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Agreed. Our cows would get them from time to time and looked similar. They would infect, pop like a huge zit, clear up and be fine.

We all have to agree that posted signs makes an excellent rifle rests. The fight is still on but now its looking more like a tournament. How about a 4-man round robbin style? Don't worry treeguy, you don't have to worry about tripping over the posted signs.

I don't think I can get more than 50 in my basement. Maybe I could bring the mat up to the lawn and everyone can come and enjoy.

Maybe the best thread ever on this site!!!! I've been lol'ing for 20 minutes. I have a wrestling mat in my basement and boxing mits too. Open invitation to both Bubba and Doe to come to my place and hash things out. First 50 spectators are welcome too!

I'll try to get the pics uploaded. Gotta dig them out. I seem to get good tonnage but it is more expensive and beans took an awful jump in price this year. I paid $54 per RR bag.

I feel your pain... It looks like a couple kids to me, but I can't zoom in far enough to see the back person. Does your friend know who they are?

Split, Have you ever tried sewing your beans in with your corn? A buddy of mine and I have been doing this for the past couple years with incredible success. Plant the corn, then drill the beans right on top, then roll the whole show. I broadcast 15-15-15 fertilizer on top at about 100 pounds per acre. The beans seem to grow taller with more pods and the corn is still growing up to 12' with 12-14" ears. I'll try to dig through some of my pictures and show the results.

How much rain did you get after planting? If you got too much rain it may have drowned the seeds. I had that problem a couple years ago. I planted 2.5 acres and not a stalk grew. The seed rotted in the ground. I've seen birds raise hell with a corn field too. Especially if it is a smaller field. They were picking the plants as soon as they popped the ground. You can still get some short season sweet corn and plant it. I'm putting in some 68 day sweet corn tomorrow.

After watching the video I was so angry that I decided to ground my 6 and 9 year old just in case they did something like that in the future.... I had a little league coach tell me that kids are different than "we were." Kids are kids and will do whatever they are allowed to get away with. Been that way since the dawn of time. Its the parents job to curb that behavior young. The only thing different is the parents. I'm 35 year old and still wouldn't dare back talk my old man.

WNY, I hope you understand that my view point isn't about you or this thread specifically. It is a bunch of threads that I have read over the past 2-3 years. There doesn't seem to be a week that goes by where you don't see someone scolding or demeaning someone else. You may feel like your getting the brunt of my, and others, frustration but it isn't intended to be that way. I think what we all need to do is get liquored up, grab a gun and a light, shoot a big fat doe off Vietvet's mineral lick and have us a kick off to summer BBQ. You hold the light I'll drive.

Its not about being politically correct. Its about people preaching like they've never done a thing wrong. Culver, you only have to go back to last deer season to see what I am talking about. On a positive note, I saw a doe with tiny triplet fawns yesterday afternoon.

Seriously? Give me a break. You want to mineral supplement deer in your back yard I could care less. It isn't hurting anything or anybody. (I'm talking out of season) You on the other hand admit to talking on a cellphone while driving which has the potential of hurting someone.... The next part is a general comment to no one in particular. Only point I have been trying to make is that too many people read too much into pictures and never seem to give a benefit of a doubt. Pictures without a story aren't proof of anything. Its a picture and thats it. Then next thing you know someone gets up on a little pedestal and begin to preach the law. It hurts the site regardless of what anyone says. I know at least 5 other members of this site personally and none of us will post a picture on here anymore because of the constant negative reactions. I've seen pictures taken in the dark that are torn apart as an after hours kill even though they weren't. I've seen pictures where the tag wasn't visible torn up as untagged illegal harvests even though they were tagged. Hell, one guy posted a picture of a monster buck last season and it was torn apart because you couldn't see both sides of the rack. So that is a total of 6 members that I know of that were spooked off from posting pics. How many others just like me and my buddies are there? And some think that the self righteous holier than thou attitudes don't hurt the site.

WNY, let me set it straight, I in no way condone any type of illegal activity. I also noticed the block and knew right away what it appeared to be. I am saying not to jump to a conclusion and call someone out in public by a single set of pictures with no other story with it. A private message stating what the appearance was with a disclaimer would have sufficed. The admission that this was in fact an apple block that was set out with the intention of attracting wildlife came out a few posts after and no doubt was an unintentional infraction. Afterall Vietvet freely admitted what it was and didn't try to hide it. Something that a man with integrity does. So I believe him to be an honest person who didn't know the law. Personally, I could care less what someone does on their own property and feel that the ban of off season feeding and mineral supplements is politically driven.

"FYI if it was out for livestock and you shot a deer off it it still is a ticketable offense as baiting." You're only partially right on that one Culver but I'm not going to argue baiting law, do's and don't's. Long story short, too many people seem to jump up on a soap box and preach the law. I've worked in law enforcement for more than 15 years and at times I have worked very closely with Encon Officers. I can tell you that the picture that started this thread presented alone is not a smoking gun of baiting, especially in May or June. I go back to jumping to a conclusion or simple assumptions. And can someone explain why this thread should be locked? No one has been disrespectfull or vulgar. Its a simple debate or discussion that I wouldn't even term as heated.

