Recent content by BenAllgood

Sounds familiar. The guy that came out to dart it was from Loranger. He said he was just over this way taking all the animals from a pen a few miles away, but he said it was all whitetails in that one. He wasn't sure why LDAF didn't contact someone closer than an hour away.

Yep. Between Galvez and St. Amant.

I live in a suburban area Everything is cleared and subdivisions and strip malls are the rule here. I doubt there's more than a handful of whitetails within a couple of miles from here. But, this showed up today. I called wildlife and fisheries who had our department of ag and forestry call me...

Not that I'm aware of. They have a strong relationship with many clubs and landowners across the state. It's like a crowd sourced dataset. Another thing that helps is the way a lot of people handle the deer they kill down here. I haven't seen alot of gutted in the field deer. Most deer are...

Louisiana has a very strong working DMAP program. Lots of clubs take advantage of this. They have a huge dataset to draw from. I went to drop off jawbones one time and there was a very large conference room with envelopes of jawbones everywhere. This was for one area, and there were thousands...

I've hunted in 2, 4, 6, an 9 also. Those dates do seem to line up with what I've seen. The LDWF have done lots of sampling all across these areas where they pull fetuses and measure to back date when they were bred. In Kentucky, you have much more visibility than most of the places I've...

Awesome! Congratulations!

Great buck! Congratulations.

Beautiful buck! Congratulations!

Awesome buck. Congratulations!

Fur type and tail tip coloration looks like a coyote.

I put a camera in a new location yesterday, and got a pic of a what might be a 10 pt that I've not seen before. Even on small acreage with a few cameras, bucks can avoid them. This one covers a wide area, so I had to crop it in a good bit.

It's not so much about the water harming the meat for me, as it is dealing with all the wet meat when processing. Like I said, for decades, I put the meat in an ice chest and kept it covered with ice with the drain plug open to let the water out. Then, I got a chance to hunt a couple places...

I prefer to keep the meat dry by putting it in bags and have ice around the meat but not in contact. I'll freeze water in bottles or plastic tubs sometimes. Or, I've put ice inside dry bags and position them to where they don't leak as they melt. I did the ice on top of the meat leaving the...

I like big 8s