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Hey everyone my management plan for our new property has begun this past weekend. I drove from NOVA 5.5 hrs to our hunting camp in the town of Greenwood last Wednesday and our plan was to plant 50 Spruce trees, 11 Dunstan Chestnuts, 3 Apple, and 2 Pear trees. My dad and I planted all 50 spruce trees to start our screen on the two road frontage areas. The green line is the Spruce trees the blue lines are the two rows of fruit and chestnut trees. Chestnuts The day after we planted the spruce trees I got a nice little deer track in the soil. The previous owner used the 6 acre field for hay but its full of good clover and forage so we are gonna leave it in and maybe spray some herbicide after the first cut. After all the hard work this weekend it was time for me to get back to Virginia but I am hoping to get back up early June to see how everything is doing. I still have to get grow tubes for the trees and put protection around each one in the next few weeks. My Dad will be going down every week and checking on everything as well and putting mulch around all the trees.

I'm with you! I enjoy maintaining my property... When I bought my house it was vacant and had no lawn, "THAT" house on the block if you know what I mean, I turned that whole house and property to one of the nicest on the block, I will add, I do have the best lawn in the block hands down right now And alot of people hire landscapers and lawn treatment guys. ::::blows on finger nails and rubs on shirt::::: lol

They should of interviewed Si. Would of been very interesting. He makes the show.

Well, I finally got around to wrapping up the euro of my last dead buck find. My last hike I grabbed an old rough cut plank from an old abandoned stand site and brought it home for my plaque. One knotty section I really liked in this board that I really hoped I could make it work with what I was doing. Nothing fancy here. I just cut my shape with a jigsaw, sanded the snot out of it, and sprayed it with a good coat of Krylon semi-gloss satin finish. Here you can see the wood grain around the knot I was after. It looks like this hunk o' lumber was made for this skull. Since I wanted to do some sort of raised table mount display I needed to add some feet. I used a couple of antlers me and Red cut off a dead buck this winter while shed hunting and they worked out great! For now I just have them Super-Glued on, but I'll have to set a couple screws through the front even though it's pretty solid. Then I cut some pieces from an old bicycle tire tube and glued them on the antler tips and the front edge of the plaque so it doesn't slide all over the place. Here's a look from behind.. That's all she wrote! I gotta putty the nail hole in the front of it and drill the legs, but here's the finished product for the most part! Total cost of $7 for the can of clear coat and tube of glue.

Bloomberg is just laying low until the public's 30 day attention span cycles.

I don't know nothin'. It just followed me home one day.

You are describing exactly what the politicians wanted to happen.

your fence doesnt look tall enough... i would have just fenced them in individually

I had a premonition(dream) last night about this exact topic. It's funny that in my dream I was tracking a deer with a 5ft wide blood trail and I remember stopping and looking up at the perfect tree for a stand. Now I just gotta find that tree! I'll be scouting some new turf for pre- rut as I see some of my best deer at that time.

I opted to sleep in yesterday and skip the early morning hunt.... I hit the road around 8:30 looking for a potential victim to go after and found two strutters out in a field on a buddy's farm. Got in front of them and had one of 'em flopping on the ground 15 minutes later. Unfortunately, I was in better position to kill the subordinant bird so I went ahead and took him instead of the boss tom. As I ran out to get my turkey the big one just stood there for a few seconds watching me before he took off. If someone would have been with me we would have doubled up. Mine ended up being a pretty nice bird: 21.5 lb, 10" paint brush beard and 1" spurs...

You have to fence them. Young apple trees, a delicacy to deer. I fenced mine, and a deer still got in. Luckily, they just ate the leaves and some branches that were low. I reinforced it after that, and no problems so far..

They are fantastic fletching. Helped me get better groups too!!!

I tried watching Duck Dynasty a couple times and couldn't get interested in the show .

Si is the best, you gotta love that guy

Did you know? Phil (the father) was the starting QB for Lousianna ahead of Terry Bradshaw! He was also drafted by the NFL as a Junior. He declined the draft because it conflicted with the hunting season. HUH go figure.

Not my favorite thing either but I have to keep up with the neighbors. I have a pretty big lawn but my son usually does half and I do the other, so its not too bad. The lady (nut job) across the street up and moved out in the middle of the night, about 3 weeks ago so now me and my next door neighbor take turns cutting her front lawn so it doesn't get out of control. My wife mentioned buying a couple hanging flower baskets to but on the lady's porch so burglars don't think its abandoned......Nut job #2.

My lawn is natural! I hate yard work and mowing!! I have a huge lawn it tales me almost 2 hours on the Scag just to mow it and another hour to weed whack it. I got pretty dandelions, crab grass, clover, wild strawberries and a zillion other kinds of weeds in it. Heck you may even find some real grass there! I can not wait till it gets burned out and stops growing and the fall when the leaves fall to smother it!! I would rather be fishing, hunting or poking needles in my eyes than lawn work!! lol

id show u mine but i tend to piss of the deck and i get dead spots in the grass!!

Picked up my 7pt from the taxidermist today and just mounted it in my home office. I am very pleased with the work. What do you all think?

Here is the buck