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I won’t speak for everyone but where I work/hunt we lost 1/2 the herd in 2021, had a pretty bad run of it again in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Couldn’t tell you what percentage we are from what we were because some better habitat sections just picked up a lot of the deer that survived. Some sections...

I definitely get what you’re saying, but theres miles and miles of area in those counties with zero deer. 4 years in a row of EHD and self control hasn’t been exercised by enough people to keep does from getting hammered in those counties. In a normal situation yes 100% better to shoot a doe...

Probably not enough of one.

Shelby, Crawford, Ida, Woodbury, Plymouth, O’Brien , Sioux , and Lynn

Seems like this is so hard to really lump fence sitters in together just by the distance they are from the fence. I hunt one sanctuary where I put the stand clear up against the fence just to keep myself out of the sanctuary and to blow my scent into an ag field behind me. Yes I’m 12’ off the...

they’re gonna scream regardless of the rules

I would say this is without a doubt the will of the hunters in that region that consider themselves “conservationists” That said, there’s absolutely going to be that %5 of guys that are going to piss and moan about how there’s too many deer in Sioux county Iowa and they need to be able to shoot...

They’ve held quite a few public meetings (I think 12) in 2024 and 2025 , in western Iowa just checking the pulse for major changes in regulations out there. The 3 meetings they held last May ( Denison, Hinton, and Sioux center) had a lot of people at them and everyone had a questionnaire to...

The biggest shame of all is the fur market just being ruined, the lefty’s finally got what they wanted (or so they think) and what they didn’t account for was that all of these animals were still going to get shot or trapped whether there was a fur market or not. But it’s not their problem...

Don’t believe they do sportsmen any favors? Turkeys, pheasants, quail, ducks , geese… all benefit so the sportsmen that hunt them benefit. Not to mention the damage getting blamed on deer, thus affecting deer hunters. What did you sell your coons for this year on average? And how many did you...

Yep , and since it’s a contest for the most coons shot it would be fairly counterproductive to shoot them and not pick them up. So I don’t see that being an issue, the checkin at the end will be virtual so each contestant will be responsible for their own coons.

The reason the tournament is being held in March is the same reason the season was opened year round. Coons aren’t bringing enough money to sustain a harvest that keeps their population in check. Shooting coons in March and April is the best time to affect nesting success. You want to talk...

Season doesn’t close for coons on private land.

What county ?

What did you do for weed control? I did some hybrid willow cuttings last year and had %100 success with several that grew to 10’ I put a couple flakes of grass hay around each one, gave them their first drink, and touched up around them with roundup to kill the brome.

The thing is the herd can be managed in a way that there are big deer for the guys that want to hunt big deer, and in that system there’s still young deer for the guys that just want to shoot the first thing that walks by, and the population doesn’t need to be out of control causing property...

CYA and take a picture of it when you do it.

I read somewhere that you can graft pears onto hawthorn?

Do you worry about the imazapyr leaching into the ground and hurting oaks ?