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    Live from the stand thread

    How regularly do you have success with a longbow while hunting from the ground? That sure does look awfully open for ground bow hunting.
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    How to Turn Old Hay Field Into Deer Habitat

    In addition to what Ben said about killing the existing vegetation in the field - which I agree with - I would have a hard time not planting a two acre food plot in that “V” from the field that extends into the woods a little bit. Food plots almst always will see at least a little deer use -...
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    Super beaver moon is up!

    A lot of folks maintain the full moon results in deer moving all night. My experience, for several years, as a federal wildlife biologist I used to assist the state biologists with they were in the area doing their abo mason parasite counts - otherwise know as “APC Shoots”. Typically, we would...
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    G&H Farms

    This is proof that all deer are not created equal. Rode by my last two apple trees with fruit still hanging. I hadnt been by there in a couple days. Picked up a few gallons of apples laying in the ground - the deer ignore the apples My garden turnip patch doing well deer been all in it...
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    Top States for Mature Buck Harvests

    I do think another thing that probably boosts the average harvested age structure in AR a lot - the observation data, gained from over 4000 hours of observation data in just my region, there were an average of 5.3 bucks seen per ten hours hunting, with 2.6 (half) of those bucks four pt or less...
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    Top States for Mature Buck Harvests

    They basically do the same thing here - the not killing the allotted tags is what lost favor with a lot of hunters, and why they drop out. But I think a hard requirement on the harvest is now a suggestion - I think they were seeing declining participation in DMAP. Herd data is gathered from...
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    Top States for Mature Buck Harvests

    Lot of hunters here got out of DMAP because of the requested doe harvest. The only thing DMAP does here that you cant legally do anyway is kill more bucks and does than state regs allow, and kill them with a rifle five months a year.
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    Top States for Mature Buck Harvests

    I have found, in my area, where our regulations are so biased to killing deer - except for our apr - thank you. Combine that with our southern heritage of hunting for food and self supportive life style - I really think a lot of our deer harvest, especially with larger acreage under one control...
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    Top States for Mature Buck Harvests

    According to a post here early, 51% of bucks harvested in iowa are 1.5 yr old. I would guess most states, a 130” 3 yr old is going down when it walks out in front of most hunters - wherever it is found. Take what you want from the advertised harvest age of bucks by state. Dismissing the fact...
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    Top States for Mature Buck Harvests

    Location is so important. I know a guy who has killed a couple 180’s - that I know of - 30 miles from me. And he isnt the only one. Thirty miles in another direction - at least a couple times in the past ten years, a buck has won the state’s big buck classic Of course, as you can see, our...
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    Do deer eat corn?

    Deer will eat my sunflowers at all stages. They will also eat the seed heads. Seven acres is not enough sunflowers at my place to overwhelm them.
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    Top States for Mature Buck Harvests

    how old are those bucks? I can have 5.5 year old bucks score 150 and they might live to 8.5 and score 100. Our best out of 20, 5.5 year old deer will not ever make 170. Are you sure your deer have it in them? I am not talking about one deer five years ago that was a purebred freak - I am...
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    Top States for Mature Buck Harvests

    Ag makes a huge difference in my area - good and bad
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    Top States for Mature Buck Harvests

    What would you say would be the main difference between Native’s acreages - which are not big tracts of land - and your place? He doesnt really control enough land to protect some of his bucks, while you are in a better position to do that with considerably more land. He always seems to have a...
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    Are the glory days of deer hunting coming to a close?

    Of course everywhere is different. I have been places a deer track was hard to find. If you were hunting a place where it would be very realistic to kill a buck and a doe almost any morning or evening in an hour - would you feel like you had accomplished something - or the fact that a seven...
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    Are the glory days of deer hunting coming to a close?

    I do agree with that - I have a 62 acre tract 8 miles from the house that draws from a whole different herd of deer. Every other year, their will be a good one show up - but you better kill it early before gun season opens. I am in an 800 acre wrp lease where we duck hunt. It is about 160 acres...
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    Are the glory days of deer hunting coming to a close?

    Last saturday evening, when my herd of grand daughters were in - and my son and daughter in law, and my wife - all at deer camp. It poured rain almost all day saturday. Saturday afternoon, we killed one old warrior 9 pt, another 5 yr old 8 pt; a 4 yr old 8 pt, a 2 yr old 8 pt the 7 yr old in the...
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    Are the glory days of deer hunting coming to a close?

    Or pounding your head in the grass because you just spent millions and wasnt what you thought. 640 acres means at the very center of the property where it is furthest from a neighbor means it is 1/2 mile - about a 15 min leisurely walk - in any direction - to be on someone elses property. What...
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    Are the glory days of deer hunting coming to a close?

    You can have both, you know - but maybe not your area
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    New Truck?

    The reports on the chevy 1500 baby duramax 3.0 seem to be overwhelmingly positive. I am getting closer to my last truck and right now, it is at the top of my list
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