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Great point and an interesting one. I’ve wondered the same for many years and been very vocal on this subject. Just seems insane to me that 90% of hunters in IA and IL will all agree (which doesn’t happen very often so think about that) the hunting was the best it’s ever been in that 2000-2011...

Gotcha. This is what I remember seeint on the news and assumed it was the shooters but maybe not

Thought I saw the vehicle that they were towing away was more like a van but could be wrong. Thats definitely not a 5’ ladder that’s for sure but if it was a van type vehicle than I could see it being feasible to fit it in the vehicle. I suppose it’s also feasible, probably likely, that he had...

Where r u seeing this

Sure seems like the security folks failed big time here. Be interesting to see what comes out of the investigation in to it but agree that it seems hard to believe that a shooter from an open roof top within 130 yards from a president/candidate could ever get away w this without being spotted...

Shooter was killed as was a member of the audience sounds like. Terrible. Scary!

So Dominion was obviously confident that the fraud claims against them were BS and Fox must’ve ultimately agreed? Kinda what I’m saying….every time it came down to proving something in the court of law nothing stuck

Have nev Have never been able to “square” what truly happened in 2020. On one hand I wanted, still want, to believe it was stolen. On the other, we had the president, the senate and the Supreme Court….3 out 4, 75% of all the power and yet couldn’t get anything to stick anywhere. Im left...

Why would Fox not?

I’ve kinda wrestled w the idea of allowing the DNR of any given state to acquire more land for public access idea. I think at the surface it sounds like it helps w the access problem but assuming they are buying private rec ground is it really doing anything to improve access? Say they buy a...

Yep. Agreed. They got in to an argument about their golf handicaps and who can drive it further for Gods sake……total shit show. I’ll get myself to vote for trump maybe (may just write in Vivek or Ron D) but out of 330million people or whatever in this country those are the best 2 leaders we can...

Wish IL would go to one buck as well. If you went to one buck in IL and IA and cut doe tags dramatically, would only have to do that for 2 maybe 3 years and then could go back to where it is now. Just let the herd catch up a little bit for a year or two and it would make huge difference...

Kinda replied to one of skips post w a similar thought but while all your points are 100% valid I just don’t think most of them are the root of the issue. Growing giant deer is incredibly hard. Growing a 5 year old deer regardless of the size of his rack is incredibly hard. Those statements have...

Deer numbers aren’t continuing to rise though…..just the opposite. Since 2012 they’ve done nothing but go down significantly. As Skip has said the harvest in IA is half of what it was in the 2000s. In IL you have to go back 33 years to when there were less deer vehicle accidents.

Love it! Spot on and damn I wish there were more of ya out there Skip! Much respect for you and the battle you are spearheading

Well said Skip. As always love the passion and commitment. Would just say a couple things as it relates to your post as well as the huntr podcast w Jeff Lindsey that was brought up. On your post, I would say that bc me and the folks on this board know you relatively well that as a result I’m...

Probably some truth here no doubt. Although it seems like they could find a way to do it without risking anything. Pointing out how the deer numbers are half of what they used to be in the “good ol days” and that they are choosing to not shoot does for awhile doesn’t seem super controversial or...

Yea I don’t pay close enough attention to him to know the details or to judge so I’ll take your word for it but regardless, all of the well known “celebrity” types that have thousands of hunters as an audience (vs me or your circle of 30-50 or whatever) can make a massive influence on what...

The Politicians yes, but what’s 100 times worse is that 90% of the hunting industry hasn’t realized the decline in numbers and still think they should be killing does too! Need guys like Lee Lakosky, Don Higgins, Drurys, Bowmar, etc….to really start hammering this issue and getting the masses to...

I’m listening Skip as I think we’re all searching for the “answers“…..but I can’t help but feel like 95% of your list has always been the case hasn’t it? Few if any were doing tsi in the 2000’s compared to today. Food- with popularity of food plots today vs 2000’s there HAS to be more food and...