Recent content by Turkey Creek

In terms of the Iowa area having poorer buck quality when the tags went from 2-1 there are alot of things that come into play where that does actually become a reality. Hunting approach by the hunters, increase in demand on the landscape for enough quality food to grow the same size bucks due to...

Find a Christmas tree seller near you and see if you can interest them in a few of your 6' ones when you go to thin them. You would have to cut them at a time that might not be optimal, but might be a nice little shot of cash.

I agree I have become a consistent wear of chaps and a helmet. Damn plastic belt buckle on my chaps just cracked the other day and now it pops open at times. No way to replace the belt, but it does have suspender snaps, though I think suspenders would get hung up on brush alot.

I would be surprised if they do, but happy to be wrong. Their entire business model revolves around the concept of showing you who owns what. If they marked everything as private they would put themselves out of business. I have talked to one of the owners of OnX a couple of times as we have a...

All the ones I have ever clicked on that say trust still show you the owner and their "tax address" which is where the owner resides.

My guess is no, its public information anyone can get from the county office. Probably better to just put up signs that say No Hunting Allowed

I am not sure if they still have it but Nebraska was nice enough a number of years back to implement a any season buck tag. It cost more than a pick your season tag, but I liked it. I would rather archery hunt than rifle hunt, but if muzzleloader season rolled around in December sometimes I...

Introducing the next tree dude! Benjamin Alexander B. was born last night at around 8pm. Long delivery that ended in a C-section but mom and baby are doing great today. I love this picture........ longshoreman who is about ready to thump you on the head for interrupting his nap!! 😂

I have some old cedar fence rows that I have left intact for that purpose as well as screening for when I walk to stands. Unfortunately the spots I would like to affect movement on now would take 10 years or more to build a living fence.

I have one of those spots! This year I watched a group of does and fawns go through a deep ditch full of obstacles when they could have walked another 20 yards and went on a drive lane through an open gate, which I have countless deer on camera doing. I went and looked and there was a visible...

No they are pretty consistent with previous years. Our biggest issue is that we have a quite a few trees from last year that we need to move. We went from the dead of Winter to Summer in about 2 weeks last Spring, typical for Kansas weather, but catching us off guard more than usual as it was...

I have necropsied a number of coyote stomachs before just to see what they had been eating. I never thought about that, but it makes sense that if domesticated dogs need to take medication to control heartworm that wild canines would be infected most of the time.

This was a first for me. 😁 Set a coyote trap where I could see it from my dining room window. Damn thing had mange worse than the last one I caught here at my place. May never catch a healthy one here.

Looks like I am going to have a one eyed buck roaming my place again. Doesn’t seem like an old deer, must have thought he was tougher than the old guys!

One of my issues is a large open area that has a NWSG patch next to a food plot. They generally come out into the food plot from the West through the NWSG anywhere over a 200 yard stretch. Maybe keeping a trail mowed through it this year after I burn will train them to take the path of least...