and 300...

I wish I could reassess my neighbors to somewhere else. LOL The NW corner of MO does not have antlerless season anymore and reduced does tags. We were devastated by EHD in 2012. Have never fully recovered. We used to kill 18 - 22 deer a year off our farm every year. Now its 1-3. You are...

This is where MO and IA probably differ a lot. Over the last 7 years of running 20 cameras on 600 acres. We have maybe had a dozen bucks on camera 2 years. Only 1 buck that I know of, we had him on camera 3 years. My boys would say maybe 2 or 3 bucks more have been on there several years but...