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The time estimates and cost estimates are a shot in the dark. I did keep track of my dove planting this year on 8 acres. I had $1700 in it not including diesel and 29 hours Killed 18 doves and four pigeons. Really got my money’s worth😎

Do you have research data supporting that statement or is that your opinion?

Another reason to hate on feeding. Squirrel chewed through my plastic feeder barrel and must have over indulged. They feed under my feeders by the dozen - never had one feed from inside my feeder😎

USDA traps here free of charge. Where I was killing 150 in six months - I havent had a picture in 14 months.

Your deer look right at home👍🏻

I wouldnt argue that. AR has been doing telecheck for a long time - and to be honest - when we switched to telecheck, the overall harvest numbers did not change a lot. I think before telecheck there were a lot of hunters who didnt check because they had to drive 20 miles out of the way. Before...

The reason I was curious is because of the numbers of deer claimed - around 1,000,000 and the number of deer killed - around 140,000. Typically, most states look for an annual harvest rate of 20/25% of the total herd numbers. Without checking every state’s numbers, KY has got to be very near the...

I am sincerely interested in what KY G&F has said to you about the reason they allow baiting

I use a guy every year for some herbicide and seeding work. I would like to have a rig like his myself - but too much money for personal use. He can spray gly, switch out the hopper, and spread seed right back over the same area

Out bait thy neighbor and kill them early😎

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...