If this passed my county would drop forest reserve before the ink dried. My 23 acres is all taxed as residential since I took all agriculture off it, and the only thing I plant is for wildlife. The only thing keeping my taxes under $10k a year is 8 acres of forest reserve.
Same thing I've been doing the last 2 months. Sitting in a boot waiting on a torn achilles to heal. It was kind of nice the snow held off this long, I could at least hobble around the driveway. No way I'm doing that now.
I would have more land and my neighbors' would be rich because I finally caved and paid them the outrageous numbers they want. Other than land I would be upgrading and getting more equipment.
I'm with ya. I've never bought my landowner any sex tag only a couple anterless tags, and in 26 years of deer hunting I've killed 2 bucks in one year once. I've had several multi year periods between shooting bucks. It also kind of irritates me when people call an any sex tag a buck tag. Iowa...
Some light at the end of the tunnel that was this crappy fall. The 3 biggest bucks made it through shotgun season. I had a couple other good ones show up during the rut that hopefully stick around. I'll leave cams up for another month, and hopefully some more show up.
Increasing hunter participation is the same old tired line every lobbyist uses to push this crap to increase the bottom line for their company. The only thing that has increased participation over the last couple decades was the pandemic shutdowns. Now that those are over participation is...
1. Get rid of all the new cartridges allowed during shotgun season. There was no need to change it other than to sell more guns, and start the slide towards necked cartridges in IA.
2. Get rid of Cell cams during hunting season. Off season doesn't bother me.
3. Keep politicians and lobbyists out...
I was planning on laying off the does this summer when the cams showed the vast majority of the does had 0 fawns. Then all the mature bucks I knew had survived through last year disappeared. My family eats 3-5 deer so we filled the freezer with 2 yearling bucks and a 2 year old. The worst season...
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