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I took a deer management class at UW with the former head of big game management in the WDNR, both him and all of our guest lecturers were skeptical of Kroll. Problem in Wisconsin is that the hunters don't trust the DNR and the DNR micromanages the herd to the point it doesn't work at all. Their...

Let's see some proof first

7 pages in and we finally made the first Nazi reference. Yes, the Holocaust is totally akin to crossbows. Personally, i don't care if you want to kill a deer with a crossbow during archery season. If it adds thousands of potential hunters that would not previously participate, I'm all for it...

I personally know know A LOT more residents that own land that are restrictive to others, to the point of harassing anyone they don't know driving down a public gravel road because they might be looking at "their" bucks. That notwithstanding, the same people cry for the same reasons about not...

I guess i didn't make it obvious enough, for the timber. When you buy timber anymore, once in a while you come across an opportunity that can supply the mills with wood while at the same time being an investment opportunity. Our biggest farm will stay in the family forever, I dont see that...

I'm on the other side of the glass now as a resident so I know how much it sucks. Id put our farms up against any in the state as far as whitetail quality and it was frustrating for the last 12 years having to wait 3 years to draw bow tags. I really wish the DNR made it easier for us to at least...

I actually just got a call from the DNR this morning approving my residency change. First, get your Iowa Driver's License. After 90 days, you have to submit a whole bunch of paperwork. It includes driver's license, lease or homeowners agreement, proof of employment in Iowa, whether you've filed...

The photographer is a friend of mine, the pics were taken across the river in Buffalo County, WI. 234" gross, 227" net, 196" 8X7 typical frame

My dad went down and mowed it last week. Looks like green carpeting now, should look great come October

No, I've admittedly not been keeping up with any technical stuff hunting wise through college/starting work, looks like ill be updating my 3 Reconyx this weekend. They're the 5 or 6th different type of cameras I've used, I couldn't be any happier with them. Thanks for the heads up!

Feels good to finally be an Iowa resident and hunt back to back bow seasons for the first time ever plus shotgun. I've had a pretty good year on the cameras so far,here's 4 of the cooler ones. hopefully some of these guys hang around and the 3 year old 10 pointers make it one more year, it would...

I took a class on whitetail biology my senior year at Wisconsin as an elective. The prof was a former deer biologist with the WDNR and we had guest lecturers on different topics that were deer researchers with the DNR or UW system and covered a lot of interesting ground. To be honest, the couple...

I'll bite on this. Maybe all the big time tv hunters/the Iowa DNR were getting sick of all the questions being raised about how certain non-residents didn't draw but still got a bow tag every year. As a former non-resident landowner, nothing was more frustrating than getting to hunt your own...

Ditto. Maybe in a place like Texas where drought has a large impact on forage, but not up here. All the ag crops, woodland forage and the easy winter/warm spring should have them running a little bigger than trend if anything

I'm doing sales/marketing for HON Company in Muscatine. I used to fish a lot of tournaments on pools 8-10, sorta confirmed what I've always thought about the southern pools being barge canals. I might just put the flippin' stick down for a few more years and focus on the whitetails while Im a...

This has been in the works for several months, but I made the jump to state of Iowa after graduation. I'm living in Davenport and working in Muscatine, so I'm looking for a few pointers from you folks as I moved down here without a whole lot of knowledge of the area. First, whats a good gun...

It's too bad a few eagles die every year, but with populations at a high and stable level, does it really matter? Are there any other mortality numbers for other types of bald eagle deaths? Nobody wants dead eagles, but you can't micro manage every single species to try to prevent a few dozen...

I don't necessarily support this, but hypothetical situation: Why not give NRLOs an extra preference point or some kind of advantage in the draw, but leave overall tag numbers roughly the same(or maybe bump up +2000 or so)? You'd still sell out of tags every year and you'd still cap the...

You hit the nail on the head. My dad went to the meeting they had about the elk in Allamakee County that they shot a couple months ago. It wasn't about CWD, it was about the farm bureau. I really get the impression that its all about Iowa farmers getting 200 bushels an acre and the Farm Bureau...

I guess not everyone can see the humor in things. I actually had the t-shirt version of my avatar at one time until I sold it for $20 in an Iowa City bar. It's ok, I can deal with not getting a bow tag every year. I just buy doe tags and shotgun hunt instead, just like this past year where I...