I use the width of his pad print. If its 5″, he’s a 5′ bear. 6″ is a 6′ bear. Anything over 6′ in Wisconsin is a shooter.

I too feel for you and your situation. Divorce is never easy. Try to remember why you fell in love with her. Try to remember that you didn’t love everything about her, and she didn’t love everything about her, but the good things outweighed the bad. Focus on the good things.

Even after a divorce, you’ll still have her in your life forever, as you will be in your children’s lives.

As hard as it can be, strip away all the BS and talk to her about what you are really feeling.

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So while my husband was packing for up north last weekend I left him a list to pack, which included the example in the picture. I’m needing some opinions here. I guess my note wasn’t very clear and I’m wondering what you all would have packed if you saw this note. Thanks in advance!

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punctuation wasn’t your downfall, it was poor penmanship! Proper punctuation is the difference between “Lets eat, Grandma” and “Lets eat Grandma”

Anytime I want my wife to pick anything up at the store, I’ll whip up a list in Word and print it or I text it to her phone. I have terrible penmanship, too!

As long as they don’t screw up my turkey hunting, we’ll get along just fine! WFSC had lots of tents there Wednesday morning

After all this turkey talk, I’m going to immortalze a big old tom tomorrow morning. Should I put up a make shift head stone where he flops over in the woods?

the oldtimers around here used the saying “when the leaves on an oak are the size of a squirrels ears, you’ll find morels”. They were pretty close on that one.

There’s nothing green in the woods of Vernon County yet. I’m still thinking it will be Mother’s Day before they are out in earnest. They might pop in isolated open areas sooner, but I won’t bother putting a bread sack in my turkey vest this week or next.

I always look for dandelions blooming, lilacs blooming and asparagus sprouting as signs that morels are popping as well. As cold as this Spring has been, I’d expect it may be Mother’s Day before we see any here in western Wisconsin

They have lots of biker weekends there. I know a gal who bartended there for a couple of these “weekends”. She said most of the people who do the “clothing optional” thing really should not!

There’s a lot of people that don’t look real good with clothes on. I don’t want to think about them as “naturists”!

I’ve snowblowed lots of driveways and raked lots of leaves for my elderly neighbors and others who needed a hand.I never expected anything in return. I hoped that maybe someday if I need a hand someone will help me out. “Pay it forward” would solve a lot of our society’s problems IMHO

When my son was in college in La Crosse, move out week was a riot. We would have to have a person “guard” his stuff as we moved him out of a 3rd floor apartment. We had started just piling his things on the curb as I made trips to his new place with my truck. I returned to find people loading up his stuff. They thought, “if its on the curb, its free”. Thats when we decided someone needed to stay with his stuff or it would all be gone!

Occasionally, I end up dragging things home that my sellers don’t take when they move out and the new owners are unhappy about it. I load up whatever item they want removed, just to keep peace with the customer. I’ve never had to take any of it to the dump. I just put it at the end of my driveway and someone comes along who thinks they need it.

The best one was when I put an old TV out. It sat through two rain storms before a couple of young guys stopped and threw it in their truck and tore off like they had stolen it! I was just glad I didn’t have to pay to get rid of it!

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After this past winter – hard to imagine…

Climate Change that issued the 32-volume, 2,610-page report here early Monday, told The Associated Press: “It is a call for action.” Without reductions in emissions, he said, impacts from warming “could get out of control.”

One of the study’s authors, Maarten van Aalst, a top official at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said, “If we don’t reduce greenhouse gases soon, risks will get out of hand. And the risks have already risen.”

Twenty-first century disasters such as killer heat waves in Europe, wildfires in the United States, droughts in Australia and deadly flooding in Mozambique, Thailand and Pakistan highlight how vulnerable humanity is to extreme weather, according to the report from the Nobel Prize-winning group of scientists. The dangers are going to worsen as the climate changes even more, the report’s authors said.

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For anything to be considered a scientific “fact” it has to be measurable and repeatable, time after time, with the same results.

