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The discipline stuff happened at the smaller district where my kids go to school. It is ludicrous. That, combined with the recent uncovering of theft makes me think it is near or things are going to improve dramatically, one or the other. By the way, the superintendent of our community...

Both sides have MASSIVE problems. The system has been exploited to the point where the same big money controls most of both sides. That's why it feels like things keep getting worse overall. The real problem is us. We have to be waayyy more involved as a society. I know there are some that...

This is a great point. Before my kids were old enough to hunt, I let other people hunt my land once I was tagged out and I only had 30 acres at that time. Now, with 4 of us hunting a relatively small piece of ground, we usually don't tag out in a whole season. I used to be lucky enough to...

I traded hunting for prs shooting for almost ten years before I earned the means and connections to get quality access. Now, what was great 5 years ago is junk again, so might consider it again.

I'm not 100% sure what changed in Iowa exactly. We had a million page thread about it, so I don't want to rehash it. However, 20+ years ago, most of the state of Iowa was hunted like "public." Of course you had to ask permission, but almost no one told you no. You were sharing with multiple...

I came across a podcast where Zach is being interviewed. I have never even heard of him. He speaks to a lot of issues that are on my mind. I am very reluctant to believe anything these days. Does anyone know him? Is he real? Will he fight to accomplish the things he says he will? Thoughts?

I agree we need to lay off the deer. Even in the counties with the highest deer densities in the state you can easily see the pockets where there is party hunting vs not. There is a huge difference in local deer populations from one section to the next. We only killed one doe in our normal...

You are 100% correct on the increase in pressure from the party hunting and antlerless tag loophole. I haven't party hunted since my kids started hunting, but before that me and everyone else in my shotgun group that wasn't a one weekend a year deer hunter would use the loophole you described...

Just getting to reading this. Yes, it should count. I used to hunt in those groups decades ago. Farmers loved me. We could literally go into a small block of timber and kill every single deer in it. I'm not saying we did it every time, but once every couple years we would do it. Farmers...

Sort of off topic, but I agree with this philosophy. It seems like most mature bucks hate social pressure (from other deer) most of the year. I have had the opportunity to hunt some big farms in the past that went from garbage to great with the reduction of social pressure. Putting all the...

Some states have short thermal seasons when bucks are shed. Other than during the thermal season, coyotes are hunted in daylight and trapped. I would honestly support this. Agree we need more CO's and some way to fund them. Less thermal use is going to be a hard sell to die hard thermal...

I used to party hunt years ago. The party started with my Dad, myself, and 1 uncle in 1996. My brother joined when he was old enough. After that everyone brought a friend and another uncle joined in. Pretty much continued that way until 2011 when we were at 20+ people the year my oldest was...

Another question, if we get the population up, how do we slow the high grading and keep habitat from being destroyed so bucks can reach old age? How do we know the buck harvest won't just increase proportionally to the population? With less antlerless tags, aren't guys that NEED the meet...

Now that we are talking about raising population and deer density, how do we actually fix some of the problems in "high density" counties. I live and hunt in one of the highest density counties on the map. We have areas where deer are protected by landowners and those deer numbers in that...

Maybe we are looking at it differently. I am guessing based on little anecdotal evidence. VERY FEW deer in my area get to 6.5 years old unless they dont make 140". I have passed a ton of deer at younger than 5.5 years to try to get some age on them. The ones that are over 140 mostly...

The tech argument is wrought with debate. How far do we roll it back? What do we roll back? Of course, we all want it to be "like the good ol' days" which of course is when we were kids/started no matter our age. Do we get rid of drones, cell cams, all cams, treestands, box blinds, pop-up...

1 buck and I would probably not shoot a buck often just to be out there. It would have to be a giant around or after Thanksgiving to get me to punch a tag. That said, that's not getting rid of cull bucks either.

The deer I shot was at least 5 years old. I found his shed from last year after killing him. It was almost exactly the same. He did not get any bigger/smaller. Pretty sure he was 6. A 3 year old is easy to tell and 4 is not really hard at all until late season. Generally, passing 4's will...

In my area in Iowa, it seems like sightings have dropped 80-90% in the last 5 years and over 90% since 2011 when I drove through the area where I now live to get to work.

During the best years of Iowa with permission to bowhunt 865 contiguous acres in one of the best areas with one other guy (we hunted together/in cooperation with each other and were best friends so not competing) we would see ONE deer over 180" per year most years. About every third or fourth...