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As a landowner and hunter in a CWD zone, I have worked closely with the Missouri Department of Conservation, and have invited them to speak at our coop meetings. While nobody likes having CWD in their area, our deer herds are looking good for 2024. The 2023 special CWD area firearms season and...

The 20g is a modified (per ammo recommendation for TSS) and the 12g is full. The 12g at 40 yards was much tighter, so it’s now really apples to apples.

I am using the Muddy Matrix. On demand video quality is good, and the solar keeps it running. In DVD mode if the SD card is full it will overwrite the oldest files (you will still have access to them online). Cost for cell service is $120/year for unlimited pictures and 100 on-demand videos. You...

I agree that the extra money is not worth it, and I have been happy with the Long Beard XR. I bought the TSS with some Cabela’s cards from Christmas so I could say, “I’ve tried it.” So far, no turkey have avoided the XR’s impact in the eleven years I have owned the Tri-Star. For that matter, the...

Monday April 15 is the start of Missouri’s Turkey Season. My turkey gun in a Tri-Star Viper Max (12g, 3 1/2”). Historically I have used Winchester Long Beard XR in 3 1/2”, but this year I am trying Federal TSS 3”. I patterned at 20, 30, 40 and 50 yards. The right is the TSS, the center is the...

My trapping efforts become field fertilizer on the back edge of the 10 acre NWSG EQIP field. I, nor my neighbors, have ever smelled them, for which I am thankful. The remains are generally are eaten within 5 days by the buzzards, eagles, hawks, owls and occasional coyote or dog. The nearest...

There are two sides to this issue, and the expanded use of drones and thermal detection complicate matters. As a landowner, I support the challenges and believe probable cause or reasonable suspicion should be the minimum thresholds for trespass by a law enforcement officer. My law enforcement...

Here in Missouri residents can trap and dispatch raccoons and other predators year round if they are causing damage to plans or livestock. We have lost chickens to raccoons (on camera) and will trap around the barn and coop as needed. It has only been in the past two years that the trapping...

I pulled my traps last night and will be boiling and dipping them for storage. I will still run a couple of traps around the chicken coop should the need arise, but for now the season has ended with seventeen predators removed this season.

For those in NW Missouri, the first meeting of the River North Prescribed Burn association is this Tuesday (April 9) at 6:30 pm in Ray County. For more information go to the River North facebook page.

When we first moved to KC (2000’ish) my teenage daughters wanted to go “to the Mall.” My one and only Bannister Mall experience was as you described. A few years later I went to the one (and only) “Gun Show” at one of the abandoned mall stores. That was a rough part of town, and a far cry from...

Thanks! The cancer is in remission for which I am grateful. We are about 35 miles north of KC and just east of I-35. I see red cedar as highly invasive for this part of the state. In the seven years we have lived here, we have removed hundreds of cedars. Those remaining grow about 2’ per...

I used 200 yards of the cedars cut last week for a cover barrier for the north blind. Originally I was planning to plant a switchgrass barrier this spring, but needed someplace for the cedars, and decided this might be a good “one year” plan. This pretty much allows a south or east wind access...

The reactive targets for 22 LR work fine and mine is over 10 years old. I repaint mine each year and it is serving me well. For larger calibers I use 1/2" Steel targets. The one I have has held up to 308 and 30/06 lead (not steel) bullets just fine. I like the round ones with the two "ears" for...

One more this morning as the season winds down. 15 coons and 2 possums. Nothing like last year’s 100–but the results support how trapping has brought balance back to this small area (I am trapping on just 20 of the 85 acres). I still have ‘coons and ‘possums on camera, so what has been trapped...