‘25 Iowa whitetail

I’ve never heard of anyone using them before. Did you use them for communication like starting a drive or to try and move deer?
Mainly to move deer. However, they sound similar to a gunshot so could usually be heard by everyone at the start of a drive. This was before cell phones. You should give them a try if your into making noise during drives. Later on some guys thought making loud noises was counter productive so we adjusted our drives a bit to incorporate the drivers walking slower and even pausing to stand and talk to “make the bucks uncomfortable.” Big/smart bucks seemed to hold until the last minute so I do think there is some truth to this, more so sometimes they would hold long enough they could slip out the back/direction the drivers were coming from.
 
The 40 next to me in southern MN just went for $800k. Nothing special about it. Crappy ag land and decent, but not great, hunting. A neighbor bought it just because she didn’t want new neighbors building a house there.
 
I would guess it will be in the 5-6k per acre range. It’s not buildable, all forest and no ag. The forest has been heavily logged. And you will have to work out an easement with your neighbor because it is landlocked by about 10 yards on the road side.

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My buck is laying about at the bottom right of the black squiggles. No trail to get an atv to him and he is half way from the top or half way to the bottom.
 
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