Not many hunters like there used to be WHY ?

It may be well that Missouri is in trouble when it comes to deer and turkey..All the reports I have been getting from my area are poor..Now that does not mean the rest of the state is that way..No one seems to have an answer.No one is finding dead deer or turkeys carcases. In my county which will remain nameless in the month of October the MDC reported 3 yes three turkeys for the month..Now I know not many hunt the birds that month but last year it was 112..Are they truthful ????
  Deer hunting was tough this year in many places.First of all the main rut was very early.The second week of October about 2 weeks earlier this year..I know a lot of you think its November like the MDC tells you,but like I have said before if you start seeing fawns in late April and early May just count backwards 7 months.which is the gestation period.Its pretty much the same whether you are in New York or Idaho.I lived and hunted in both places..When I worked for a game dept out west we were told to make sure you tell if asked the rut was November even for the Elk which most Elk hunters know is BS. To make things even harder the weather was not the greatest and the leaves hung on all season which is very short for rifle hunters.They took a day from you and gave it to the kiddie daddy poaching season plus the kiddies get to hunt all the rest of the seasons...
    

They are dumb in Arkansas too

It seems a few weeks ago from the best info I can gather down in Northwest Arkansas in rifle deer season a 72 year old woman was shot..It was the usual answer "I thought it was a deer" Poor woman was just looking for mushrooms..but the articles insinuate she might not have been shot if she had on orange..Thats bullshit.Believe it or not there are more people out there that do NOT know about hunting seasons and why should they???/they do not hunt.I put a lot of the blame on these game departments for them giving these so called hunters a season where you do not have to look for antlers,just shoot and go see if you hit something..OH Hell its a person but its there fault cause they had no Orange on..I hunted Idaho for decades and their safety records are second to none. 65 percent of the hunters in Idaho are from out of state and you had better know what you are shooting at considering they have whitetail,mule deer,elk, moose, sheep,and cattle in someplaces..
   If you have the pleasure of going to hunt there you will see NO ONE wearing orange.Well when I visit other hunters at night they all seem to agree when they see something move they have to make sure first its the game they have a tag for and also its not another hunter because they are not wearing orange..Ask why don,t they since they have that choice most say I did not buy this camo to cover it up with orange..All that orange does is make it easy for the officers sitting in their rigs to spot you..

Free Mule deer hunting trip

I am thinking about starting a guide service again. .It will be for mule deer exclusively.It will include
Bow season as well as rifle season...as written in the MDC rules...I have been lucky enough to live in states that have all 3 major deer species and have a few in the record books.
In most states you have to draw for a tag and areas to be hunted are NOT state wide..Also season is just a few weeks and you can only choose one weapon..In Missouri license is over the counter-no drawings.We are number one in the country in these areas..
Here in Missouri we are so lucky to have a season that is almost 4 months either sex -state wide-and any weapon.. You know then we are loaded with Mulies or else the season would be somewhat shorter..
  In most states a guided Mule deer hunt is 3-5 days and runs 3 to 5 thousand dollars and stuff like packing and skinning etc are not included..Trot lining for turtles was an added bonus..
 My rates will be just a flat $1000 a day and includes packing and skinning and quartering and everything is FREE if you kill one with a 30 inch spread..The area to be hunted is Southern Missouri.
This year it was real slow for mulies. Everyone wanted to hunt whitetails..I wonder why.Some even laughed at me when I asked them if they wanted to hunt mule deer.
   That's about it for now. Phones ringing. Probably calling about the free mule deer hunting trip.
Just remember to check the regs on mule deer hunting they are there..

MDC should be closed down

These people at the MDC have no idea about conservation..They are just like every government group.They are in it for the money and benefits not the critters and lands..
  Most all of their knowledge comes from books written by someone else who claims to be an expert..
I,m an expert too but I am just going to be that expert on my own lands .But evidently I know a hell of a lot more than the MDC .
Why are people so eager to believe what these people say.MDC believes a turtle can go without air for more than 24 hours.If they did not they would stop the trot lines.I can not even attempt to guess the thousands of turtles killed every year..
    Then I have watched the complete destruction of a beautiful little river that had rainbows,smallmouth and hellbenders and everything else.For 10 years I have watched the county and a cement company bulldoze and load up the river bed gravel and haul it away.Now if you get a little dry spell the river drys up..
   Then we have their really dumb laws...If they see a person shoot a squirrel or rabbit out of THEIR
season they will most likely give you a ticket,but  you can kill anything you want without license or seasons if you do it the way I have been watching for weeks..I have seen these guys kill rabbits,chipmunks.foxes you name it and one day a pityful fawn on three legs with what was left of a leg dragging behind him. When momma leaves a fawn they will stay put till the last second.
  You have probably figured out by now who these guys are that are creating havoc to the critters..
guys on bulldozers who just plain do not give a shit about the wildlife. They want more land to put a non native species on..Hmmm by the way the MDC says that's against the law...what a laugh.
 Then in the next breath the MDC says we have to get rid of all the wild pigs they are not a native species they were brought here from another country..Well where in the hell do you think the cattle come from..
   Now that bulldozing has created a hell of a problem for me.More next time

kids with guns

As we all know lately in the news its been a big deal about school shootings. Kids on camera at the walkouts talking about some sort of gun control????
I,m against kids killing kids but what the hell do you do when your local wildlife agencies or whatever they call themselves encourage 5 and 6 year olds how to kill and use a gun and give them a license to do it !!!They can not read or write very well yet but mommy or daddy takes them out and tells them here dear just look thru here pull the trigger and whatever you hit will die.Now lets add a few years to these kids and don,t forget to give them a smart phone????and computer so they can insult each other and get mad and then try think about whats in that kids mind..He knows since 5 years old how to make things disappear by just pointing a gun and pulling the trigger and many times its on themselves..
    This next part is just for kids..If you really give a hoot about kids in school getting killed how about doing something for a situation that kills 20 or 30 times more kids than shootings and that can be controlled to good degree..and that,s motor vehicle accidents..So if all you school kids really want to cut way back on these killings I propose that kids can not get a drivers license until they graduate high school...
       So in conclusion it looks like all that marching on TV all you cared about was getting shot in school and not kids killing each other in other ways..

Google hates me I think

I am no computer guru for sure but everytime I come here for some fun Google changes stuff around just to confuse an old guy...Winter is finally starting to wind down and it looks like most of the critters have made it thru.My foxes are starting to show up pretty regular in daylight and I sure enjoy watching and feeding them .Pappa fox is about 11 years old now but he looks great.His mate has been with him 9 years that I know of..Last year she had 5 pups.Thats the most we have seen.Papa usually gives her New years present every year. He knocks her up.She will have her pups the first of April as usual I hope..
      So far the few small fruit trees I have still look dormant and I hope they stay that way until April and maybe I will get a peach or two..Last 2 years the dam things bloomed the last week of Febuary..
Tried heating and covering with sheets but still lost everything..

Its been a long time since I have been on here mainly because of google.The only thing I could get here was dial up until now.Satelite was such a ripoff I decided I would rather have nothing than those SOBs..Att came out a few months back with a gaget that lets me get everything including phone ..
Things have changed for worst as expected.They have extended the Dad poaching season and now they can do it before and after gun season.
You old guys who supported them for ever can go kiss a cow you are worth nothing..
 Well the total destruction of the little north fork river is now complete.There isn,t even any water now..This feeds Bull Shoals and at one time had rainbows and smallmouth..
 Deer hunting is going downhill fast since 1000,s acres around here have been flattened for cattle also causing more flooding.Who cares its always the guy downstream that gets shit on..