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FWIW, I do agree that Rocky Raccoon does A LOT of damage to cornfields that deer then get blamed for, but where I have seen serious deer damage to standing stalks is when the growing stalks are just the right height and Mrs. Doe and Mr. Buck walk right down a row and nip off the silk/ear. I...

Welp...two things... 1. I guess we won't need the cell cams to tell us when Mr. Big is "daylighting" 24/7 anymore. Kidding, not kidding. 2. I can hear the arguments in favor of this now..."It's legal..."., "I work first shift and can only hunt at night...", etc. This is madness IMO, but...

I would agree.. ^^ Yes, deer will eat it off the stalk, but really flock to it when it is made easy for them via mowing.

While I haven't hunted this way in quite a few years now, I used to make a point of doing 1 or 2 float trips down a small or mid-sized river each fall. We were mainly interested in bagging ducks, geese, pheasants, etc, not deer, although we commonly saw deer and turkey, and plenty of other...

I am pretty close to neutral on this, but would consider it foolish to do only this in isolation. In my area...older bucks are very scarce now and no one I know shoots 2 bucks per year, let alone 3. Additionally, three of us contiguous LO's are already shooting ZERO bucks a year the majority...

Similarly...and I have thought this thought...if this ever did happen, I would sell out, profit like a bandit, and find something else to do with the windfall as deer hunting as we have known it will cease to exist in this state. (Like, and even worse than, Illinois, IMO.) But, like you, and...

Yep...I have had people admit to me that they "tracked" me electronically and proceeded to share thoughts/questions/opinions about my farm. What? Well now the hunting sucks enough that I don't care :), but it is a little spooky.

I saw a post on Facebook today from Don Higgins where he expressed some skepticism about the "rush" to "one buck" policies as a solution. (Paraphrased) But I thought it was interesting in light of this thread/conversation. I am curious, for the "Indiana did it and look at them now" crowd...in...

Well said. ^^ I think it is fallacious to label this thread as a "pissing match". A healthy, respectful conversation, or even a debate, is a good thing IMO. If there has been disrespect or blatantly argumentative replies...I have missed them. The reality is that "our problem" is complex AND...

I don't know the answer to your question, but I do know that a good number of people will have the LO where they hunt get a LO tag...which they then may, or may not, use themselves. I have seen where the LO tag, gets applied to one of the first bucks harvested by the group so "Farmer Brown"...

Or...#4. In the main, I really don't care if they do go to "one buck", I just don't see it as the solution to the problem that several people do. I have a very mild preference to leave it as is to continue to allow for #2...but not so much that I really care if it goes away. I have been...

My answer will be a little murky, as I either never started using some of the "things" or use it/them so rarely that it really wouldn't be a big deal to give up, etc. Cell cams - we have 3 or 4, but they are strictly used for security purposes. I was never comfortable with them as a tool to...

IMO, I really don't care if it goes to 1 buck. I personally have shot ZERO bucks in at least the last 3 years, FWIW. One buck would be an INCREASE for me and several neighbors, some of whom have also voluntarily restricted themselves. Granted, others are still shooting bucks, but no one I...

Just an FYI...even with the "isolation" factor that Don Higgins enjoys those deer do still come and go, if not every day, then seasonally, with frequency. He often gets pics of known deer several miles from his farm. So, I don't think even with say a hypothetical 2 mile wide buffer that these...

This is unfortunately also true.

That's basically the Higgins model. On at least big side of his property if you turn and look the other way from his ground...you can't see another tree for miles. Also, I doubt it would take 10 years to create an "island" of cover that would atrract deer for miles...provided it is then...

I think it might be 25% of the north boundary. I have been on his farm, around the whole perimeter except for the north line, and did not see any high fence on the boundaries and I saw a lot of the boundaries.

Are you sure that he has high fence on 25%? My understanding is that it is considerably less than that and was installed to thwart one small adjacent landowner from letting dogs run free in his yard that then went on into Don's sanctuary.

You and everyone else. :) For those that understand how/why that farm "works" like it does though, it greatly aids the understanding of the dynamics that we are discussing. FWIW, Don was "losing" bucks to hunters on a neighboring farm who were much less choosy as to which bucks to...

Other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln? This ^^ completely ignores the reality that cell cams ARE being used in a fashion that then leads to choosing "that" field/blind/stand to then hunt...minutes or hours after a Mr. Big appearance. It is electronic surveillance, pure and...