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We got 60 plus pigeons over the corn bunker today. Short shoot as we had other obligations. I have 55 inches of snow at the land right now. My friend lost a barn last weekend from the snow. Complete loss. I ave not been able to fo a morning crow hunt and there are THOUSANDS coming yo roost every night. Most i have seen in years. My office work is insane right now and been putting in hours the weekend mornings.

I see there nothing in there about not shooting button bucks (something by the way that I did not do thru all of 2024). I’m just a little disappointed, that I didn’t get to enjoy any of that “milk fed” liver lately, especially after my buddy told me that he got one for me on New Year’s Day with his ML. That turned out to be a 1.5 yr old 1.5” “dmp mini-spike”. The liver was still pretty good though and twice as big as the usual bb liver. Just not quite as tender. I did age it in the fridge for (9) days prior to frying though, and that helped with the tenderness. I had the first serving for dinner last night, and I will probably have the rest for lunch tomorrow. Certainly it put a very fine capstone on that last Holiday ML season for me, even if I wasn’t able to harvest a deer myself during it. My buddy also now has plenty of grind to make the sausage that he had been craving, something that wouldn’t have happened, without that awesome new season.

This thread kind of makes one wonder how it is that any deer ever survived before trail cams, food plots, and supplemental winter feeding and careful counting and record keeping and micro management. Deer hunting is now mandated to be an agricultural project. It is not hunting anymore, it is animal husbandry. It is amazing how even back when we had a lot of very eager and active hunters, almost behind every tree, the deer herd still survived without all the assistance from our "expert" private game managers. Thank heavens we have all these "expert" people today that try to shame all hunters into all these deer management schemes. How would the herd ever survive without these people who try to tell others what deer they should shoot and which not to shoot? Of course all of this "expert" arguing and cajoling is probably a big part of the reason that hunting is slowly fading from existence as the common activity it used to be. We need all these self-proclaimed experts.......Don't we?

He was there throughout the season I guess, got a few more from early season too Sent from my Pixel 4 XL using Tapatalk