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I just want everyone to know what to expect when they buy and lease up land in my hood. I have let big deer go, I have let tons of little deer go. But sometimes that smallish buck stands there a little too long. Or that doe blows snot at you one too many times. At the end of the day I will...

If the locals want to keep out of town leasers and land owners away then they need to start blasting every 120 inch buck they see. Its a lot less fun to pay a bunch of money and not have a crack at a big buck. 20 years ago it was shoot any buck you see, then that wasn't fun anymore so we...

I believe that if I had 2 or more continuous acres of pure timber, and I aplyed for a Landowner tag and was told no, I would call it tree farm. You don't need to get ag income off of it every year. Or I would plant some fruit trees and call it an orchard. Or plant some Christmas trees and...

I just want to be clear, which if any of these statements is true? So far crossbows are allowed in the Late Season, but next year MAY be allowed in the archery season. or So far crossbows are allowed in the Late Season, but next year they WILL be allowed in the archery season. or So...

I gotcha Sli keep up the good work.

Skip, I don't know you, but I have an idea that you are a pretty sharp fella, probably made some right decitions in life maybe laid it on the line once or twice and made some pretty good money doing something, bought some land to hunt on. As far as better hunting for neighbors... why because...

For that 15 acres QDM its really too small for a cattle guy, my comments were for the tracts 40 acres and bigger. As far as what to offer that guy, i guess it just depends on what you can afford, there won't probaby be much income potential there so resale is going to stink. Unless its smack...

If there are any beef cattle farmers in the neighborhood, it shouldn't go for under 3 grand. They know it won't go to zero and if they can make some pretty good money off of it for the 3-5 years they will be setting the pace. So called rec ground around here will be called pasture.

There can definatly be differances. Heck for me its better if there wern't crossbows. But there are three different guys that have brought up an end to party hunting and and all out end to gun hunting in this thread. Unless I am reading it wrong IABUCKSLAYER2013, Curtis, and Sligh all...

For the record I could care less about crossbows, I shotgun and muzzleload. I just see a lot of angst with mostly bow hunters against gun hunters or crossbow or whatever. My point is that hunters and outdoorsmen and women shouldn't fight against each other because there are other battles more...

I see that most the people not wanting a crossbow season as bow hunters. It makes me feel like they don't want more competition in an already competitive season. the worry about unintended concequences and less trophy bucks and less deer. I see this push to end party hunting coming from bow...

hoosier, i work on the family farm and literally talk with 100's of farmers per week. A vast majority don't feel that there are too many deer and "screaming herd reduction". Of the handfull that do 95% of them have lagitimate complaints. So I think it is you that are exagerating. I...

Hoosier I know I am just and idiot. But here is goes anyway. I don't think all farmers in the state say they have deer damage. The guys out in flat black corn and bean country don't, I am sure. Since you are an insurance guy you proably know that insuranc claims mostly are set by price and...

Hoosier why do you feel the need to come to an Iowa Whitetail to complain about how the farmers are destroying habitat, hunters are pushing deer, and don't give NR's tags? You don't live work or hunt here. Don'you have problems in your own state? Go on a crusade to fix your own deer...

theres a lot of deer, i have no idea per square mile, fewer than there were a few years ago i would guess somewhere around 3000-4000 acres i never really added it up. most of that is timber/pasture but a pretty good jag of corn and alfalfa lets see there are probably 10-15 bow hunters...

they eat the whorls, you know where the tassle is before it comes out, at say v5 thr v9. i am no idiot hoosier. i can see every night with my own two eyes deer coming out of the woods walking down the row with the whorl of the corn plants in their mouth. if you are ever in my neck of the...

Pretty easy to spot deer damage in corn. If you look at high density areas alot of the damage happens just before pollination. The deer being the brousers that they are will walk along and pullout the tassles from each corn plant. Taking off the top oh say 4-5 leaves and the tassle. That...

It seems to me most of the people complaing on this thread are from out of state. You will get no sympathy from me. There have been a coupla NRLO's around this neighborhood that somehow drew tags every year. Needless to say they sold their land and are gone now. They were nice guys but broke...

Some people think hunting isn't ethical. Maybe we should limit that.

If lockers wouldn't take deer that wern't properly reported it would probably increase reported deer as well. Maybe they require that already. It seems like check in stations would be cost prohibitive and money would be better spent elsewhere. But it might be kind of fun to check in deer...