Given the fact that we went from Global warming to Climate Change shows the results are NOT repeatable.

The Earth has gone through dozens of periods of warmer and then cooler periods. Its a natural cycle that can last for thousands of years.

People think that we have a huge impact on the climate. We do have some, but its the arrogance of humans to think that we can control EVERYTHING! We can’t, and that includes the climate. Mother Nature prevails and heals herself. It just takes hundreds if not thousands of years to happen.

The talking heads on the news were jabbering about how the climate will go into another Ice Age if Yellowstone’s volcano blows off a big eruption. Did my SUV cause that? I doubt it.

Your line from Thoreau really says it all. Hunting and fishing for some is about success and harvest, and I, too, enjoy those days. But the simple act of being part of nature makes up for all the days where success and harvest are limited.

If you hear hens with no gobbling, try calling in the hens.
If you have a bird that you know has his harem with him, you won’t call him away from live hens. Best bet is to call to the boss hen and get her worked up. Hens have a heirarchy just like toms to. If she thinks that a new hen is making a move on her man, she’ll be over to set things straight. With a little luck, old Mr Longbeard will tag along behind her and you can shoot him in the face!

I don’t know of any online tutorials, but I do have 30 years of turkey hunting experience.

1. Start soft and infrequant and work up from there. Some birds like the TV show, power calling, but most like it soft and sweet. You can always increase frequency and volume as the bird responds. If you over call right away, you can turn them off real quick.

2. when in doubt, sit tight and shut up. Birds that answer every call are asking you to come to them. Get quiet and make them come looking for the bird that WAS calling over here, but got quiet. Lots of birds have been killed by making them get curious about the hen that stopped calling.

3. Every morning and every bird is different. Some mornings they will gobble at every sound in the woods. Tomorrow they are dead silent.

4. carry lots of calls. Some birds like box calls, some like slate calls. Gotta have what they like to make them talk!

Like I said in #1, I like to start soft and slow. You need to “take their temperature” and guage their activity level.

I had a bird that I killed a few years ago. I hunted him myself and with others for 3 weeks. Every day he flew down, went his strut zone and hung out for 3 hours before he wandered off. We could get within 100 yards of his roost, call him down, but he always went to his strut zone. Finally, I went and waited for him at his strut zone. That morning he hung in the roost woods for 2 hours! I moved about 50 yards closer to him, and with one call he ran 400 yards across an open field to his death! 26 pounds, double 10″ beards and 1 1/4″ spurs.

My point is that even the most “predictable” bird can and will be unpredictable at some point in the season. Being able to adapt will kill more birds than trying to use a “Step 1, step 2, step 3” type of approach.

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I’m hoping for a Perry-Howe matchup at 174. After the battle they had in the Big 12 championship match, thats gonna be the match of the tournament.

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Good match, but it’d be boring. I’m hoping for Storley in the finals!

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you didn’t see their Big 12 finals match. From my perspective, Howe was screwed out of 2-4 points on VERY questionable “no call” situations. Howe lost on riding time. Howe is on a mission to vindicate that loss.

Granted, Perry’s leg riding/power half ride gets boring, but I still want to see a re-match!

Before I had a little blue eyed, blond haired grand daughter, these things didn’t affect me the way they do now.
I can’t imagine how hard this is for her family.

Prayers sent!

I used to watch the Ness brothers wrestle in high school. Total studs IMHO! Hope he can join his brother as a national champ.

I’m hoping for a Perry-Howe matchup at 174. After the battle they had in the Big 12 championship match, thats gonna be the match of the tournament.

Ed Ruth has to wrestle the 1 guy to beat him so far this year in tonight’s semi-final. This match will be better than the final tomorrow.

Lots of good kids from Wisconsin wrestling for various colleges this weekend. Its fun to see their names associated with such a high level competition.

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If you’re serious about buying educate yourself online and research realtors and hire one.

