All those deer summertime photos-hunting season they are gone

Well if you are like a lot of people who have a pretty good size acreage and hunt there is a good chance you have game cameras around the place so you can get a pretty good Idea of what type of critters roam it especially at night..Its just amazing the amount of critters that come out at night that you never see in daytime. possums-raccoons-bobcats-bears and more..but since you are a deerhunter its those Bucks that you are interested in just like me.You watch them all summer and then come the first week in September they rub off the velvet and they all turn nocturnal..Then comes October when the main breeding takes place and half your bucks do not show up at all..Now what do you do??All your plans to get that 10 point are gone along with the deer..At my place I had 13 bucks from spikes to 10 points on camera.Come October only 4 were showing up..Except for one nice 8 point that came up by the house with some does to feed for months but never showed up on camera ..I am pretty sure my problem is I border a big chunk of national forest and that's where they go..It does not get hunted because there is no access to it..
  So here it is November and most does are bred so now the bucks have to move a lot to pick up a scent of a hot doe and the leaves are mostly gone..
   Once again sitting in my blind passing up a few deer that I have never seen before and here comes a really nice big bodied 8 point which ends up in my freezer that I have no pictures of and have never seen before...I would say that's the story of about 75% of the deer I get..I would sure like to get the one I see on camera..How about you????

2019 season is about over except for Rich guys

Its hard for me to believe 2019 is just about over except for the special rich people who can afford $1000 bows to hunt deer..I have been on this planet for a long time and its hard for me to swallow the price of everything for hunting.Rifle ammo $20 to $50 a box--I still have my first box of 30-06 from 1970 $1.89 my Mossberg Rifle with a 1.5 to 4 power scope and special work to have magazine load from bottom all told $119..Now I looked at my hunting mags from this month and the rifles they were showing went from $899 to $4100 !!! That's nuts..My binoculars are 8 power with great field of view and fit in the palm of your hand weigh about 3 ounces.Hardly know they are around your neck.They had some called Swarovski that were $3800..just what the hell do you see with them and they weighed a pound and appeared about 8 inches wide..Who and the hell would want that brick around their neck.My little pair are in my jacket and zipped up nice and dry and protected while I am plowing thru the brush..To top it off I was in the big city looking around and the Ford dealer had a F-150 for the hunter that has has it all $104,000  that's not a misprint..and I wonder why the magazines all say they are losing hunters..Is this what it takes for a new hunter to get started????
Then I can see why hunting is going down..Then we throw in this countrys overpopulation and shortage of public places to hunt and the many insane laws..Does not look good..

We need to get rid of MDC they are parasites

The MDC is a parasite government organization that feeds off of property owners and takes credit for everything the property owner does..and we the owners are dumb to let this continue..
    First they are claiming ownership of everything on your property that walks swims or flies,but when you look at what they have done to help you its always nothing...They do not help with the land  or critter management--Its you and me..Then they want to charge you for using your property when you have already paid for that privilege with your property taxes..They take money from people that are using your property to hunt and fish and you get nothing..They get to ride around in new trucks,SUVs,boats,4 wheelers ETC.that you paid for....
    Its the people in the big cities that are making the laws for the rural landowners because the MDC has brainwashed them into believing they are saving all the critters...and land..
    Then a few years ago the MDC sees they are having less hunters so they need more money..So whats the solution..They do like religion does.We will let kiddies hunt even though they can not read or write because as they grow up they will think we know it all and they are our next source of income..but from where I sit its back firing.The kiddies find playing with their electronic gadgets much more appealing than sitting on their ass cold,wet and bored out of their mind so they end up never going hunting again...

Its 2019 and where did my deer go ????

When spring time came and I seen my 4 resident does with fawns I felt so good.As the month of May went by within 2 weeks I suddenly did not see any !!!what the hell is going on ??
So I put out all my cameras to see if maybe we had a coyote problem or maybe the bear I see once in awhile.I watch the skies for buzzards so maybe they can lead me to a carcass but the only times they did it was a coon or possum no deer..Even my nose is pretty good at picking up the smell of death but nothing..So here it is the end of October and I do not have one picture of a coyote or bear but I did have one picture of a bears mouth on the camera but none of his body..weird.Thousands of pictures and not one coyote..So I have zero fawn crop for next year..Over the years I usually see 7 or 8 things  seem to be changing and I have no Idea why..
    As for the bucks once again weird..Up until the first week of October I had several nice 8 and 10 pointers and then the week of the full moon peak of the rut(yeah I know game dept still telling you its November) not one of them has showed up on camera again but instead a dozen spikes,forks, and one 8 point all of which I have never seen before show up..We will just have to wait until November when the frustration period kicks in and they really start to move to see if they just went looking for the girls..I sure hope a lot more leaves come off they are really hanging on this year..

