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I was fortunate enough arrow a nice mature doe this morning after watching a small four point walk through the area. As I was getting ready to roll her on her back to start field dressing her it was very apparent she had just been bred. She still had the "still steamin buck semin" all over her...

Let's face it there are just some things that cant be engineered out of the hunting world. Bows can be faster, quiter, and more accurate. Unfortunately no one told deer this. The fact that deer jumped the string makes as much sense as why that big buck that never came your way that night went...

I do not disagree that John Kerry is less then impressive but yet I am somewhat dismayed with this whole situation. The way I understood the statement it seemed to me that it was clearly intended to be a shot towards old "W" himself. Which quite frankly shouldn't come as a suprise to any of us...

I couldn't resist emailing this place. I asked them what the difference between this and just shopping for venison was. Also asked them how they could call this hunting? I can't wait to see what kind of friendly response that gets. I might as well pimp my wife out and call it interpersonal...

Would it really matter how many acres you limited people to? They would just break their operations into smaller subsidiaries to create a loophole. It's kind of like the guy who's wife shotgun party hunts with them. Not a bad idea but it still it too easy to get around.

I having been bowhunting for the past few years out of my blind and have always set up predominately on field edges. What set up do most of you bowhunters use? I know there is better shooting in the open but it seems the birds may be more prone to work right up to the blind in cover. This may...

Finally got into some birds this morning. Three good toms in the bunch and none would budge from their hens. They hung up at 50-60 yards. Worse yet the biggest tom ran off one of the other Tom's who was heading my way! Once the hen's start leaving the bunch to nest I think a lot birds will...

Now that the turkey season is quickly approaching a week old what type of activity is everyone seeing? I thought I would start this post since the Rut Report was such a good tool. The birds that I have been seeing as of this morning are all still pretty bunched up. Not exactly running to a...

I know one thing. If I was him and knew it was going to be taken away and had the opportunity I'd cut the darn thing into some of the most impressive knife handles I could before I let the State use is as another great Iowa Monster to bring more people here. No offense but this big buck stuff...

I have recently become addicted to turkey hunting with my bow in the last few years and fortunately have good success. Now I am really wanting to take a Merriam with my bow. I have seen many advertisements for outfitted hunts and was wondering if a do it yourself hunt is that hard to pull off...

With the deer population epidemic that the "whole state" is experiencing it would seem logical that the entire state help to take care of the problem. (financially) So in short your point is well stated. I don't want to come across to harsh yet I do think we are dealing with a very large...

WJS - I keep seeing one phrase in the cons section of your options that jumps out at me "loss of revenue". What is the revenue number that the state is trying to acheive anyway? It can only be considered a loss if we are benchmarking it against a set number that we want to acheive. So if this...

In regards to the two way radio thing. They are a great tool for safety. I have heard of many people who now use their cell phones to help in keeping track of each other. This is a game law that doesn't make any sense. The main reason is that it takes into account the well being of the "fair...

Some city park in Iowa City! Ha, Ha...

[ QUOTE ] the IDNR said that this season isnt based on revenue but on political pressure on down-sizing the deer population. [/ QUOTE ] Why is that we never hear who this political pressure is being applied by? Is there anywhere they we can find voting records that indicate who is...

Don't plan on it going away. The whole concept of it being harder to stop once it was implemented is true. Until someone or some group can put a stop to the Iowa Department of Non-Typical Revenue's questionable methods we are stuck with it. The biggest problem comes from the fact that the...

You will probably never know how much of an impact that one night will have on your son. My son is almost three and he is pretty facinated by deer and turkeys. I only hope we will get a chance to share a moment like that. I think your son and you got a Christmas present early! Makes all...

Re: THE BEGINNING OF THE END, ENJOY WHAT WE HAVE N Very good points in deed. Sounds like you have a pretty good thing going with your neighbors. Thanks for the insights.

Hang in there. The hardest thing for a new bowhunter to learn and a veteran bowhunter to remember is that probably 95% of the time (for most of us) you aren't going to see those bruisers. Let alone get to shoot them. Just hunt terrain features that will put you in the right spot and hope that...

Re: THE BEGINNING OF THE END, ENJOY WHAT WE HAVE N I agree with you completely about the overpopulation of deer not seeming that bad around Wapello county. I hunt in the Mahaska/Wapello/Monroe County areas and I seem to think that we see less deer now then we used to. I have basically two...