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    Help Me Legalize Semiauto Rifle Big Game Hunting In Pennsylvania

    The trend for Iowa is AR’s in gun deer season. It is like Call of Duty out there. For every responsible AR hunter there is another one who is spray and pray. Conservation officers deal with shot people, livestock, and buildings every December. Zumbo was right. Be careful what you wish for.
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    Help Me Legalize Semiauto Rifle Big Game Hunting In Pennsylvania

    Anyone have a link to a petition to keep the law as it is? I’d be happy to sign that one.
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    Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025

    If you don’t dehydrate first, it ruins the texture. I submerge and soak overnight, rinse and slice lengthwise, then dehydrate and freeze. There are many ways to dehydrate - low-temp dehydrator, sun dry, or fan dry. I do not like a heat element (oven, etc.) as I think it produces a different...
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    Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025

    Met ten mushroom hunters afield, making turkey encounters a tall order. I tried pulling a private land tom off 3 hens this evening, but no dice. Precip and soil temp were just right this year, and mushrooms are everywhere. We all made out like bandits.
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    Iowa deer… who wants a tag?

    With all due respect, Ben, I think we took a wrong turn. An auction might bring in more $$ in the short term, but harm reputation in the long run.
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    Iowa deer… who wants a tag?

    Oh, man, how did I miss this thread? When the Governor’s tags began getting scrutinized around 2012 we realized what a dumb-ass idea it was to divvy out 75 celebrity tags to “promote” hunting in Iowa. Nonresident tags sell out every year, so there was zero ROI in the program. IA can still...
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    Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025

    Found a few morels, and heard my first gobble around 9:30. Caught up with the bird after 45 mins, and called/fanned (actually) 2 toms within gun range 3 times, but they would not cross a hog fence on to public. Two different real hens pulled them away from me twice. Did find two new morel spots...
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    Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025

    Set up with decoys last night between the two spots I previously heard roost gobbles. Did some calling and had a hen check out the spread. At sunset the only gobbles were very far away. Mushroom hunters are out in force, which bodes well for May hunting, as morels will be over by then. I was...
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    Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025

    Yesterday evening I had 4 hens in my little spot, and lots of fungi. 2 roost gobblers elsewhere, a quarter mile apart, and both on public. I need to decide if I want to pick a whole bunch more morels, or try for a turkey tonight.
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    Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025

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    2025 spring bear thread

    Add me to the mix in 4 weeks. It has been a long 3 year wait since my last MT bear trip.
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    Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025

    I made too many commitments this spring, and not thinking much about anything hunting-related. My plan is to make myself get out by Friday and let some gobbles distract me.
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    Public Lands for Government Efficiency?

    It is obviously difficult to estimate avg land value of such vast and diverse holdings. Capitol Hill could go for more than a million per acre, as would Old Faithful. Then there is remote arctic tundra fetching less than $100 per acre. If we exclude all developed federal land, parks, public...
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    Public Lands for Government Efficiency?

    640M acres of federal public land in the US. A wild guess, if the average sale price is $3500/ac, selling it all generates $2.24T. That would cover federal spending for less than 4 months, or deficit spending for 14 months, or reduce the cumulative debt by 6.7%.
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