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Post by badgerfowl on Nov 15, 2019 11:36:40 GMT -6
Haha, I see Juneau Co is an island in a sea of red in WI. The last few years my folks owned their place I started to get pics of some P&Y caliber bucks. I blew my chance on the biggest buck I'd ever seen in Juneau County while hunting there in 2011. I don't miss that sand My best buck in 2014 wasn't quite P&Y. 120". I haven't had but maybe a couple bigger on camera over the years. Maybe saw one on stand back in 06 that would have made it. Beautiful 10 point. Long tines. Very few and far between.
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Post by sd51555 on Nov 15, 2019 11:38:43 GMT -6
Your map is from glory days long gone by. It's gonna echo boom. Crash is complete. Hunter attrition well underway. Fence values are going to collapse. Wild guys are gonna be back to stacking monsters in 5 years.
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Post by Sandbur on Nov 15, 2019 12:07:05 GMT -6
Your map is from glory days long gone by. It's gonna echo boom. Crash is complete. Hunter attrition well underway. Fence values are going to collapse. Wild guys are gonna be back to stacking monsters in 5 years. Wolves, cwd disease control have changed the world from back then. I really question that the state will support small areas of trophy management with cwd control areas over much of the state. Won’t happen locally unless we get different manager. Maybe after the state admits they can’t do anything about cwd, 10-20 years?
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Post by sd51555 on Nov 15, 2019 13:26:08 GMT -6
It's gonna echo boom. Crash is complete. Hunter attrition well underway. Fence values are going to collapse. Wild guys are gonna be back to stacking monsters in 5 years. Wolves, cwd disease control have changed the world from back then. I really question that the state will support small areas of trophy management with cwd control areas over much of the state. Won’t happen locally unless we get different manager. Maybe after the state admits they can’t do anything about cwd, 10-20 years? The wolf thing works itself out. CWD doesn't wipe out herds. Epstein didn't kill himself. The state cares nothing about CWD or any other new man-made scourge affecting wildlife and the outdoors. All are a means to ram home their assigned agenda.
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Post by Sandbur on Nov 15, 2019 15:39:50 GMT -6
Wolves, cwd disease control have changed the world from back then. I really question that the state will support small areas of trophy management with cwd control areas over much of the state. Won’t happen locally unless we get different manager. Maybe after the state admits they can’t do anything about cwd, 10-20 years? The wolf thing works itself out. CWD doesn't wipe out herds. Epstein didn't kill himself. The state cares nothing about CWD or any other new man-made scourge affecting wildlife and the outdoors. All are a means to ram home their assigned agenda. Cwd control plans can wipe out herds and meet the state agenda and create state jobs for decades.
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Post by batman on Nov 15, 2019 16:17:52 GMT -6
It's gonna echo boom. Crash is complete. Hunter attrition well underway. Fence values are going to collapse. Wild guys are gonna be back to stacking monsters in 5 years. I really question that the state will support small areas of trophy management with cwd control areas over much of the state. Won’t happen locally unless we get different manager. DNR won't put it to work. But the public is hungry. Deer take down this year but lots of mature bucks taken. Whats happening?
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Post by Freeborn on Nov 15, 2019 17:46:27 GMT -6
I must be in the minority. From seeing what the locals bring in and what I get on cams I seriously believe there'd be a lot of 150-200" deer taken in central mn if left to grow past 2. There's some absolute brutes shot around me but most guys keep it quiet to keep poachers away. I agree, I think there would be allot of 150+ deer shot if we had trigger control. I think APR's would help. maybe the migration of hunters out of zone 1 to Ag areas and the splitting off (segmenting) of wooded deer areas from farms has supressed big buck numbers. As farms consolidate farmers sell non productive land to hunters. In years past farmers probably did not hunt these areas as hard as hunters do today.
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Post by batman on Nov 15, 2019 18:17:24 GMT -6
I must be in the minority. From seeing what the locals bring in and what I get on cams I seriously believe there'd be a lot of 150-200" deer taken in central mn if left to grow past 2. There's some absolute brutes shot around me but most guys keep it quiet to keep poachers away. I agree, I think there would be allot of 150+ deer shot if we had trigger control. I think APR's would help. Its all supply and demand. Nothing more - nothing less.
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Post by Freeborn on Nov 16, 2019 11:32:53 GMT -6
Very little protein available October November December January February March. I think corn is 9%. Thats half of optimal. My soybeans are getting hammered right now but they are probably gone by January. Rather than spin feed maybe I need to add a few more acres of beans? If I went from 3-6 acreas of beans I could carry the deer farther into winter. Hard to say how many deer I would be feeding in January?
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