My 22 year old doe made it another year

Thats a fact and I have her on tape all these years..She has a name Split Ear.Now guess why I call her that..She also has a great big buck fawn and that old girl is the Boss of the place..I do not care if a 10 point buck comes to eat when she shows up and lays her ears back they all run and give her what she wants..All my does had buck fawns this year but some did not make it the first month and I believe I have the culprits on camera..BEARS---Both appear to be males and one looks about 450 lbs..Bears are worse on fawn depredation than coyotes and the bears are showing up on camera more than the coyotes.I like my deer so the bears have to go one way or another.There is really nothing on my place any different than the last 25 years I have been here but I believe because I have one of the last places with a large tract of old growth trees may be it.Many thousands of acres around me have been wiped clean by bulldozers for a non native animal.. Cattle-and MDC complains about pigs.They are nothing compared to cattle-they eat and destroy everything...

Year of the Covid 19

To say this was one different year is a real understatement..Had to tip toe around no matter where you went.Trying to buy even the most basic things like toilet paper became ridiculous mainly once again because of the so called news media.Could not even get seeds for our garden or the food plots for the critters..Then everybody raised their prices for non dam reason except greed..That has always bothered me that when there is a claimed shortage you should not be able to get an item but if you pay an exorbinate price stuff magically appear..Then how about the goverment giving away all the monopoly money and people did not want to work unless you paid some ridiculous amount..Well enough of this I could go on and on... Well spring came and I knew my does had their fawns and I was hoping it was not like last year when they had them but NONE showed up,but what did show up to my suprise BEARS and they are bad news for fawns.I had my suspicions but no proof on my cameras..So this year again they had their fawns and normally when the fawns are a week or 2 old they run with MAMA..So May goes by nothing-same for June-same for July-now I am worried and mad because the bears are still around..Then the first week of August my wifes yells come quick and I look out the window and the whole herd of does each has a big fawn with them and the fawns are going nuts running crazy playing with each other-what a great sight..and split ear my 22 year old doe once again had a great looking buck fawn with her.I just wonder why they all waited so long to bring their fawns up. All the fawns look like bucks so heres hoping the deer I never see had some doe fawns

Worst hunting season for me ever

This is the first time in 50 years I could not go hunting and it just hurts for me to even acknowledge it...The fact is old age finally caught up with me and I just had to use my head and get out of the woods.. I could shoot one out the window anytime I feel like it but that is not me..The one doe my wife feeds just had her at least 20th birthday and she was mature when the wife started feeding her..Friends will always look at her and say how do you know its the same one and I reply simple--look at her right ear its split right down the middle and guess what we call her---YUP "Splitear" and show them pictures from years ago.. I have always taken pride in the fact I hunted and found the game by myself and I did not kill more than I can use..I hunted 7 different states on public land and went 50 years getting my animal-even put a few in t he record books...Unlike some of these guys I read about in hunting magazines who go out with 5 guys following them and being shown what to shoot.I maintain if I turned one of these guys loose on my place he would mostly get lost and starve to death..They are not hunters just shooters.Craig Boddington -Buck Mcneely and Zumbo come to mind.They make a bad name for the once a year hunters...