You folks in Iowa and other Midwest states have the best chance to see a whitetail grow to it's full potential. Your state(s) just have to implement a one buck rule. Your number one killer of bucks is the hunter.
Here in Saskatchewan our number one killer is winter. As much area as there is...
Hunters have all kinds of criteria when it comes to what they hunt/shoot. Me, I'd be gambling on finding him in a future year. A lot wouldn't have left him to grow to four and a half. Do what you want to do. It's your tag.
Any land that comes up, isn't available for long. This quarter didn't even come on the market. Found out about it by word of mouth. He told us what he wanted and because it touches our land on two sides, we gave him what he was asking. Believe it or not, that's twice what land here was worth...
In this area we can grow 150bu/ac oats, 100 bu/acre barley, 70-80bu/acre wheat, 55bu/acre canola, 60 bu/acre dry peas, 4t/acre hay. All spring sown. Further south they'll grow chickpeas, flax, lentils, durum, fall rye and winter wheat.
Great story and thanks for sharing it on here. I thoroughly enjoyed it (read it four times already, :) ).
It's awesome how it all worked out so well ... like it was meant to be.
Congrats on an amazing deer!!
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