Strategies to have more mature MD in the unit:
-LQ
-Short season
-Season dates, e.g. no rut hunt
-Increase the population/improve the habitat
-APR
Social management of wildlife, options 1-4 can be expensive or cause stakeholders to complain. APR costs nothing and gives the appearance of trying...
FINALLY. Day 13 of bow season and I’m in the blind. Bird gobbling his head off from the roost. He pitched down into a private field, but was drawn back towards me by a clucking hen. Hen at about 40, tom at 60. Didn’t see them through the thick brush. I’ll try calling again around 9 AM hoping...
The million dollar answer is a million other hunters want “the best odds at lower elevations and more manageable terrain”. The wealthy ones fork out 15k, and everyone else goes back to the drawing board.
There are Land Trust properties where elk pass thru or show up intermittently, but your...
Well, heck. Nice to see everyone out having a good time!
Too much going on in my life: Normal busy spring yard work. I couldn’t get what I needed to start taxes until 3 days to the deadline, and then I had to go back and amend 4 past returns b/c I discovered that I screwed those up. 3/29...
Weight inching up in the 160’s but averaging about 6 good workouts per week. Feeling great, diet slightly more relaxed, still eating very clean overall.
They should pass another law to boot out all the NR influencers who bought in. Maybe we could get a roster of the purchasers through FOIA?
On a related note, the popularity of western big game hunting is and has been spawning a rolling list of ways to creatively game the system to nab a tag.
Scouting b/f daybreak
Oblivious deer
Wood duck pair
4 gobblers total. 1 marginal spot just off the road for bird 1. A fairly decent set up for bird 2, w/ good views all around. Both archery.
15-20 min hike further in to an open draw about 100 yards downhill from 2 gobblers on the roost. I...
Lee is completely aware that the legislature’s job is to craft legislation and fund it in order to equip the White House to responsibly manage our country.
However, if his voters are foolish enough to vote Lee into Office, he takes it as carte blanche permission to advance his mission of...
Got an hour scouting hike in on 4/1. No birds, no sign. I did find a promising fishing or wood duck spot - mouth of a deep slack water channel off the main waterway. I also jumped a buck still sporting his antlers.