Recent content by 7mmsendero

I’m in northern Michigan, so it may be different here. I’m considering a couple acres of asparagus, potted Christmas trees, grape tomatoes, mushrooms and maple syrup. I’m not doing all of those, and we already do some timber. I’ve raised asparagus, it’s interesting. Not many animals...

I share your views, at first I thought I wrote the post. I vote with the Supreme Court in mind, and I’m very pleased with the past 4 years in that regard. The court packing thing made my decision easy, and I voted 3 weeks ago absentee. I’m not sure why that’s so complicated, that’s how I...

Bucks are decent, does are terrible. The deer must be lean. The time I tried a doe it was like eating a rib covered in candle wax.

It’s not easy to know, but you want the days where just a few does are in estrus. What we often call “the peak of the rut” is more likely the days when 1 or 2 does are in estrus. Those are the days when competition is fierce. The days when a maximum number of does are in estrus can be less...

The rut is based on day length/photoperiod and doesn’t change much year to year.

Pronghorn Wyoming Early rifle-draw or leftover 12 hour travel time Probably could camp, it should still be warm enough Depending on how many go, you might pull this off for around $1,000 each.

If you want to start with something fairly simple DIY, pronghorn are pretty hard to beat. Wyoming is pretty accessible, monitor the winter kill. Last time I went in 2011 you could buy 2 buck tags, pretty fun hunt. It gets complicated when you bundle it with mule deer, but that’s a lot of...

My 2 cents on this topic (from experience), it’s hard to find a situation where both a pretty good. Often the land is great to good, house has issues (or the neighborhood). Afterwhile I found it’s easier to keep them separate, having a good house in a good location matters.

2nd this, quiet and comfortable. Add the shooting bracket and trigger stick.

Small foodplots with simple hand tools.

The important thing I came to realize is the plot didn’t need to be all that great. In fact, it’s better with just minimal traffic. It’s enough to get deer to wander through from bedding to the major food sources (corn or soy beans and apples). Basically I wanted them to funnel out of cover...

What’s a rat board?

Mice would be my first concern. They’re the worst. I’d recommend an “agricultural” building.

Agree, and I think there’s a lot going on with what and what organs you eat that we don’t fully understand. I’m a scientist by training and have known about prions for a couple of decades. Often I sit back and think the simple answer is God doesn’t like cannibalism. Mad Cow and CJD have...

Does she eat any beef or lamb? It would be Cervid to human prion transmission Kong, Qingzhong Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States Abstract Prion disease is transmissible and invariably fatal. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is the prion disease affecting deer, elk...