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I’ll be damned - me too. Just finished my worlds billfish slam of all nine species in 2024👍

Watching the trackers work was the most amazing thing I have ever seen related to hunting. Us US hunters are at the bottom of the skill level compared to African trackers. If a hunting safari is in your future, I would suggest you go somewhere besides South Africa to experience a more classic...

Put up my fish feeder today - i guess that is baiting😎

In addition to my frontier 84 and 60” models, I bought a new 60” Howse in 2007. It doesnt look like much - but still going strong with nothing but blade changes

Wish I would have known you were going. Could have looked up some professional hunter buddies of mine from Zimbabwe. They usually stay at my place between DSC and SCI - but since DSC is now in Atlanta - I was too far out of the way.

I did a little research to answer my own questions. Michigan does have a problem. Hunter numbers have declined by over 33%. Deer numbers are increasing. 58,000 deer car collisions. 1700 people injured. Many folks on this forum forget that dept of natural resources have the responsibility to...

Michigan total deer harvest has fallen from 300,000 to 220,000 over the past five years. Anyone have a clue the reason for this. Are there that much fewer hunters where they arent killing as many deer, fewer deer - or a combination of both? Something else I have noticed among my era of hunters...

We ha year round predator trapping on private land with a free permit. One of the best things our g&f did - for those who wanted to do it. I called them, went to their headquarters, and generally tried to worry them to death - cant say that it was because of me - but they finally did it. We can...

I have about decided other bees are trying to rob this hive. There are hundreds of them fighting in front of the hive with many dead ones

I was once trying to figure out exactly where most of the bucks were coming into a food plot - different where the does came in. I put four cameras - one each on each quarter of a two acre food plot. It was pretty eye opening the difference in pics. One mature buck was only in 1/4 quarter of the...

Turkeys dont usually hit the feeders much here - but that four inches of ice and sleet really brought them in. A day after it melted, they were gone. Have had one lone gobbler at a feeder since, and dont think he was feeding since just one pic

Abstract Using a prion amplification assay, we identified prions in tissues from wild pigs (Sus scrofa) living in areas of the United States with variable chronic wasting disease (CWD) epidemiology. Our findings indicate that scavenging swine could play a role in disseminating CWD and could...

I have some lookin like they are gonna abscond. I hate these winter warm spells when the bees get active and not much blooming

Pruned the rest of my peaches and started on the muscadines

Around our place - Sept and first half of Oct - bait. Rest of season, acorns or food plots - especially for mature bucks

I have the minerals and water is not a problem. Three ponds, two year round springs - and a slough that never goes dry.

100% truth. I have a bunch of those guys with 20 acres and less - and no habitat - and they kill more deer than we do on 400 acres. I didnt start baiting to kill bigger bucks - I started baiting to try to keep deer that spent most of their time on my land, from going to my neighbors land. I dont...

My summer feed is 18% protien. I see more, larger antlered deer - but we have more bucks. I cant say I see an improvement at top end. It is much easier to quantify weight than antlers

I am just trying to provide a different non biased viewpoint. As long as it is legal to bait, people are going to bait. From what a lot of folks on this forum say, even in areas where it is illegal to bait, people are going to bait. My point is - since baiting is going to happen, make as much...

Just to be open minded, which many arent - standing corn with corn still in the husk can develop aflatoxin, particularly when exposed to warm, humid conditions in the field or during storage, like we have in the south and mid south. My feeder locations are a great aid in reducing nest predator...