Crazy Iowa Bucks
 

Anyone seen these pics yet, crazy bucks in Iowa, someone sent these to me, sorry if they have already been on here. Seems excessive to kill that many trophies really puts a hurting on the gene pool in that area.[/align][/align][/align]"Not too many slouches in that truck bed.[/align]
[/align]14 tags, 3 days, 1 square mile[/align]
[/align]All of these deer were taken in Alamakee County, Iowa, all within 1/2 mile[/align]of the farm house in the background.[/align]
[/align]Life is good in Alamakee..."[/align]

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Pic #2

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Those have been around while. From about 5 different states now.

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That is alot of BIG deer in that trailer. You would think that wold hurt the genes and the pop. in that area.

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That says to that Iowa is the place to go if you are going to buy a hunt. Screw Illinois, all we have are little deer. Iowa is the bomb! Don't even bother wit Illinois.

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holy s*** thats a lot of deer nice racks too

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I heard they were from around Bone Gap, Illinois.:D

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I had heard they from a game farm that was closing so they shot all there bucks!! Walt
PS. and I heard they were from about every state but Michigan!!:D

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I thought it was finally figured out that those pictures were from a deer processing business somewhere in Iowa or Canada. They have been around for a few years.

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I guess no matter where they are from it is a great looking bunch of bucks

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Yea theirs no way that story is true...after about 5 shots every deer within a 1/2 mile would be outta there

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It's Pennsylvania. Iowa doesn't have mountains like the ones you see in the background ;)

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First, I do not know where there deer were shot.

Second, It looks like Iowa to me, and I live here.
The tags look right.
The evergreens look like Eastern red cedar, which is right.
The mixed hardwoods look right.
The deer look right. Deer in Iowa tend to be typical and do not have much white around the eyes and nose. They look just like these deer.
The buildings look right, at least they don't say somewhere else.
There are places in Iowa where you could take that many big buck off of a square mile if you did drives and shot about every big one. I rather doubt this part of the story but there are several places in Iowa with 200 deer in a square mile. Most are urban, on military reserves, state parks or in rough country like in the picture. There is enough food because the deer are free range and travel to nearby farms either in the low flood plain or the high glacial plain.

Last- There are very many places in Iowa that look very much like those hills in that picture. We call them hills in Iowa. Along the Missouri River there are the Loess Hills, a range of hills. These are made of wind blown soil that is 400 feet thick in places. Some of these hills are well over 200 feet higher than the land below them. Along the Missippi River there are areas that the glaciers did not flatten and a picture like this could be taken all along the Eastern border of Iowa. In addition, there are the Des Moines,the Big Sioux, the Iowa, the Skunk, the North, South, and Middle Raccoon Rivers, the Nishnabotna along with a host of other small rivers and creeks. Any of these have at least some parts that look much like that picture.

Where do you think the deer in Iowa live anyway? It can get bitterly cold, -28 deg, and they cannot live out in that open corn field after harvest. After harvest they just go there to feed.

Again, I do not know where that picture was taken, or the story behind it. I just know that it looks like it COULD be Iowa to me.

I'd like to hear from some more Iowans about this .

Bob


Edit addition-
My father used to be a planning engineer for the USDA Soil Conservation Service. He has shown me a gully that has a verticle face over 100 feet high. Loess soil is strange stuff. It is from the last ice age and is gound up material the wind picked up as the glaciers receeded. If you look at it under magnification it is made up of angular particles of mixed minerals. When exposed it erodes readily on slopes. A single rain storm on a tire track left by a vehicle can slice a gully several feet deep. The narrow gully is very slow to widen because loess soil does not seem to erode on the verticle. A cliff can be stable but a bare slope is not.

Loess soil looks poor because of its yellow color but because it is wind blown it has a variety of minerals and is actually very good ag soil. The Yangsee (yellow) River in China is called that because of the color of the loess soil it carries. China and Iowa have the largest deposits of this stuff but some of it is almost everywhere.

Loess is the only soil that can be dug out of a hole that when filled back in it takes up less space than it took before being disturbed. That is because mechanical compaction arranges the angular particles more tightly than nature did when the wind deposited it. Most soil has round particles which nature compacts better than man can.

I'm sure that is more than you wanted to know.

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I agree with you Bob. It very well could be Iowa. I am from Illinois and just because a state is known for being flat farm country doesnt mean there isnt hills there. Places in Illinois are real hilly also just like parts of Iowa. I also agree with that number of big deer coming from 1/2 mile from any direction of the house in the picture. I thought abot a 1/2 mile in any direction from where i hunt and believe it would be possible.

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yea I dont know where they are from but I fist saw the pic atributed to IA three years ago. Its possible;) It could have come from my kind of country with that terrain.

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Wow i want to go to that farm house too!;)

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WOW thats alot of deer! I wouldnt kill that many bucks if I saw them everyday like that...........dont let a anti hunter see that lol!