salt, we're gonna have to make that work somehow. I hunt 90% public land around here as well. I have a private farm in southern MO, but I couldn't get you in there. I have a particular piece of public ground I started hunting just last year. My late best friend and I hunted it one weekend last fall, and in 3 days we saw 25 deer. He missed a 6 pt, and we both should have shot does the first evening there.

I went back the last weekend of season and sat 1 evening. I saw 8 does and just didn't take the shot, I have no idea why. Long story short, I'm like you. Don't have a lot of bucks, but I can sure as heck show you the does. The only problem with public land in MO is you can't use doe only tags. You can shoot does, you just have to use your regular season tag. Hey, I've never shot more than 1 in a season anyway, so who cares? [&:]

Let's stay in touch and see what we can work out later this fall. Gonna shoot you a pm here in a sec.