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The best 3 deer hunters I'm aware of don't have social media and outside of their family or neighbors, nobody ever sees what they kill.

I found 2 130" 10 pointers dead this year, my best guess was fighting. I pulled the last of my cameras on Thanksgiving, but between November pictures and bucks I saw during gun season, I'd guess a full 25% of our bucks were busted up in some form or another. I don't think a lot of people realize...

I meant as two separate issues when talking about new calibers getting introduced. Some people think it means more people end up getting hurt, while others think everyone is going to get a 375 Cheytac and start pounding bucks from the next county.

This has absolutely zero to do with the type of weapon and everything to do with somebody not knowing their target and what's beyond it, plain and simple. It's incredibly frustrating to keep seeing this argument pop up. It's almost as farcical as the "people will now be shooting deer out to a...

They will get what they deserve when people on Instagram stop giving them likes and buying their "patented products" like their nose button (already invented) or things like Josh's grandpa inventing rattling techniques that were in Outdoor Life 30 years ago. Stop buying shit from anyone that...

it's really hilarious how people will get upset about the "orange army" but not about the fact there's both a youth and adult early muzzleloader season in October with weapons that can shoot over 500 yards (and the same people can do that in late December over food sources.) And the same people...

If I were emperor for a day, my first act would be to refund everyone who bought into the "Red Moon" app. The rut happens at literally the same time every single year, and we know from deer with collars what they're doing in october. The Poachmar's aren't shooting big deer when an app tells them to.

Cameras on normal food sources for this time of year have turned up below average results at our place in NE IA, but I'm chalking it up to the acorn crop and not worrying. I left to head into the office for a few hours the other day around 11AM in the suburb that I live and stopped and counted...

Turkey hunting this spring, I walked a quarter mile down a logging road on ridgetop and saw 9 raccoons out and about at 11AM. Sure seems like there's way more than usual.

There was a Don Higgins podcast I listened to while doing some yard work in the last month (can't remember the episode), and he made the point that unless you have years of identifiable trail camera pictures of a buck, you're never really know unless you get a tooth aged. I thought that made a...

I've thought about putting together a 35 Whelen bolt action instead of toting a 45-70, but I honestly can't say that I've killed a deer at over 100 yards (or had an opportunity I would take) in a long time so it seems like a waste of money. At this point, it's sort of pointless to even have...

The one thing that needs to be taken into account here is the changing of the guard that's going to come in the next 10-15 years in hunting, not just in the Midwest, but across the entire country. WI has a system set up for citizens to propose changes and vote on those at the yearly spring...

Thank goodness somebody finally admitted it has nothing to do with "high power rifles" and "bottle neck cartridges' and is much more about the actual timing of using firearms ;)

Red oak is fairly cyclical but yes, it's been fairly depressed price wise for a couple of years, the tariffs on China were probably a bigger factor than anything lately to be honest. It would surprise most people knowing how much timber from the Midwest ends up over there that doesn't even come...

Walnut has been about as consistent as anything lately, and barring a total economic collapse, white oak should continue to do well. Up until very recently, white oak was outperforming red oak (my dad's a timber buyer and I keep an eye on prices out of curiosity from growing up around it.0

I think there's probably some factors in play that are outside of overhunting, whether that's habitat, changes in agricultural practices, or disease like West Nile Virus (lots of evidence pointing to that being an issue in ruffed grouse.) But I also do think right now, especially with the spike...

Nutrition and not having gun seasons begin until December are honestly the two biggest reasons. I do think Bill Winke recently made a really great point on the Hoyt Bowhunting podcast that just overall across the country, we're seeing bigger deer in general because people are getting more...

Iowa has great bucks because the gun seasons happen well after the rut more than any other reason by far, and going to necked rifle cartridges wouldn't change that.

Zone 9 Non-Resident had leftover gun either sex for the second year in a row, which really surprised me (I think 25 last year and 4 this year). There was a point 10 or 15 years ago it was a given that you had to have a point to draw a buck tag and that's really not been the case lately. Almost...

soft woods for construction are right now, most hardwoods, especially red oak, are still in the bottom of their current cycle.