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Nothing this morning, so we moved to public for our afternoon session. Late December, 60+ degrees and hungry mosquitoes. Unreal, but I’m glad to be out with my son.

I’ll be picking up the one from deer camp that has been aging for six weeks on Thursday.

First day of muzzleloader season here in Missouri. My son is hunting the north blind, and I am in the West blind with a slight southeast wind. We’re both looking to take either a doe or a buck, should the right one come by.

Today we will be scouting some new-to-me public land about 15 miles from the farm, with a goal of hunting there tomorrow and Sunday afternoon. The property provides 1000 acres of new conservation access (meaning, the state is in the early phases of implementing a master plan to improve hunting...

You do know about that naughty and nice stipulation?

Landowner Deer Cooperative: 5-Year and going strong As we enter the sixth year of our landowner cooperative, the momentum is tangible. The most encouraging feedback this year came from two landowners who independently reported seeing higher-quality bucks, while several others shifted their focus...

We habitat junkies always get interesting gifts that would cause most city folks to roll their eyes. This year I got a new outhouse to replace the one that died after many seasons (and being left out for a year!) and new Muck boots!

Merry Christmas!

Congratulations on a great harvest and sharing of your wonderful weekend of hunting. It will be fun to get an age on that buck. The Osage Orange is not a preferred browse on ur farm, but the deer do eat it about this time of year. One day the ground will be filled with 5” to 6” fruit, and the...

I am looking forward to setting up what will likely be my last deer rifle, a Howa 6.5 Creedmore, with a can. Suppressors should be OTC items as in much of Europe, given their hearing and community benefits. Hoping that day will come soon, so prices will go down and companies will do ever more...

This particular hunt was on Andy Clay's Farms, so I want to be sure to give credit where credit is due. We do host several new hunters on our property each year, including an 18 year old who will be doing his first firearms hunt (with a muzzy, to boot) this week. To Andy, me and others who host...

I'll be doing burns at the cabin property and the farm....I really need to do a growing season burn, but I may put that off until 2027 when I am retired!

There was some mapping at the Voyagers Wolf Project facility in Ely, but it was historic, not current. Sadly, some bad actors use live mapping to poach. We used to be able to monitor tagged bear movement in Missouri, but no more.

The podcast from the Arcadia Valley (Ironton, MO) Senior Deer Hunt dropped this morning!

By the end of camp the harvest total was: At Camp: * One button buck * Two does * One Anderson Sliding glass blind window At one of the landowners home properties (same county): * Two bucks * Two does Here is the podcast Bill Cooper recorded during deer camp.