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welded wire also makes great round bale blinds. i should look into the lime. PITA getting a truck load only to transfer it to something else and get it back into hunting plots that only have hilly atv trails to get to.

i agree with all of that. $ and leasing is very common. in my experience walking in the shoes of both, some hunters seem think $ to lease trumps all else and it's simply not the case. lease $ is just a supplemental thing. haven't seen a lease price yet that pays off the taxes on a farm or comes close. the benefits landowners get from having good trustworthy hunters on their property that are within reason serving the landowners needs is far more important than the $. i see this a lot too. some groups flood a property and sit in the same stands every time out. the deer spend the day just browsing around in pockets of cover until dark because the hunters are patterned. that's never going to change though. it's a part of hunting. also the grass on the other side of the fence will always seem greener and more mysterious for holding that ghost of a buck you're after. you'd be surprised how often that small patch of paradise beyond your reach holds a just a couple more warm bodies that haven't seen anything more than you all day.

closest thing i can think of is the local k-12 schools in different districts around here try to have an outdoor show. all day friday it's open for classes to come see and learn. then open to the public that friday evening, saturday and sunday. anyone or thing having to do with the outdoors and hunting ask for permission to setup a booth for free; trappers, outfitters, educations orgs, rod and gun clubs, etc. DEC and Encon usually have a "booth" setup. This past year it's gotten canceled at the local school due to outside issues. The booths consume the gym and lobby, so some of us where going to looking into having maybe a few adjacent classrooms and the auditorium setup with wildlife seminars. when you walked in you could go see whichever one floats your boat. anything from aging a deer jawbone and aging a deer on the hoof, bird stuff, photography, bow fishing, fishing, fish stocking, or forestry/habitat related stuff. we've even thought about having a safety and educational seminars on using and setting up or bow or gun for hunting that we call quality deer hunter classes. more nuts and bolts kind of stuff and how setups differ/work compared very basic stuff you learn in hunter safety. so hopefully it can get resurrected.

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I had Gander card for years and now i've had a Cabelas card for years. cabelas card membership seems way better. more discounts and offers.

only a minority of hunters are willing to put in more effort and work to gain access. then others once they have it blow the opportunity. i know of a local produce farmer that let hunters in to hunt. hunters said sure we'll shoot doe to help you out. along comes a pic of a nice buck. they all hunted for it and meanwhile didn't shoot a single doe. now they don't hunt there. funny thing is i know this because the landowner found me, desperately asking for QDM minded hunters that would fill doe tags. he wants hunters! yet the hunters that got the boot are probably complaining about finding a hunting spot is hard. that was a limited access honey hole if i ever saw one.

i've come to realize a problem exists with DEC related activities. a vast majority happen during the week when everyone is at work. TV costs a ton for airtime that's only seen at an old folks home rec room. give a couple DEC staff members a day and a half or two off to put on a seminar or something during the weekend. rotate staff to have something going on every weekend a couple months before the season. it could be anything related to hunting. things like that in late summer get people fired up for fall hunting season. we have a few educational facilities (Pine Bush, Five Rivers, etc.) here in the capitol region but most programs happen during the week and end up with lack luster participation. also special season hunts are poorly promoted to reduce deer populations in suburban/urban areas. you pool local hunters and very successful hunting groups willing to make a trip out of it don't participate. for example in ithaca, one hunter took almost a dozen deer on the property open for the special hunt and most others took nothing at all. seems like i can come up with others.

nothing... maybe get trail cams out sooner to pin down some 4.5+ year old bucks that are still kickin around. other than that it's burning time to help other hunters and thankless co-op duties. as long as i get out at some point during the season hopefully karma will make the limited time out worth while.

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nice job and happy bday!

copy whatever the boss hen does. i've had her come into to flog me all bothered and often curious. helps somtimes if a buddy calls from further away to bring them past you sitting in silence. if you move, go back to that spot late morning. when many of the hens go to nest the beards might come back trolling for attention.

definitely. hope everyone gets through it the best they can. went through loss earlier this year. everything about it sucks, but even though they're gone, they can never be completely taken away.

didn't know. best of luck and quick recovery! then get back out there to keep you young!

same mines and company but sold in different clothing. it's basically rock. Redmond Rock is marketed to equine/farmers. Trophy Rock marketed as deer minerals, but the exact same stuff. As Trophy Rock it's even available crushed up into finer pieces in bags. any farm animals with a tongue seem to like it and then i've heard the same for deer. it's got more in it like calcium, phosphorus, and other minerals that many of your trace mineral salt blocks normally don't have. for farm applications those minerals are important for quick weight gain and bone strength. Plus if i used cabelas bucks i could buy discounted toward the end of the season and could throw it out in the show animal pasture for free. Redmond Rocks are expensive as a lot of equine associated stuff is. i think the jury's still out if it'd even significantly help wild deer though. from what i've seen on hunting shows it pulls them into trail cams good.

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i've seen that video. guy is a no frills this is what i've tried and this is what works kind of guy.

all kinds of flops posted on facebook and here i'm at work.

yesterday during the day i was working in the garage and heard a tom sound off. i've got a beat old box call in leave in there. for laughs and fun i called the long beard in from out back to the edge of the yard. daughter who's almost 3 couldn't take it any longer. ran out from behind the corner of the garage and out into the yard after it. it obviously didn't like that and went back out into the corn field. kids i tell ya!

wife's first cousin has a saint bernard that's get big. idk how they manage to feed them. don't know any with a mastiff but yea

my grandparent's at one time had a german shepard that loved to open up new windows. never had to clean them as they were always new. one with a lap dog mind set would've been preferred i'm sure. it was before my time, i just got the stories.

we don't really keep up on them. more of a set it and forget it. got a grant years ago and put in a cluster of a few duck ponds with wood duck boxes. don't even remember the specs but know multiple species use them.

i know of a couple households with a "lap dog" both Great Danes that can practically lick food off the backsplash of a kitchen counter with all paws on the floor. their struggle is funny but they allowed the precedent so they deal. lol

pretty much been said.... it sets aside the best time of the year and the first chance to kill birds without competition from other hunters. kids at times take a lot longer to get setup up and comfortable. sometimes it takes a blind. opening week can be fast often be fast placed and not the best situation to take things slower and take the time to teach. i myself have had some shady hunters go right around me to work the same bird. i've also had honest hunters unknowingly setup close enough to me where i was pulling in a bird to me but on the way it ended within range of them and they took it. also by the end of the first week birds kick the rust off and retain some education. by design youth season should be more successful than just taking yours or someone else's kid(s) out the first weekend in May.