Recent content by Steve Bartylla

Well, not many have as truly great a group of ppl supporting their work, for so dang many years, either. It seriously is the very least you all deserved in return. I'm not being modest or anything silly like that. It's just the simple truth of the matter.

Satchmo, it's sincerely been my pleasure. Most all of you have done so much more for me than you realize. It's sincerely the least I could have done. I'm still trying. I'm just doing it in a more focused way that doesn't have the tendency of taking up more and more and more time. I'm trying to...

Sorry, I'm at the point where I just can't do everything I need/want to anymore. So, as much as I love spending time on the forums, keeping tabs on so many of your grounds and simply BSing with friends, I've decided to shift that time to my own Facebook page (just kicking out a Tip of the Day...

This times 1000000000000. I mean, seriously, if you are in a position that you need to choose between spending that $ on anything important and deer, go the important route every time.

Best quote I ever got was from Dr Karl Miller. There are 3 distinct ruts in SC, as many as 9 in TX....They all share the same moon, don't they? If you want to prove or disprove the moon's impact on the rut, it's actually super easy. Look at multiyear fetus backdating studies from road killed...

Words of true wisdom right there

G&G, making mistakes only makes us human. The key is doing what you've done, learn from them, try to fix the problem and do your best not to repeat them

Belated grats, chummer! Always special when one is able to tag an upper ender for the area! They're often 23455432872345 times the accomplishment of tagging a P&Y in areas sporting a good number of book bucks.

They look like rubbed spots to me. Happens a lot with good racked bucks on the back of their lower neck and shoulders. The rub bare spots when working scrapes and such...Back side could be from crawling under stuff, like a barbed wire fence for example.

And I would have too, when I was young and stupid (talking me here, not you). Immature bucks do the same. Mature bucks are far more like that old bull in the joke about the young bull telling the old one that he's going to run down the hill and breed a cow. The old one replies that he's going to...

Grats Jordon! That's great

Temps may have nothing at all to do with when does come into estrus or if a buck will try to tend her if he smells her, but they do definitely have an impact on how much bucks move during daylight to find them. Think of it this way. Would you want to run around all day in high 70ies, while...

For what it's worth, I think you are correct, in that one can train deer to fear nearly anything through negative reinforcement and train them to accept most things through positive reinforcement. In those regards, I see them as being very similar to dogs.

They reinforced the foot area and got rid of the booties a couple years ago. Full disclosure, I am a paid pro staffer for them. That said, I honestly do love the product and I went after them, not the other way around.

As Dr Karl Miller once told me, SC has 3 distinct peak breeding phases spread over the state and TX has 7-9 areas with different peak breeding dates. Each of those areas shares the same moon, don't they? Even if one can somehow rationalize that with the moon controlling breeding dates, the quote...