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Fawns are affected by CWD so as a result I would expect it's passed from mother to offspring and buck to doe however I can't recall reading that word for word in a study. ( I have tried to familiarize myself with most of the work on CWD).


I also assume that the language that passed still outlaws feeding in CWD zones? I can't find the exact language but I know that was in the proposed language.
I had just completed graduate school and had a SUV with 400,000 miles on it.

Sept 2001 there was 0% financing I needed a truck

I chose the GMC Sierra Z71, Kept is for about 12 years sold it to a friend and they are still using it some. It was a great truck
Thanks gonna cook some doves tomorrow
Trying to decide what to do with ours. What did you marinade/brush them with before or after searing?

Little hammers are pretty proud of their doves and wanting to help work on them for dinner trying to give them options on how to do it

re: Yellowstone experiences

Posted by Da Hammer on 9/4/26 at 5:15 am to
I LOVE Yellowstone, Grand Teton and even more so Glacier NP.

The biggest thing I learned in Yellowstone is the roads... It is huge to make the loop around the entire park (the main road basically loops the exterior of the park) will take you an entire day, it's that big of a place.

We hiked to Lonestar Gyser several times, it only erupts every 2-3 hours we have caught it twice it's pretty neat.

Not sure how much snow there is but climbing Bunsen's peak, isn't super physically demanding but a beautiful view. Some of the other peaks if they have no snow are beautiful as well.

Lamar valley is amazing the number of animals you can see from the car or getting out of it and walking a few miles is simply amazing. I would recommend hitting this in the evening and staying until dark one night it's really cool. Not to mention the stars are amazing at night out there and if the northern lights are active at all you can see them from there but timing may be off but I'm no expert on this....

Yellowstone has amazing scenery but the animals and the geology are what make the park IMO. The scenery in Grand Tetons and Glacier are better IMO, that being said if you told me I could never leave yellowstone for the rest of my life I would die happy. It's a real treasure.

re: Red Snapper

Posted by Da Hammer on 8/26/26 at 11:45 am to
It's interesting on the numbers supposedly Lousiana has the best system and the other gulf states are copying it....

The weather for fourth of July was likely the best of the summer IMO, we kicked the shite out of snapper that weekend it was dead calm and 5/person, I have no earthly idea how many were caught that weekend but it would have been high.

However the rest of the summer at least on the weekends has been pretty abysmal we canceled going to our camp 5 times this summer because wind was too bad to drive to Venice and go. I can't see how we hit the numbers we did this year with the weather, unless TONS/majority of people are fishing during the week when it was typically calmer and I was stuck in the office.

If we can catch 25% in one weekend with good weather I don't see how we can open for two weekends now for 4%? Either way we will take advantage of this weekend and change gears to doves the following. No matter what I appreciate the state trying to get us more opportunity it beats the hell out of two fish for two weeks which was the case not that long ago. It's a HUGE step in the right direction even if not perfect. Hopefully the weather cooperates.

re: Red Snapper

Posted by Da Hammer on 8/26/26 at 6:10 am to
We will be out there weather permitting. While the winds look good looks to be a high chance of storms in the area.

Everyone be careful the late August thunderstorms can get bad quickly. Hopefully we will all have large openings in the weather to get out and get back.

re: Vintage Tractors

Posted by Da Hammer on 8/24/26 at 5:57 am to
I see them around in use all of the time. Especially the 4020.

Those metal seats on the 8N or a 6N are some kind of uncomfortable!
There are really no words for this. Skip brought so much to LSU and to Louisiana. I can remember how much fun I had as a kid at his LSU baseball camps in the early 90's. His version of college baseball was so much fun to watch it was always amazing. Thanks for everything coach.

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Forgot about the meteor shower. Got up to do my normal run at 4 am and saw several. Cool way to make an early morning run better.

re: new duck property

Posted by Da Hammer on 7/29/26 at 3:41 pm to
you never know. My land is flooded by the big black and MS river and it typically grows like crap without help.

re: new duck property

Posted by Da Hammer on 7/29/26 at 10:00 am to
Yes IF the dirt has been fertilized properly.

Without help from chemicals it typically comes up and doesn't amount to a whole lot.

re: new duck property

Posted by Da Hammer on 7/29/26 at 5:44 am to
Duck potato is an interesting food source.

At the mouth of the MS river it is absolutely the preferred food for Pintail and Canvasbacks they absolutely love it. Everywhere else I have been it's a potential food but not something I find they go out of their way for.

This late in the game you may still be able to plant Jap Millet and get a decent crop however I would be tempted to leave what you have if you already have water and go with it.

re: The Dichotomy of the Sportsman

Posted by Da Hammer on 7/24/26 at 6:39 am to
It's funny I am in the exact same place.

I still absolutely LOVE to hunt I love to go and I spend every moment I can making the land we hunt better.

However I really don't like killing animals anymore. I often feel bad for them before pulling the trigger.

I told my sons last year I likely wouldn't kill another turkey, I am sure I will here or there but I just enjoy going out and calling them in or watching them succeed.

I'll kill deer only when we need more meat to fill our annual meat quota.

It's totally odd how that happens ten years ago, five years ago I was a bonafide killer/hunter now I enjoy the place we hunt more than killing what lives there.
Yeah…. Was a solid no for me before….

200 acres for 20k nope nope nope
I can't stand the idea of a competition for deer hunting.

However it will be appealing to many as you can group up a few people and make a road trip hunt on likely decent property for not a ton of money. I didn't see team size but would probably be hard to hunt Ohio with accommodations, and land to hunt for less than 5k a piece assuming a 4 man team.

re: Evinrude/Etec repairs

Posted by Da Hammer on 7/21/26 at 12:48 pm to
Rookie Boats pass christian.
You are trying to suppress weeds and give our soil armor from the sun.

With a bushhog it creates thatch but it balls up in rows, doesn't give you good coverage and is too thick in many areas to allow your planted plants to grow through.

With a roller crimper you crimp and terminate at the "yolk" stage of the seed formation process and the plants lay down and protect the soil health and allow the plants to grow.

I'm very old school and have no earthly idea how to host a picture these days but I have some very good ones from this spring I can post up. The idea is to suppress weeds and also keep your microbes from cooking especially right now. I tested our soil temperatures last weekend and there was an average 18-23 degree difference between under the thatch and exposed areas in peak heat of the day.

re: Daylight Savings Time

Posted by Da Hammer on 7/16/26 at 6:47 am to
Think about dinner time at a hunting club in the winter. Once you get done helping everyone find, load and clean deer most nights you won't eat dinner until 8-9pm that will suck bigly.

I'm ok with the move but I am a morning person and really prefer earlier sunrises rather than later.
We don’t spray we are full regenerative at our place. That being said a roller crimper wouldn’t help you anyway it only kills hollow stem plants. Weeds will get rolled and pop right back up.

As others have said not all weeds are bad.

re: Fall food plot planting dates.

Posted by Da Hammer on 7/15/26 at 6:55 am to
I used to always plant as close to October 15 as possible and it always worked out.

Over the last five years we have had some years where that wasn't the best timing due to rain. I also have a lot of clay hill top fields vs a lot of bottom land fields. There is a huge difference in moisture requirements and while that seems plainly obvious it took a few years to realize this in practice that they can't always be planted at the same time.

So we plant mid October after we have had a rain to help the dirt and before another rain coming. We then come back and side dress with nitrogen approximately 2 weeks later when we can time it before a rain. This has led to our best fields yet in fall and summer. This year I will have a bumper harvest of summer cash crops doing this.