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I just answered two e-mails, and I did included my personal views and opinions. I did cheat a little because I wrote a couple of pages to the first young man who sent a pretty complete list of questions. Then when I received the second email I just sent him the same reply because his questions...

I must follow the lead of Shovelbuck. I have never shot a deer because I was worried that someone else might shoot it. I have only once made any kind of excuse for shooting a deer. It was a fawn that ran behind a doe that I killed. The same slug hit the fawn and broke it's leg. I hunt DEER...

We always just put a hole in a piece of paper and then focused on an object through that hole with the paper at arms length. Then slowly bring the paper to your face while still focusing on the object and the paper will come to the dominant eye.

You may already be aware of it, but on the IDNR site there is a ton of information under the different years trends in hunting. Such as the rapid reduction of the total harvest numbers over the last 6 years, and the big drop in the car deer accidents per million miles driven over the same time...

Different thing that I have read say that in a tree stand you want more of a backdrop than anything else. Also I think that there are many more deer killed from the ground now or from 12 foot ladder stands as many hunters get older like me, so I don't see the need to be 30 feet up a tree. With...

Wonderful in so many ways. Wonderful story, pictures, and experiences. It is truly a Wonderful World!

Very nice bird and an excellent picture! You can always just roam around the old home stead all dressed out and just take more pictures, but remember to post them.

I'm sure you probably already have, but you should check to make sure that you can have them for free. I had 2 replaced and asked REC if I could have the old ones and they said no, but I could buy them if I really wanted them. They wanted $300 each, if I remember correctly. When we built the...

I was at the Ottumwa meeting along with 4 DNR people and 3 other deer hunters. THAT WAS IT!! In our discussion we went over most of the things already listed. We talked about not being able to feed wild life (deer) for any reason, mainly trail cams from some time in August through February. We...

Alright I have read every post and surprisingly enough do have some opinions. I do not think that all or even most NR hunters are evil or NR land owners. I have hunted elk in New Mexico and black bears in Minnesota as well as fished in several different states so the road goes both ways. I don't...

It is truly a shame that we have both allowed and encouraged such commercialization of deer hunting that we now have such issues with cheating and bending rules and out right breaking laws just for the sake of the largest set of horns that can be had. As Pogo said once "We have seen the enemy...

That surly can't be the reason, because they are already MY deer because it is MY land that I hunt.:rolleyes: I don't really need their acceptance for myself because I am already legal, but there might be other hunters who would enjoy being in the wood enjoying nature who don't shoot a compound...

I honestly don't know the answer. Does a compound bow need to be cased for transport? Again I don't know and saw nothing about in the regulations. Does it help to have a permit to carry weapons?

Even though I don't want to keep perpetuating this topic and I am qualified with an old man arthritic permit to use a crossbow next year, I would ask for some clarification. Every thing that I find defines archery as a bow shooting an arrow at a target. A bow consists of two limbs with a riser...

Ok if you look at those numbers that shows that of all the deer harvested 4% of them were harvested with a crossbow. Read that again only 4% were harvested with a crossbow out of well over a MILLION deer and that is going to ruin deer hunting in Michigan. I have some other data from Kentucky and...

I live next to a large public hunting area and this happens a lot with both coyote hunters and coon hunters. Several years ago I watched 4 coon hunters come up to the fence dividing my property from the neighbors. They were on the neighbors land and they lifted their 3 dogs over my fence and...

EHD is not passed from deer to deer and the stats showing higher numbers of dead deer in areas of higher deer populations is very logical. But now a question? If you have an area with 100 deer and the midges bite 20%then 20 deer will probably die. Now another area with 10 deer and again midges...

Well I believe I am a majority of 1 on this. I would pick mushrooming. I look around some for sheds while hunting mushrooms but don't ever go strictly shed hunting maybe because deer horns don't mean that much to me. I have never had a trail cam and would much rather see the deer live while...

I was really going to let this topic go away, but the hypocrisy of this statement just hit me wrong. By commercial interests are you meaning Matthews, or Bowtech, or Hoyt that are attempting to create a new market for their contraptions? Perhaps you are referring to all the other "contraptions"...

Just like compound bows have done. In 1984 a very fast compound was 225 fps.