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If you use a common factor of finding only 5 to 10 percent of the dead deer then that really puts it into a better perspective. Even if the 200 is an accurate number for the dead deer that means from 2000 to 4000 dead now and the EHD is still killing deer daily. I hate to be a doomsayer but...

I haven't had exactly this happen, but I can speak to you from your father's perspective I think. Just by way of back ground so that you will perhaps understand that I have some understanding, I will give just a little information. I currently have prostate cancer, and after surgery to remove...

So now that we have had years of over harvesting of our deer and have gotten the numbers down to a level that the IDNR has finally been allowed to reduce some seasons and doe quotas, we start hearing about something as bad or worse than the CWD which we have also confirmed this year. With...

Daver, I am on the other side of the river from Selma just about 4 miles if you take the dirt road up over the big hill or go on up river to Jeddy Carter hill. My son now lives in Douds and he got just a little more total rain than I did. I don't know where you are from Selma but you could not...

Just another update. Saturday evening from 4:15 till 5:30 I got just over 3 inches. I didn't get the wind damage that they did in and around Ottumwa but the wind did blow. Had the camper over at Rathbun and was worried but no damage there either. We had a great day on the lake on Sunday.

Lone Ranger we got right at 1 inch at my place on the south side of the river from Eldon over night. It was wonderful and while I don't have any corn or beans, my tomato plants are loving it. All of my apple trees were so stressed that they were starting to drop apples so it might have saved...

This post has brought back some memories of a class I had to take when I returned to college as the oldest person in almost every class. It was a persuasive writing class and we had to write a paper early on in the class and then spent the entire term rewriting and redoing that paper to change...

Only one real solution to your problem, start tying flies. Trout flies, pan-fish flies, bass poppers, or carp flies all will challenge you and lead to hours of fun both tying and fishing. With space being an issue every thing you would need can fit in a duffel bag or I use and old brief case...

I live clear down in southern Iowa near Ottumwa and have never had any cable service. I have an high gain grid style antenna and get many channels in HD. I pickup both 8 and 13 from DesMoines along with there other affilates. I get an old move channel from there also, THIS, and several PBS...

I just did a quick check and after 134 days of continous deer seasons, starting September 15th, and just 2 days remaining there are still 23,872 left over antler-less tags available.

I have to agree with the person who said the people here only represent a very small portion of those who hunt deer in Iowa, so even if we do make the effort to not kill as many does it has a very small effect. There are about 400,000 licenses sold in Iowa to over 300,000 hunters so how can a...

I read your article and am glad to see you express the same thoughts that I have been writing on here for several years. Thank you for forwarding the message to others that don't read things here! I will take a couple of small exceptions with your statements, however. Many people use the...

Last Sunday there was a big flock of robins all over my yard. There must have been a couple of hundred of them. I wasn't sure if they had already came back or just never left for the winter. I think that they picked every berry from all the crab and Bradford pear trees. I am also concerned...

If you file any kind of profit and loss schedule F or C then you can use the fence as an expense there. I don't think you can itemize it other wise. It would be like costing out the fence in the back yard of you house in town, some people "might" list it as a property improvement but then...

The very simplest of answers to the original question is the deer population peaked in the mid 2000s because that is when we started killing record numbers of deer and more importantly record numbers of does.:thrwrck: When our antler-less deer harvest became almost 70 percent of the total...

Just a couple of questions for you. First of all how in the world can any one claim to "manage THEIR deer herd" with out a high fence around THEIR property? You can certainly manage the land and create habitat and the dreaded food plots but, like Lone Ranger says, you can't possibly manage a...

So if I understand this correctly, if I was driving down the street and saw a coyote standing in your co-workers drive way I could stop and shoot it and then just leave my gun in the truck and walk over and pick it up in their front yard. Is that what they are sticking to their guns about? How...

How in the world do you think the Wentzl brothers gained their reputation? By conducting drives or slow pushes for bow hunters in some of the western states, where it had not been heard of before, so they became famous and then moved to Iowa to continue the same thing in Southern Iowa.

I see this as a potential problem, especially IF bow hunting with a bow license is allowed during the gun seasons. You would have people taking a bow and a shotgun into the stand or blind with them and using which ever is most convenient for the shot. There is a great potential for abuse of the...

I just thought of another thing. What happens when they call in a harvest report with a 1st season tag and a 2nd season date? Will the reporting system flag that and require a visit from a local CO? Sounds like instant tickets to me!