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Awesome guys!!

Lots of good points here gentlemen... less habitat and the increased desire to shoot the biggest bucks more often definitely seem to take the cake here. I'd like to see a program that requires no more than 80% (more? less?) of a parcel be farmed... bring back the weedy, natural drainages, more...

Fooooor Suuuuure!!!

@sep0667 nice job solo! Definitely the toughest way. Here's my update (scroll down) on my recent attempt. Lots of miles :) https://iowawhitetail.com/community/threads/pheasant-hunting-access.64759/

friend of mine uses and swears by N-vision's Halo XRF - they're the best - price tag also reflects this :) https://nvisionoptics.com/product/halo-xrf/

Thought I'd post an update on my attempt to take my son out for some pheasants over his Christmas break. We tackled some public spots in Iowa, and it was some HARD hunting. Without a dog, we focused on remote spots with "tough walking". Day 1, I dropped one but couldn't find it...coasted a ways...

It's definitely become "pay to play" and it's only getting worse. The drive for bigger and bigger bucks and in higher frequency has lead to this. The "olden days" found lots more in the field, doing drives, etc etc, but not as many giants were being killed as nowadays. There is a trade-off, as...

Battery life will depend on brand, type, amount of pics sent, and signal strength. I prefer Spypoint and Moultrie Edge. I've had good luck with Reveal but they spook deer way more than the other cams. I believe a lot of problems guys complain about with cell cams are due to the SD card more than...

Awesome! Congrats to you and your dad. I was fortunate to get to experience something similar in 2009 when I took my dad bowhunting in Iowa. I filmed him shooting his biggest whitetail of his life. It's one of my fondest memories to this day, and I know your hunt will be for you guys too! :cool:

Thanks, guys... still looking to get out there over son's Christmas break. We'll figure something out :)

Awesome news!! And I'm confident we'll get even better news from ya soon.

Hi Gang, so my son has some time off from college this coming week of Thanksgiving. Since I'm tagged out in Iowa (deer), I am thinking of bringing him over to Iowa for a few days to hunt pheasants. I'm wondering if any of you might have some good pheasant property you would be willing to let us...

Hey Skip. Late to this one, but here are some of my thoughts: You got one lung based on what you described. Two lungs, and he would be toast, as you said. No lung, and you wouldn't have had the amount and type of blood you described for that far (probably not at all). If the broadhead broke off...

Awesome hunt, congrats!!

Congrats Skip! Super awesome Charlie was there with you. :cool:

I like the way Steve thinks. Hopefully he used other methods of persuasion that were not shared with the author. Anyone that doesn't understand Steve's view has not worked a day in his life. Kudos to his efforts. Now, I gotta get to working on this global satellite security system to sell him... ;)

Aging venison absolutely helps! There are a lot of "sources" you can learn more about this. Chef Milos Cihelka released some VHS tapes on cooking wild game a long long time ago and since I started doing what he recommends, the quality of venison we have has improved tremendously. Meat care and...

Right, EHD big reason too... absolutely... it takes a long time to come back from that, and coupled with those other elements, even harder... "come back" being very subjective too. Buffalo County has not had the EHD issues, and they're the best examples of smaller parcels and younger bucks...

I'll throw this thought out there too... with cell cams, it's harder and harder for bucks to make it to 5+, so that may be contributing to the overall reduction in top-enders. It's similar, IMO, to how Illinois used to be great... then outfitters bring in guys that kill the best 2 & 3 year olds...

My 2 cents on the original question... "managing does" should be done when the buck to doe ratio is out of whack or deer numbers are doing good. If you're seeing too many does for every buck you see (assuming you're a decent hunter), then shooting does keeps that sex ratio closer. A closer ratio...