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The big problem I have with baiting as most people consider baiting - is the ease with which it can be done. A hunter can buy a $150 feeder and dump 200 lbs of corn in it for $30 and greatly increase his odds of killing a deer - in most places. Let me be clear, I consider planting food plots and...

I know three college boys went on a DMAP doe thinning hunt one afternoon. They killed 27 does in about four hours between the three of them. I asked them how far away were they shooting them - and they said from just over 100 yards to just under 400 yards. They missed nine more and lost one...

8 weeks of combined gun season between ML, straight wall, and modern gun. 22 weeks for archery/crossbow. How can you believe the “weapon does not matter”?

I can remember back around 2005. Nobody I knew of baited. Nobody I knew of had serious food plots. We did not have nearly the mature bucks that we do now - but when you are the only one around with food plots and no one was baiting - what few mature bucks we had were in my food plots. And they...

If your outfitting neighbor is getting more than his fair share of the three year old bucks on his bait piles - sounds to me like his defensive baiting is working. For defensive baiting to work, the number one goal is to out bait thy neighbor. To be the master baiter, you are going to have to...

It would take about a 1 1/4 mile of fence to do that. If I had funny money, I might think about it - not even close now😎

You are 100% correct - rut+rifle is the great destroyer of age structure. It is not crossbows. In AR, rifle hunters kill more deer the first day of season than crossbow hunters kill in five months. As far as defensive baiting goes, I would say it is very property specific. I have a 62 acre...

In AR, the crossbow harvest still has not exceeded the vertical bow harvest. Crossbow harvest is basically insignificant - about 5% of total harvest. It seems the states with the longer gun seasons have a lower percentage of archery harvest - including crossbows. In the states with the shorter...

I started baiting because of my neighbors. I have a number of ten to twenty acre neighbors. They dont have equipment or food plots. They have very poor deer habitat. They cant afford a lease, but they like to kill a few deer each year for the freezer and put the grandkids from town on the gun...

This year there was a bumper acorn crop in my area. While deer really cut back on provided feed - they never quit it. Food plots, however, were entirely ignored until very late Dec Deer and hunters in my area have both evolved. When I bought my place almost 25 years ago - nobody provided feed...

I would say it varies depending on the property. Our state differentiates the difference between supplemental feed - feeding outside of hunting - and baiting during hunting season. I could provide much anecdotal opinion to supplemental summertime feeding improving body weights - at a time when...

I was expecting to see a lot of deer and turkeys. I did see a lot of deer in southern MO out in the edge of corn fields. I saw one road kill deer from KC north. I saw two crows which was shocking. No smaller birds at all. Was really surprised by the lack of game I saw.

I would guess harvest rate in Ohio is somewhere around 25% of the total deer population - give or take a few percentage points. Same as it is in our state. In our state - cover is everywhere - so it is harder to kill our 25% - thus longer seasons.

Personally, for me - the jump from a recurve to a compound was much greater than the jump from a compound to a crossbow. I killed a LOT more deer with a compound than a recurve. The crossbow adds about 5 yards to my range - but the biggest thing it does, like 356 said, is reduce the likelihood...

Your regular state pheasant season is still open in three weeks? Would not have thought that. We saw quite a few deer feeding in corn fields southern MO - nothing in northern MO or Iowa. Also thought we would see some turkeys - but nothing. Just seemed really sterile compared to Joplin and south

I made a trip from SW AR up to KC over to Grinnell IA. Saw quite a few deer Joplin south, crows, ducks, geese, buzzards, hawks all sorts song birds, roadkill deer and coons. From KC to Grinnell IA, I saw about ten hawks, five eagles, two crows two flocks of geese - and no other living...

Honey and bees usually an easy sell but can sure be frustrating.

When I first started using trail cams, they were all white light - great night time pics. I would get multiple pics of the biggest bucks standing ten feet in front of a white light camera, feeding in a food plot, at night. But I do believe it was a learned behavior. I think bobcats and coyotes...

My son’s houseboat was one of them in that mess. Pretty handy place to stay when I go up there fishing. I bet the stripers never noticed. Docks, chicken houses, and hay barns down all over AR

I bet you have been cleaning your fish all wrong, also😂