My pops and I decided to head over to our place in Iowa to check out how our clover, corn, and soybeans are coming in. After checking a few plots, we crossed our creek and came around this little bend and up into our main cornfield. I was shocked to see a big bull standing in the middle of the field. I looked to my right, and about crapped when i saw another dozen or so cows and calves standing next to the creek bottom in the field. We hurried and got behind them so they couldn't run farther into our property. As I drove up towards the building we have with a phone, we saw our corn. About 10 acres of it completely destroyed by the cows. They had just absolutely thrashed it. We will not for sure get a crop. My dad and I both were just fuming, but he had the good sense to be kind on the phone to the people who had their cows in there. Some older lady that farms next to us owns the cows. We decided to go down to the cattle and kind of run them towards their home. I took the .22-250 i had in the back of the truck, put in 3 rounds, and headed down to the creek bottom where they were at. Another great sight there, they had everything torn up and pounded down. They were all standing in the creek, so i shot a round off into the ground. A few of the cows and calves took off, but a bull and some cows stayed. i shot another round, they didnt move. just mooed at me. Shot #3 went under the bull and into the creek. He just stood there. By then, i saw his massive cojones and decided that it probably wasn'ta great idea to stay there. Even a dirt clod to the head wouldn't make him move.

The cows have defintely been there for 2-3 weeks. they had been out and another neighbor told us, but they were supposed to have been retrieved and the fence fixed.The lady said her fence is good, and ours is bad, so a logging crew will be over making fence next week or week after. We fixed her fence last year when she purposely let her cows in because they had no food in her pasture. It's sickening that people like this can claim ignorance and let their cattle destroy other people's property. Hopefully, we'll get some reimbursement to buy some more stuff to put out for the deer. We were really relying on our corn to hold deer through the winter. That corn wasn't cheap either, it was ROUND UP ready corn.right about now, i'd really like to take a hand pump full of Atrazene and spray 10 acres of her corn or just mow it off like her cattle did to ours. It's been decided in our family that next time cattle get out, the rifle is going to come out and it's gonna be shoot and shut up.

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