Recent content by Ikeman

I wish prices would come down around here. Anything within 3 hours of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex is still climbing. The area just has too many transplants with California money driving up prices. I am utterly astounded by prices in the area I grew up these days. Prices are so high, I won’t...

My company doesn’t compensate me for days pulled for jury duty… and the state pays basically nothing, $60 a day. Unless someone is willing to personally compensate me for the lost income, or pay the bills it causes me to miss, then they have no place judging my desire to get out of it. Sent...

I just had to block Matt on the old forum. I used to be a lot more active back then, and he was just impossible to have discourse with. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Do you really think that Matnic has it in him to remain civil or to consider someone else’s perspective….? I don’t think that level of humility remains in him. (If it ever did) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My move for jury duty has always been to ask “is capital punishment an option for misdemeanors?” Works like a charm. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I feel like my dad has a similar situation with his place. It is mostly open pasture, but the back 13 acre corner has a good size creek that acts as a connector for much larger patches of cover. He is kind of the central connector. He realized that since such a small piece of his place could be...

As to the “crossbow” conversation… I think if someone is fit and healthy, they should be restricted to a vertical bow. If someone has had an injury, or has reached an age where they can’t reliably draw a bow… we should ABSOLUTELY accommodate them with the crossbow. Some of the older “disability”...

My buddy smoked the shoulder of the last sow I killed for his Super Bowl party… it was delicious. Just know that there is no medium rare for wild pork… hit proper temps, and you are fine. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I grew up hunting west Texas in mesquite tree country. Tallest tree you could find was maybe 20 feet to the tops. (other than narrow strips (2-3 trees wide) of cottonwoods in the river bottom) We had brushed in archery boxes at the best feeders, and rifle boxes 150 or so yards away. In some...

I picked up a couple of these cross body slings a couple years ago for backpacking hunts. I love them. If you are traveling any long distance, having the rifle stay fully upright, and never slipping off your shoulder, is invaluable. https://a.co/d/0fkV7cJi Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We have more than enough pigs around here to scratch that night hunting itch. It gets REAL fun when you add thermal optics in. Thermal night hunting with a good AR is about the only real way to remove enough pigs to affect the surrounding population… unless you hire professional trappers...

You confuse comparison to equivalency… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think that line of thought only holds up in areas where planting food is fairly easy. In my area, in my soils, we have had a 75% rate of total season failure our food plots. The last 3 plots that I planted (1 spring, and 2 fall, 1-1.5 acres per planting) ended up going 50-70 days after...

Total between my parents and Aunt is 75 acres. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Excellent description. The change is absolutely possible across generations without transporting animals…. But a healthy doe can drop fawns for as long as 15 years according to some senescence studies. That means that any “less than desirable” epigenetics she had at her birth will affect fawns...