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And good luck finding one that is actually helpful AND knowlegable and not just interested in the commision

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True, but it can be done. You don’t want to do all the leg work and then go thru the listing agent. No matter how fair they say they are they already have a relationship with the sellers.
Thanks to the internet and reciprocity you can view all listings.
Be diligent, walk properties without contacting any agents. Talk to neighbors. DNR lake info.
When it’s time to buy is when you need a savvy, educated agent that will protect you. Water tests, septic certifications, surveys,etc…

Remember, as the buyer you don’t pay any commissions, the seller does.

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I would NOT advise anyone to walk properties without permission. That can be considered trespassing. If a property is listed, you need to inform the listing agent or the owner that you’d like to access their property.

As others have said, do your home work and get a reputable Buyer’s Agent to represent you. Get someone who is local and has experience in the particular type of property you’re looking for. Buying real estate is too big of a deal to trust an inexperienced agent or worse, try to do yourself, unless you’ve had LOTS of experience in buying and selling.

I clean mine twice a year. Luckily, my dryer sits directly on an outside wall, so the vent pipe is about 8″ long. I do use my air compressor to blow out the dryer. Stick the nozzle in where the filter is, and blast out the interior of the dryer. Then I clean the vent pipe.

2×6 construction is easier to finish inside IMHO. I have in floor heat and I didn’t cut an expansion joint for 1 reason. Once its poured, you cannot with any degree of certainty know where the tubes lay in the concrete. And once a tube is compromised, you have to abandon that loop, leaving a big dead spot in the floor that the other loops won’t be able to make up for.

Check with your insurance agent on the wood burner in a garage. They may not cover it. Something about gasoline vapors and open flames that they get worried about!

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Cornucopia is 4 miles West, Bayfield is about 14 miles East. Those would be the closest options.

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Cornucopia is TINY, TINY, TINY. Bayfield, Washburn or Ashland are your only nearby options.

As others have said, its mega crowded. If you’re not in the parking lot at dawn, expect a 2-3 mile walk to get to the parking lot and then 1-2 miles on ice.

Ice creepers and trekking poles are a great idea. Some areas of ice are snow covered and some are bare. Inside the caves are smooth as glass and twice as slippery.

Bring snacks and water. There’s no concession stands at the caves! There’s no bathrooms, either, so plan accordingly! (this is more for the ladies!)

If you can stay over on Sunday night, you’ll have fewer people come Monday morning and you’ll get better photos

A friend just came back from there this weekend. On Sunday morning she was the 3rd car in the lot at 6am. When they returned at noon, it was a nightmare of cars.

Several communities in our area are requiring residents to run their water in a pencil sized stream. If we don’t and we have a freeze up, its on our dime.

I’ve been checking the temp of my water twice a day for about a week. The coldest I’ve had is 39 degrees. I have been running my water, just in case. I doubt the City will lower our water bills, but water is cheap compared to a plumbers service call and the inconvenience of not having water for several days.

sturgeon spearing is as much a cultural thing as it is a fishing/hunting thing. People in the Fox Valley take spearing as serious as deer hunting. Wisconsin obviously treats sturgeon differently than Minnesota does. During open water season you can’t even bring them in the boat to unhook and release them, but come February, heck, ram a spear at them! Not sure I understand that logic.

The Wisconsin DNR clearly is doing something right with this population of fish. The Fox River and Wolf River system are the envy of all in regards to sturgeon habitat/rearing. People come from all over the world to see them spawning in April and countless biologists come to study them as well, and given the size of the harvested fish, they’re doing something right.

Personally, I can’t bring myself to kill a fish thats as old as my father, or grandfather for that matter!

How can I improve my eagle recipes?

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now I’m hungry for lamb chops!

a little less gas pedal and a little more following distance would make a world of difference for these drivers!

Instead of complaining about this year’s brutal cold, I’m going to go up to Lake Superior in two weeks to see the ice caves that haven’t been accessable since the early 2000’s. I’ve been told they are absolutely incredible.

