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Specific to the bolded section above. IMO, where I think Iowa and Missouri could differ is that Iowa has such a small percentage of their landscape that is top end deer habitat. So even with fewer people going for the tags here, etc, there is A LOT less area in Iowa that is really good v. MO...

If I am looking Letemgrow's charts correctly, as depicted in post #46, there is a very steep drop in permits issued to firearm R's from 2017 (854K) to 2021 (777K). Why such a large drop? Is that a signal that MO R's are losing access?

Just my opinion...if NR tags were not limited in Iowa to the extent that they are now, access for residents would get far worse overnight than what it is right now...and it ain't great now. Also, some NR's have decided to sell, or move here, due to the growing number of years it takes to get a...

I totally get your predicament...I have about 3 or 4 places on my farm that resemble what you have described. Yes, the deer will cross those deep ditches some, but like you have noticed, the main, natural movement is "upslope", where it is easy walking. I have toyed for years with the idea of...

Glad to see the bad guys get caught! A key phrase in all of that, to me, was..."The landowners conducted their own investigation...". Good for those guys!

OMG...another blast from the past from my HS days. This one though, this one was a joke of a product, admittedly.

Hmmm...I am not sure if I have one or not. It's possible that I do, in a box, in the garage, etc. I'll look. Mine would probably be a prototype, not the finished product. Perhaps that would make it even more collectible. Haha. :)

Insider alert!! :) Former HS guy here. This ALSO WORKED! For real!! And yes, I had one of the early prototypes to test one fall. Called in deer AND squirrels. :)

Hey now...that thing really does work!! Little known fact...I worked for Hunter's Specialties when this life altering device was brought to the market. I actually sat in a meeting with the creator(s) of the Butt-Out as they pitched their product to the owners of the company at that time...

Very much agree. ^^ The only people happy about the deer populations then were...deer hunters! I am more in the neutral territory here on what should be done, but there is no way on earth that we will ever see the very high overall deer populations that we had in the early 2000's, no way...

In Southern Iowa, the "safe" date for switchgrass germination was told to me to be May 10th. Early, or late, Springtime conditions could influence that date. But I always found it to be "right in there" in terms of accuracy/validity.

Just a FYI...this practice goes back 15 to 20+ years ago, or so. I remember there being public outcry about it way back in the day, but then I really haven't heard much about White Buffalo for several years. I truly would not be surprised if you counted all of the years that IC has brought...

Welcome to Iowa City, for real, they do, and at least some of the years that they have done this have been VERY expensive. No amount of logic/common sense told to the IC Council seems to get through. They are paying THOUSANDS of dollars that someone do for free.

Why would they feel the need to fly at night? As I understand it, these things do not spook bedded deer. If so, fly them during the day...on straight time, not on OT and/or DT at night. Hey...do you think White Buffalo knows this and is proposing the most costly "solution" to the numpties on...

FWIW, somewhat related...I listened to the recent Don Higgins podcast today and he made reference that he had been in Iowa last week on some primo properties is S. Iowa and over the course of the days that they were out on the land they found ZERO sheds. Don found this very odd, but the...

To me, the "casual" trespasser that I was attempting to describe is older, 50+, and lives close to the land in question. They tend to remember the good old days, back when everyone kinda traipsed all over the place looking for mushrooms, hunting, etc. They remember who used to own that...

I am intrigued, but a little wary too. Peach trees that I have had experience with tend to be fragile and prone to splitting and so forth. Do the deer eat the fruit? I know that possums and coons will, since I used to have some peaches in my yard.

That totally stinks and I am glad you were able to solve it and catch the perpetrator/neighbor. But one thing I have learned over the years is that not all neighbors hold the same opinions about trespassing, dogs(pets) on the loose, etc. I am not saying that they are right, but their opinions...

This. ^^ Just confirming what others are also sharing... We shoot 8 to 12'ish deer per year off of our place, usually 1 or 2 bucks and the rest does. Let's call 8 or 9 an average year, with say 2 bucks. In Aug. '23 we began noticing what turned out to be a significant EHD die off. Between...

My first house was more than $30K, FWIW, but I also made a fraction of the money then than I do now. See how that works? While in college I worked much more than PT hours, I worked mostly FT hours because I had to so I could afford to stay in, etc. Then, once out of college I worked every...