You know what, a few of you guys jump to conclusions all the time. See a lick or an apple or a kernel of corn and its automatically bait pile. That camera could have very easily been set up in a wooded pasture and the mineral lick could have been intended for livestock. Deer hit my old man's salt lick (beef animals) all the time and it is in the middle of a wide open 10 acre pasture. Rather than give a benefit of a doubt, people get excited, grand stand on a soap box and for what? A mineral lick in May. Something benificial to the wildlife and an offense that even a rookie ECO won't go out and ticket. The self righteousness on this site is just too much at times. I learned my lesson about posting pics on this site and won't do it again. Now we have another person who probably won't post a pic. Its this type of thread that hurts the site. I also agree 100% with 33canuck and NFA's take on things.

Regardless of how you came into contact with the calf, I don't see any neglect on the part of the farmer. Maybe on the cow, but not the farmer. I'll say it again, farm animals die frequently and it sucks.

We have some newborn fawns up north. Saw 1 and found some little tiny tracks in another area.

"She must have been sick if I caught her? It was like an hour old if that And after she went in the Ditch she couldn't get up cuz she was weak.." OK Jordan, now you are changing variables/story. If you were in my pasture rounding up one of my hour old calves I would give you a good solid kick to the rear. Where was the cow? Why would you separate a new born calf from her? She couldn't have been too far. Why didn't you put the calf back in the fence with the mother? If this calf was an hour old it wouldn't have even made it to its feet yet let alone walk to the ditch and collapse. I can promise you that the cow wouldn't have been far away if the calf was only an hour (even 6 hours) old either. The cow will clean up the calf, get all the slim off it, and dry it up and most importantly feed it. One of two things here. It was an older calf that was sick and destined to die or it was a newly dropped calf that should have been put back in the fence with its mother. She would have tended to it properly. Either way, a farmer putting it in the barn is not neglect. Farm animals die and it sucks. Sorry it took so long to reply, just noticed it.

Any experienced law enforcement officer or anyone with an ounce of common sense will know the difference between a cultivated cash crop versus wild growing hemp plants. In most cases the THC content in wild growing hemp plants is so low that you will die of smoke inhalation before you get a buzz off from them. I wouldn't worry too much about it. and yes, it will reseed itself.

Grew up farming and have been around farms all my life. Sometimes you can't save an animal no matter how bad you want to. This was most likely a case of "if it survives the night." (I find it hard to believe any farmer would shoot a calf because it is a bull. Not with the price of beef right now. -be like burining a $100 bill because it's wrinkled) Just because this particular calf died doesn't mean the farmer neglected it or didn't care. I doubt it froze to death. If it was covered in mud and weak enough for you to catch it, it likely had pneumonia or some other disease and was going to die regardless. At least it died in the comfort of the barn and not to a coyote eating its hind end while he is still gasping for breath. Honestly, I probably wouldn't have even brought it into my barn. Last thing I would need is a sick calf infecting all my healthy ones. One thing for certain is farming makes you cold to death.

Thanks everyone. I considered a mount but when I saw the "white" bird post I decided that will be my goal for a mount. I'm not all that into turkey mounts anyway so it will take an exceptionally unique bird for me to get it mounted. Kurt, let me know when you are up here next year and we'll hook up. I wish I knew you were in town, I had a pile of birds scouted this year and no one to hunt with.

I have a field picture and a close up of the beards but for some reason can't seem to get them to upload.

I got into the woods this morning at 4:50 AM and heard gobbling start at 5:05 AM. By 6:45 AM I had heard 3 different birds gobble at least 200 times. All they would do was answer me and not come any closer. I was good and frustrated but decided to give one more series of clucks and yelps before moving my position. I let out a yelp and had a gobble nearly on top of me. I slowly turned my head and saw two birds, one in full strut, not 25 yards in the field behind me. They had snuck in behind me without making a noise. Once the strutting tom turned, I swung around. The other bird was a jake. He wasn't too keen on my movement and started fast stepping away. The tom came out of strut and I shot before he ran to the next county. When I shot, all I knew was the bird wasn't a jake. I had no clue what I had shot. I checked for his beard and found he had two of them growing a little less than an inch apart. The longer beard is just over 10" and the shorter one is 6." His spurs were disapointing at just under 3/4." He weighed 23 pounds. Overall this was my most unique bird to date. I'm tagged out for 2012.

I know I'm fortunate. A few years ago I spoke with a life long turkey hunter and was telling him how easy turkey hunting was and he didn't believe me until he went. After we doubled up on big Toms about 20 minutes into the hunt, he let me know that I have a gold mine and the majority of turkey hunters will never have an opportunity to hunt that type of action. I appreciate it and know I'm lucky enough to have an area that holds numerous birds that don't get pressured. (I give lots of credit to our food plots) On my best day I'm an average caller so I think it is just the volume of birds that helps me out.

Dprice, you're right, over to your west a little ways I'm having more action than I've seen in years. A buddy of mine and I went out Sunday for my first true day turkey hunting this season and we called in 7 birds in less than an hour. I killed one and my partner killed one, both 2 year old birds. I went out yesterday to another location and had 5 come in close but the biggest gobbler stayed out of range. I didn't want to end my season on May 8 with a mediocre bird so I didn't shoot. I'm not getting much action until 8 in the morning and things stay hot until about 10am. Not sure why the early morning isn't as exciting this year. Also, all the responses I got were while walking and calling in the woods. Not much luck in the fields.