DO not shoot wild hogs-are you kidding-shoot the cattle

The MDC has been putting ads and regulations I might add --Do not shoot feral hogs-call them because only they know how to get rid of them. They are stressing that the hogs are non native animals and are causing massive destruction.Hogs do make a mess but they sure as hell are not the non native species that has caused massive destruction of habitat coast to coast north to south..
The MDC and all other Wildlife departments just look the other way and offer ZERO help with the problem..
 THE PROBLEM IS CALLED CATTLE...They are NON NATIVE
This is especially true in the western states where there is still open range grazing .In my old home states of Washington and Idaho its pretty bad in many spots.In Idaho they are trying to put the blame on wolves...In the high country where the elk need to graze those beautiful meadows to fatten up for the winter you can not find them anymore but if you walk thru the meadows you can not avoid stepping in cow shit and the grasses  are gone and water seepages  stompted  dry..It has also moved out the moose population..In fact its a wasteland for all the critters.

In Washington state same story almost.West of cascade mountains no problem because its all private timber company land and they do not want cattle eating up their new trees,but East of the cascade crest big problem ..USFS property and BLM property and they still sell grazing permits.Some areas it looks like a thousand guys went thru with weed wackers and took out everything.It is so dry you can not believe it..
Now in Missouri where I currently reside Thousands of acres have been bulldozed flat and cattle put in.Right off the bat I was overrun with raccoons and possums and the road floods everytime we get a hard rain.
Is there a motto--Maybe it should be when man moves in everything becomes a problem so we must get rid of it-or maybe man....................

Another springtime and new babies

I like the springtime a lot when it comes to certain things like my deer and their new babies.I do not like all the weeds and grass cutting and those dam ticks and chiggers and those storms..like the ones we had last night.
My 3 main does as I call them had their fawns the first week of May or I should correct myself a little and say it was the first time I saw them.Does usually do not take the fawns with them until they can run pretty well..I know my does because they all have some sort of damage to their ears.The one called split ear is about 16 years old now and one with her is her fawn from 6 years ago..Good thing is they all had twins..I will not be seeing much of the fawns for awhile.It seems almost like the does bring their fawns up to show me what they have then hide them for the next 5 or 6 weeks..
      Now if the MDC says the peak of breeding is November and a deer pregnancy  is 7 months then how come my deer have already had theirs..The MDC would not lie would they!!!!
 Now do not forget we have a 4 month either sex mule deer season.Go up on the MDC web site and find out how many were killed...

don,t find the cause "kill them"

Once again the MDC in its stupidity is not listening to the people.They found 1 deer in Taney county with CWD.They had some sort of a town meeting for lack of a better word to inform the people of what they were going to do..The private property owners were mostly against it .What was the MDC solution to this 1 deer with CWD .To draw a circle 1 mile around where this deer was killed and kill ALL the deer in the area.As many as 300-400 hundred!!!!!!That was tried in some other states and was a total failure.All it did was ruin the hunting for decades.Some resorts that depend on hunters to help them thru their lean time went belly up because no one was coming to where all the deer were slaughtered .Like one property owner said this was the rut and that deer could have come from miles away in just a matter of hours.You need to find out how this CWD starts and stop it there.
  In my many decades of hunting and observing  and research I still have it in the back of my mind that this CWD was not around until a foreign species was introduced..CATTLE..and maybe this CWD is a mutant of the mad cow disease..
   Can you imagine the MDC going to a cancer hospital and announcing  we have found a cure and then kills all the people.Then next week here comes another poor cancer person...

MDC to eliminate Rifle hunting

I have been hearing rumors for awhile but it appears the handwriting is on the wall..MDC will eliminate rifle hunting and it will be shotgun only..Hunters have only themselves to blame for letting the MDC take over your property rights and PERSONAL rights.
     It started long ago when they first told people they had to wear "Idiot Orange" because you are to stupid to take care of your self. Safest state in the country is still Idaho where it is not required and if any of you hunt there you know what I am saying is true.Almost zero people wear it and they come from all over the country..Missouri,s statistic do not hold up when you check for hunting accidents because they are including the morons sitting in a truck or house and that is not hunting...Orange does not help any there so why included it.Simple put they have to pump up there statisics to justify taking your rights..Its not legal to tell anyone how to dress PERIOD let alone the color.Whats to keep them from saying you have to wear black and white polka dots?????Judges that let them get away with this need to be FIRED;they are communists..There are laws that say they can not do this but no one is going after them.
  The law is strictly for finding YOU.
Now for the last few years they have been cutting back the rifle season to the shortest in the country.
That's your 2nd clue and giving The baby season more..Lets brainwash the kids because that's the MDC,s future money source.
Number 3 is lets make the so called archery season real long so the rifle guys will quit and then we will make them wear Orange too like other states are starting to do..How the hell can you call it archery when they have scopes,distance meters and a lot more..