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Post by biglakebass on Sept 6, 2017 15:01:03 GMT -6
Trempalau aint too shabby either
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Post by badgerfowl on Sept 6, 2017 15:08:57 GMT -6
Brad--I guess I don't know for sure, but I have read that Buffalo County tends to have higher number of hunters registering? Hard to say. I know Vernon tends to produce some super giants and that did show up in the report. Vernon County--in my opinion--would be a great place to have a farm. If I were looking in WI, I'd be looking at Vernon and Crawford counties. Richland isn't too shabby either.
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Post by smsmith on Sept 6, 2017 15:14:50 GMT -6
If I were looking in WI, I'd be looking at Vernon and Crawford counties. Richland isn't too shabby either. Yep, you're starting to get closer to more people though. I used to have a tenant whose family farmed near Richland Center, the number of deer they had back then was unreal. They usually shot some pretty nice bucks too. I let him hunt my old place a few times, but told him he had to be super aware of scent control and movement. He was amazed at how much harder it was to hunt my place than his family farm. When you've got 125+ dpsm, you can be sloppy and still see deer.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Sept 6, 2017 15:30:57 GMT -6
I really like those areas Tremp/Vernon/Crawford. Pepin and Buffalo are nice too (but spendy). I always look for land in that area just in case Iowa raises tags even more, if they do Vernon County or possibly Pepin might be on the list. I used to live across the border in Lake City, and that area is fun, nice bars, some good fishing. Just good all around.
South Dakota is another possibility, but finding a nice farm out there is nearly impossible.
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Post by kabic on Sept 6, 2017 15:53:03 GMT -6
Trempalau aint too shabby either And it is hard to spell to. Trempealeau
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Post by sd51555 on Sept 6, 2017 20:09:42 GMT -6
Trempalau aint too shabby either And it is hard to spell to. Trempealeau I think that's where we carpooled to buy trunks full of Blatz Light in college.
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 6, 2017 20:24:46 GMT -6
Neighbor has 200 acres in that hard to spell county. Takes his daughter for youth season. She kills a deer every year in an hour or so. He bow hunts maybe a weekend or two. Shoots his buck. Then they have a dozen people there for rifle season. They pretty much shoot a dozen deer a year.
Its just sick. He does ZERO!. They have rented pasture.
He has seen our farm in OTC and marvels how we dont see any deer.
what a shit show.
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Post by mclovin on Sept 6, 2017 22:29:42 GMT -6
Buffalo Co not on the list? I question the source big time From what I have heard very few buffalo county people put their bucks in the book. I've heard this theory a hundred times for various parts of the country. Id be fuckall dumbfounded if the percentage of guys who enter or dont enter bucks varies by more than a few % points anywhere. We all are motivated by the same factors regardless of where we hunt, we all would enter or not enter bucks for the same reasons regardless of geography. Waste of money. Don't care. Don't want to advertise to other hunters.
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Post by Reagan on Sept 7, 2017 4:23:22 GMT -6
From what I have heard very few buffalo county people put their bucks in the book. I've heard this theory a hundred times for various parts of the country. Id be fuckall dumbfounded if the percentage of guys who enter or dont enter bucks varies by more than a few % points anywhere. We all are motivated by the same factors regardless of where we hunt, we all would enter or not enter bucks for the same reasons regardless of geography. Waste of money. Don't care. Don't want to advertise to other hunters. My thinking is a person hunting with an outfitter may be more likely to enter a buck. So an area with more outfitters may have a higher rate of entry. Guys doing their own thing on their own ground are more likely to keep things quiet.
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Post by Sandbur on Sept 7, 2017 6:08:03 GMT -6
Doesn't surprise me a bit. OTC is huge first off, second the habitat there is the best whitetail habitat I've ever personally seen. Third, seems many OTC hunters were smarter or less trusting of the MN DNR than hunters in other parts of the state. I noticed you said "were" instead of "are". reason?
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Post by smsmith on Sept 7, 2017 6:14:51 GMT -6
Doesn't surprise me a bit. OTC is huge first off, second the habitat there is the best whitetail habitat I've ever personally seen. Third, seems many OTC hunters were smarter or less trusting of the MN DNR than hunters in other parts of the state. I noticed you said "were" instead of "are". reason? Should've said were and are. They were smart enough to not shoot the shit out of the herd when they had/have Managed and Intensive units. I guess we'll see if they continue to be smarter/less trusting of the DNR.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Sept 7, 2017 6:32:33 GMT -6
I don't know this for sure, but I'd bet many of the biggest bucks shot in OTC. Live in swamps, thickets, tamarack, most of the time. That area has so much of that cover. Impenetrable for the most part. You can make ATV trails through it, or sit by it in a box stand. But it's tough to hunt.
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Post by smsmith on Sept 7, 2017 7:04:52 GMT -6
I don't know this for sure, but I'd bet many of the biggest bucks shot in OTC. Live in swamps, thickets, tamarack, most of the time. That area has so much of that cover. Impenetrable for the most part. You can make ATV trails through it, or sit by it in a box stand. But it's tough to hunt. I agree. I'd say the same thing for Todd County. I know for a fact that my tamarack/tag alder/cattail swamp is the key to producing and holding decent bucks here.
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Post by batman on Sept 7, 2017 8:19:53 GMT -6
I was amazed at the amount of 20 plus year old conifer plantings in OTC. They sure looked like they were planted specifically for deer hunting - back when there were lots of deer all across MN.
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Post by mnaaron on Sept 7, 2017 8:40:01 GMT -6
I think one difference in OTC is we still have some nice diversity, good cover and ag all mixed together and in some areas of the county people really care and monitoring the health of the herd.
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