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No luck for me but did get great news in the form of an email from Oregon. Their computer made an error. I drew the 2nd best elk tag in the state. Only one NR unguided tag. . Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You should meet plenty of your neighbors there. Last time I drew in 2017 there was no shortage. I have hunted zone 5 public five or six times since 1990 as a NR. Scouted more than that. I highly recommend scouting if you have not done so. You would really be shorting yourself. The DNR closed...

So last month my company expanded my work area to include the entire state of Iowa. I live in Indiana. I’ve been scouting & hunting zone 5 public for 25 years, but with the hunting pubs pushing zones 4&5, I see the points required going up significantly soon. And with the $50 point fee and...

Wow. Just got a curve ball. Had my USPS work area shift west for at least the next three years to include the entire state of Iowa! And none in Indiana. And they took away from me anything within city limits of Chicago & Milwaukee. But kept all suburbs. So got more driving but safer areas...

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https://www.illinoispolicy.org/failure-on-the-anniversary-of-illinois-2017-tax-hike/ Do you Iowa residents really have to pay an 8.98% state income tax as indicated in this article??? Or is this just a bad typo? I did confirm my new rate in Indiana is 3.23%.

I've heard far too many bad stories about overcrowding on WI public. I love the cheap turkey hunting there on leftover tags, but all the toms are very heavily pressured and run like hell from blinds/dekes so that's another indicator. Love Iowa for no guns in November & real nonresident tag...

Haha check out the lack of landscaping at our house! There’s only 40 homes in this little 20 year old subdivision and all of them are beautifully landscaped except ours. We are gonna hit it off with the neighbors just fine, as we will move in just as spring planting can be done. Will have it up...

After patiently shopping for 7 months, I ended up deciding to go with a manufactured home on a big lot in a really nice rural subdivision in NW Indiana. We close March 8th. I just didn't care for eastern Iowa very much. Maybe it was just the dreary weather that influenced my view? I ended up...

I also agree with what some have mentioned here with regards to commercials & YouTube. I actually cancelled my cable years ago. Don’t miss it at all. YouTube has way more hunting shows than I even bother to watch. The ones I do are the DIY ones like OYOA, Hunting Public, Brunk Outdoors, etc...

Can’t believe nobody mentioned this yet, but for me it’s acid rock music injected in and out of a video. Often times the volume gets cranked up simultaneously. There’s nothing that will get me to exit a video quicker. I enjoy the outdoors for the solitude and being with nature. Getting away...

Yes I know but I’d much rather save my preference point for an archery tag down the road. But I won’t be waiting for zone 5 any more. Hell it will be up to 5 points by then. I’ll lose 25 years of experience but what can you do? Only other option I might try there is late muzzleloader some day.

Well all I can say is that I’m glad I burned my Wyoming deer points for a max point pool trophy unit and I intend to milk that for every hour I can, for both the archery portion and rifle. Because after that I am relegated to our piss poor over hunted Illinois public for this whitetail season...

Here’s the current flight rankings from USA Today. Illinois tops for the 5th straight year. It’s not a matter of if we leave, only when. The sooner the better. Pathetic. The same as our public land deer, managed by the same greased politicians.

OK well this sucks. Looks like just bad luck for me. My travels take me all along the borders of Illinois, and almost always the depressed side of the river is Illinois, due to our ridiculous taxes. Case in point Cairo & St. Louis. Heck every gas station on the IL side is boarded up in these...

Reminds me of the old days. Used to go every year, often all the way up to Red Lake. But the generation up all passed away, and my 3 sons moved away. Enjoy the good times with good friends.

Haha all my friends think she is mail order. I actually know a guy who did that. But no I actually met my wife in Milwaukee on one of my work trips up there 4 years ago. She was on a one year mandarin teaching program at a high school. Fang retires next week so she will move here but keep...

Anyone aware if any politician has been bought out by the crossgun manufacturers yet in Iowa? If not, it's only a matter of time. That poison is spreading like wildfire everywhere else. Politicians here think that winning an election is their ticket to fast coin. Here's the mentality they...

I'll be driving east regularly 50% of my work days so I really cannot consider places like Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Coralville. Bettendorf is possible. Probably anything from Quad Cities to Clinton for good I-80 access. My wife will arrive here July 12th. Yes we will be taking a drive out...

I currently live in the far western suburbs of Chicago. Got married 2 years ago and wife is moving here from China July 12th. I need to buy us a home but no way in hell I will do so in Illinois or Wisconsin due to the outrageous state employee pork barrel salaries/pensions & resulting highest...