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While on the surface you suggestion might sound good, in the long run it would be horrible for deer hunting. If you shoot only does for 2 or 3 years to let the little bucks grow up where does the next generations of little bucks come from. Any male dominated population can't stay viable for long...

Some people obviously aren't intelligent enough to know that you can "party hunt" while sitting in a stand with not a single soul closer than a 15 minute drive to their stand. Party hunting has nothing to do with groups or drives or pushing timber. Where does skill or ethics enter into the...

Are those things better fried or just boil em up? Party hunting actually started back when there were very few deer and we had to draw a tag. About 75 or 80 percent of those tags back then were for bucks only and there were darn few bucks. To get an any sex tag was like the Golden Ticket to...

For late ML season you can use either a ML or a bow as a legal weapon for your late ML tag. The catch is you can't use a ML as a legal weapon during the bow season, so if you have a bow tag in your possession the ML is not a legal weapon. The rational is that a criminal could shoot a deer with...

I don't like this season for a number of reasons, and yes I do think that there are bucks shot during this season. However that is not the main reason, I really feel that we are shooting too many does and whether the IDNR or any one else thinks so I think that we are heading for real problems in...

I am not sure how much or hard you will use what ever saw you get, but for more casual use I don't think you could go wrong with the Polan. I have one that is about 5 years old, the Polan Pro I think, with an 18" bar and it does every thing I want or need it to do. There are lots of better and...

Not trying to pile on or pick on you, but I don't understand how after seeing this stuff, you can come on here to complain about a bad season but hesitated to call the authorities! Whether you thought you might get a bad response or not you should always make the call to the CO, to TIP, and the...

I just had a thought that may clarify this question for some people. Once again I am not saying that hunting over food plots is illegal. The only thing I am trying to convey is why I believe that food plots fit the definition of baiting. If you plant a food plot of 3 acres of soybeans and care...

At least in my case you are "Preaching to the choir." I have been talking about over harvest of does for a long time. Our harvest has gone down from 211,000 to 142,000 last year with a much lower harvest almost a certainty for this year. So far bow hunters and early ML hunters have only...

I have for several years expressed my dislike of using rifles for deer hunting partly because I live in the effected tiers of counties, and partly because I contend that we are killing too many does already. I found an interesting bit of information on the IDNR site. On the harvest by county...

I did say that every thing is open to interpretation. In many deer hunting states baiting if perfectly legal and traditionally accepted. As just a distinction, the DNR does not plant food plots on public lands for hunters to hunt over. They plant these plots as additional over winter food...

“Bait” means grain, fruit, vegetables, nuts, hay, salt, mineral blocks, or any other natural food materials, commercial products containing natural food materials, or by-products of such materials transported to or placed in an area for the purpose of attracting wildlife. Bait does not include...

Any more I would be had pressed to do that well at 100 feet off hand with open sights, they sure get blurry some times. Good shootin, makes you wonder what you could do with sticks, don't it? :rolleyes:

If it is during a season and if I have just fired a shot or two, I usually swab the barrel with a Knight or Rusty Duck patch and dry with clean patches. Then when the season is done or it will be a couple days until hunting again I will take it apart use HOT( boiling) soapy water to wash...

Maybe we could get a count of the type of rifles used by the early Muzzle loader hunters, and especially those who were successful. It might prove interesting! I did not hunt this season this year because of a planed trout fishing trip to Bennett Springs and I needed the chance to use the 2...

Just as a heads up, are you aware that there is a antler less gun season that will be going on Thanksgiving weekend? Also bow season ends on that Friday because shotgun season opens on Saturday 12-05 so you will only have 5 days to hunt. Not meaning to discourage you but just let you know that...

Well I guess that maybe I am not so deprived( not depraved) as I thought because I don't have cable or sat tv. I don't really watch any of those videos any more either. I have been preaching about all this horn envey for years now. The deer, elk, and turkey hunting videos have pretty well ran...

I keep everything unstrung, even the old Pearson recurve I just got. Every thing else are wooden selfbows. I did learn a valuable lesson a few years back on a bear hunt in Minn. I had made a heavy hickory bow, about 72 pounds, to hunt with. The first night out it was just misting a little rain...

A young lady, here at work, just bought a Parker SideKick from the new Bass Pro store in Altoona. Got it as a package with sight, biscuit rest, quiver, string silencers, sling, and they even tied on a string loop for her release. It is adjustable from 30 to 40 pounds and several draw lengths...

Boy, you wouldn't think that two arrows that missed every thing except the butt end of a deer target could randomly come so close to each other. That is what you get for "PRACTICING" any way Jack. Better buy some more arrows!!