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A pawpaw here will never hit the ground. The coons and possums eat them all

I am talking in general - at least me, I am not going to go out and intentionally kill my does with buck fawns in hopes they stay around, anymore than I would shut an unbred queen bee in the hive she was born in and force her to breed with drones of the same gene pool or have my male dog breed...

Dang at the mass!

Is that what a land manager would really want - the buck fawns staying around your property and presenting the opportunity for inbreeding?

I doubt you would even have to drill it if you caught a decent rain. I top sow a lot of wheat and have pretty decent luck

How regularly do you have success with a longbow while hunting from the ground? That sure does look awfully open for ground bow hunting.

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 -...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Ag makes a huge difference in my area - good and bad

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...

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...