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BowEd:
I can't remember when I've seen misquitos hovering around while hunting in the end of december up here,but it's happening.It's late muzzle loader season.
Been watching deer feed in the corn field.Seeing around a dozen to a half a dozen or so every time out.Bucks are pushing does around occasionally.
I have other hunters on both sides of my property in elevated blinds.I hear an occasional shot once in a while in the distance but not from us yet.
Bow hunting is permitted but pretty sure we are all toting muzzle loaders.
1 more tag to fill for me.It's an antlerless tag.So looking to shoot a big old doe.

Morgan:
Same down here. Be nearly 80° today and mid 70’s tomorrow. Sure strange for late December in eastern Oklahoma. 70° days are fairly regular here off and on in December, but this one has felt more like late March than December. I don’t hate it one bit.

BowEd:
Season runs till the 10th of january here in Iowa.I'm letting 2 out of state hunters from Wisconsin park their pickup on my yard to get to their platform blind across the fence from a shorter distance.Nice fellas.Sure hope they get a shot.I can't tell them their business but I would of put their platform blind in a different spot.
They have to watch deer in my cornfield on my side of the fence and let them go.Hard rules but I make them stick to the law.
They have to buy a license,habitat fee,& then their tag.
Total for deer for them buck or doe is $644.00
For turkey it's $265.00.
That's not counting their cost of their platform kits they bought.Conservatively it probably costs them $2000.00 per person not knowing what the land owner charges them also.All because of the reputation this area has for harboring large bucks.
Being a resident landowner my fee for an extra late muzzle loader antlerless tag is $15.00 because I used up my cheap $2.00 bow tags.No cost for hunting license or habitat fee.
Quite a difference.Who REALLY gets rich from these hunting seasons?
Land leasing by outfitters for hunting in this area is in the area of $30.00/acre.Demographically that can be different too.

gifford:
Down here in KC, the record high for this date was 66 degrees and it occurred 66 years ago. Well, it is 72 degrees at our local weather station. So new record high. The record low for KC on Christmas Eve was -18 degrees, set in 1983.

Pat B:
49 degrees here on Christmas morning here. I think this will be one of our warmest Christmases on record. Hope Santa packed his Bermuda shorts, Hawaiian shirts and flip flops.  ::)

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