Yes, its cold out. But God gives us beauty in every season. Its up to US to see it and be thankful for it!

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it will be handy for the hunter can’t wait to get stopped with a deer that was called in and the warden has to verify it

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When you call in a turkey kill, they give you a verification number that is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to write down and keep with the bird. Same thing on deer in Missouri. I personally register my turkeys from the field and write the verification number on the carcass tag with a Sharpie marker. That way I’m completely legal, including resistration before I even get to the truck.

The bottom line is that the people who will cheat and scam the system are already doing things wrong. The majority of hunters are ethical and follow the rules, regardless of how they change. Many of us followed “earn a buck”, even though we didn’t agree with it. Trespassers don’t follow no trespassing signs, where the ethical hunter knows where the boundary is and won’t cross it for any reason.

Honest and ethical hunters are honest and ethical no matter what, and cheaters are always cheaters, no matter what. JMHO.

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The only question on age of a deer is if its a fawn or adult. No mention of age.

I’m all for it. Missouri does it as well as Minnesota. We do it with turkeys. The amount of money paid to registration stations, added to the DNR staff that tabulate all the registration info can be spent in other, more useful ways.

The guys that sit in the bar after hunting go there wether they have a deer to register or not. I don’t stay after registering my deer. I need to get home, hang, cape and skin my deer. Then I need to empty the truck and re-stock the lunch cooler. Then I wash my clothes. Then I can shower and have a bite to eat before I collapse for the evening. Morning comes and its hopefully a repeat of the prior day.

Its time for the Wisconsin DNR to enter the 21st century and do away with hand written, paper registrations

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WI DNR gathers data from registrations to be used in the SAK formula http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/WildlifeHabitat/documents/DTR/SAKformula.pdf

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Not sure what your point is here. I’m not talking about SAK. All I said was that the form we fill out at the time of registration asks sex”(doe or buck) and age (fawn or adult) and I have witnessed the registration of hundreds of deer in my 30+ years of deer hunting in Wisconsin.

Nowhere on that form does it ask the age of the adult deer. I’ve only been to one registration station where they were asking to examine the jaw bone on the deer that were registered, and that was voluntary, so their results were skewed. No one with a trophy deer would let some biologist slice open their bucks cheek to get to the lower molars, so most of the deer being examined were yearling bucks and adult does.

If the DNR wants this info they will set up voluntary check stations, just like the other States that use phone in registrations.

I also know that in small towns where everyone knows everyone, there are bars that won’t even go out to put the tag on the deer. They just ask “hey Joe, what did you shoot?” Joe says “a little 4 point” and they hand Joe the metal tag to put on his deer. I’ve witnessed and been part of that more than once.

The bottom line is that as budgets get squeezed, certain expenses need to be cut. This one is an easy choice.

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It’s just as easy to manipulate at a registration station. No one checks the deer that you bring to see that you’re registering what you say you are. Heck, most people don’t even bring the deer!

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Probably why the MN (and now WI) DNR decided to say the heck with in person registration. Registration station attendants were largely untrained and didn’t give two rips about registering correctly. There’s a difference with registration data in WI and MN though. WI actually gets some data about the age of bucks registered which drives the SAK formula. MN doesn’t keep any kind of data on maturity of bucks.

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The only question on age of a deer is if its a fawn or adult. No mention of age.

I’m all for it. Missouri does it as well as Minnesota. We do it with turkeys. The amount of money paid to registration stations, added to the DNR staff that tabulate all the registration info can be spent in other, more useful ways.

The guys that sit in the bar after hunting go there wether they have a deer to register or not. I don’t stay after registering my deer. I need to get home, hang, cape and skin my deer. Then I need to empty the truck and re-stock the lunch cooler. Then I wash my clothes. Then I can shower and have a bite to eat before I collapse for the evening. Morning comes and its hopefully a repeat of the prior day.

Its time for the Wisconsin DNR to enter the 21st century and do away with hand written, paper registrations