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Correct. ^^ After about mid-August I see essentially no activity on our mineral sites. They are full of leaves and untouched in that time frame in my experience. Honestly, I don't even bother trying to cover them up, etc, but I also don't hunt anywhere close to them either.

Been there, sorry to hear it.

Bingo. ^^ In a nutshell, he is prioritizing money in his pocket now v. later...where later could include after his passing. Some guys are cash poor and land rich.

I do not consider the word "investor" as a bad word, FWIW. I was just trying to articulate a profile of some land buyers...good or bad, it is not actual farmers though that are purchasing the land in all cases. In fact, one of my actual farmer friends recently floated the idea to me about me...

FWIW, the part that I bolded above is EXACTLY what is behind multiple recent land transactions here in SE Iowa that I am aware of. To be perfectly honest...I too am a participant, and also a likely future participant, in the same game. ie. investor, also a hunter, that is looking for a...

While ALL of the DNR people that I have known over many, many years have been "good guys", or gals, and are generally well intentioned folks...there have been a couple of subjects that they sure seem to have "group think" over. The baseline response to the presence of CWD is one of them. We...

Sounds interesting. Have you established planting rates, seed depths yet? My pheasant and quail population is steady and growing...I could see this being good for the birdies in the winter especially.

If you don't get someone lined up from here on IW, try Iowa Trapper's Talk. https://iowatrapperstalk.com/

Random FWIW factoid...I recently went on a guided elk hunt in New Mexico and after I shot my elk at very near last light one day we took up the track after waiting for I dunno, 20 minutes or so. Now, it is fairly dark. We were on good blood and I was paying more attention to the blood trail...

It's not too early right now, it for sure can work out now. But the best results come about 4 to 6 weeks fromnow IMO.

Welp, now I know, thank you. I can say, without smoking gun proof mind you, that this may explain how a certain hunter, and/or friend/family member, seems to be able to knock down big ones just about every year, and also snag some sheds that seem curious, on a fairly small property in an area...

Huh? That's news to me, thanks for clarifying. Although we do have plenty of food plots established, we never "supplement" that with piles/feeders/etc, during the season and...I thought that was prohibited. Huh! I witnessed a pickup truck with a trailer going into a field and the trailer...

OK, one point of clarification for me, sorry if everyone else already knows this... 1. Ban all in season feeding - I thought it was already illegal/not permitted to feed during season. Does this proposal eliminate say, food plots? What is meant by "in season feeding"?

The Hunter's Specialties farm is in Missouri. Are you thinking of Drury's in Decatur County?

Good points. My son reminded me the other day that modern security systems already classify the images that they pick up...vehicle detected, person detected, etc. So for the purposes of security the technology pretty much already exists to screen out deer, etc.

Hmmmm...reading this thread raises this question for me. (I apologize if I am derailing this thread, if so, I will dip out of this one.) I have one main farm under my name and I have gotten a LO tag many, many times through the years. I also now have a separate farm under an LLC trust. It...

That ^^ sounds about right to me in terms of what I think happens a lot of places. Although I have not hunted in a group in years, that's about the way it went in the group(s) that I was involved in. I still don't know though if the one buck proponents are envisioning it applying to party...

FWIW, I have seen many young bucks at lockers in Solon (multiple times through the years), Washington(multiple times through the years), Newhall (multiple times through the years), Tiffin (Way back, no longer open, but multiple times) and Edgewood (Once, but I think I only went there once)...

I think it is a good idea to involve a forester, but...just realize that some foresters will have a bent towards better timber, some will have a bent towards better deer hunting/habitat, some may blend both concepts well...but some may not. Whatever your goals and expectations are, be sure to...

IMO, I think you are, in the main, correct with your observations above. I do disagree though that "the percentage of 4 and 5 year olds is higher now than in the past...". For our area, and multiple other areas that I know of, there are now significantly fewer older bucks alive than even just...