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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...

Haven't watched the podcast...but...I have said a couple of times here that when I hear any Iowa DNR person talk about things today in a way that DOESN'T acknowledge the population AND quality drop...that person loses credibility in my eyes FAST. Yes, there are still plenty of areas in this...

Huh...that seems like a pretty big disparity. Why is that? Is it just culture/habit or something else?

FWIW, I have also considered buying additional ground "elsewhere"...but 2 things have, so far, stopped me from doing that. 1. If the new piece is far enough away to escape the "EHD zone" that we find ourselves in now...how do I know that EHD won't hit there in the future too? Our current...

I appreciate the tone, thank you. To clarify...we had big overall numbers AND good older buck hunting for years, decades even. Then EHD brought us to our knees in 2023, AND some have then maintained buck harvest numbers, even in the absence of 5+ year olds BUT no one that I know of has even...

How many years were we allowed multiple bucks? 25? Maybe longer? For roughly 2/3, or more, of those years we had very good, even great, hunting. Moving to a 1 buck state will not, all by itself, solve the problem. It didn't cause it and it can't solve it.

How many DID the 10 hunters actually take? Your reply is purely hypothetical and not refective of reality. My point is that that the "supply" of older bucks does not equal the "demand" now and further restricting the demand will not appreciably increase the supply. Again...coming from...

Again I say...somebody tell me how a one buck limit is going to help us that much...there are more "trophy" hunters now than there are actual trophies. Our main problem(s) are not guys shooting multiple bucks, so solving that problem doesn't address the main problems/challenges that we have.

OK, good to know, thank you, I thought I had read where people were saying that the population is WAY down. FWIW, I will say that in the last 15 or so years I have driven up through Minnesota to get to Canada probably at least a dozen times and have seen many fewer deer "these days" than I...

One, potentially clarifying point...is the question at hand: a) How many Iowa bucks do get to 180"? OR b) How many Iowa bucks could get to 180"? Two very different answers IMO. Then...are we talking about: a) "In the wild" conditions, as pretty much all of our deer would actually...

I am not an expert on Minnesota deer numbers at all, but I remember many, many moons ago now, (about 40 moons ago :) ) driving up through Minnesota to go fishing in Canada and seeing TONS and TONS of deer, everywhere, including in the great white north region. I don't have historical numbers to...