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Good job getting started on the burning. The weather was perfect to burn today, but my wife and I had to split firewood.

I currently own a 5xxxE tractor, and the capacity is significantly better, but one moves from a compact utility tractors with hydrostatic transmissions to a whole different platform. The 5 series is more of an Ag tractors (which I needed, as I am planting 70 acres per year) and can not be had...

To echo what you have said, the 3R seems like it would do what is needed. Having a nearby dealer is essential, from parts and advice to service and repairs (although my 3 series did not require any over 5 years). I really liked my 3025E and miss it often. It fit on my trailer, and I moved it...

Congratulations, Peeps! 212 days for me, but who's counting :-)

Yes, they are good to eat. Older boars and sows are best slow cooked or used as sausage. Younger ones are very nice for loins and hams (brine them!). Trichinosis and brucellosis are killed off at a cooking temperature of 145 (lower if longer, such as sous vide) and, since I like port done, 165...

The 3038E is a great tractor, but please go with the 3033R and get the extra lifting capacity. I had the E series and it would BARELY lift a 5’ Tar River No-Til Drill. The 33 HP is not the limiting factor, plus there are plug in systems that will give your 33 HP 38 HP if you ever needed mor HP...

I listened to their podcast Saturday, and doubt if many listeners were enlightened—I sure wasn’t. First, I wish Matt and Adam would not take every opportunity to throw daggers at their former employer. This is a common theme, and will not serve them well in the future. Second, they pretty much...

Thank you for the additional information. As others have chimed in, this is not likely the place you willl find success with mature deer (or success period). The bottom might best be used for a doe bedding area—at least that is what the does are doing in my bottom area. As you already noted...

Yesterday's pictures from the SpyPoints had bobcat, coyote, dogs, a doe and the first buck in some time. The Cuddebacks and StealthCams had only coyotes and dogs.

EHD was rough on several counties. I know of only one found in our creek, but I've heard of some areas were the stench was prevalent for miles along the creeks and rivers. I think that was in Worth county (?).

Hard to say what is the reason, Bill. Grundy, DeKalb, Daviess and Gentry are the NW counties with a balanced antlerless/buck harvest. Grundy, 935 antlerless/834 bucks was the best of the northwest!; DeKalb 547 antlerless/550 bucks; Gentry 742/804, Daviess 1499/1381). The rest of the NW...

Private outfitters are allowed extended seasons. We have a group of 15 going through a special "off season" deal. This will be my first pheasant hunt since 1975--back when I hoped to flush one up in the cotton and grain fields of central California--and hopefully my first successful pheasant...

This outdoors person in NW Missouri is getting ready to do the annual frost seeding and some predator control. I am also looking forward to a pheasant hunt in three weeks at a large northern Missouri pheasant outfitter and working on stand placement changes based on a new master plan for our...

This ad (circa 1969-1970) notes "performance is about as efficient as a rifle" and promotes the conservation benefits of improved recovery rates due to speed and penetration.

Telemark’s recent post of King Matthias with a crossbow got me thinking. As a bowhunter, my first experience with a crossbow came in 2014—after I blew out a shoulder. At the time, I needed a medical waiver, which I gladly accepted. There was no way I was missing deer season, and no way I could...