NYBowhunter
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Yeah I take full advantage of learning from the ole timers, I cherish everything we do together as you can tell from the pictures they are not getting any younger. My dad and uncle in the picture we do everything together from foodplots, building treestands, pruning appletrees, planting trees, butchering deer etc......I wish at thier age I have thier stamina they are a dying breed of ole time hard working Italians.........My uncle to the right in the picture is 75 and he runs circles around me..lol.... Last time we were up there he dug three holes and planted apple trees for me while I was tending to something else.
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Heres a picture of my 1st deer I have taken off my property (4 pointer), took him the 1st half hour of the bow opener. I was setup in a stand of pines that overlook a bunch of appletrees. The deer come off the foodplots in the morning and make thier way up to the top of the mountain and stop by these appletrees on their way to bedding and viceversa at night. Caught him at 1st light. After that bowkill between gun and muzzeloader I let some 4 different young bucks walk and some 16 does pass. I'm also attaching a picture of a ten pointer I was after, but never saw him the entire season. Enjoy.
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My family have been butchering deer for quite sometime, I have learned from my dad and uncle. I have on a couple occasions butchered deer with the help of a good friend without the guidance of my dad and the key is not to be intimidated. but before you get started you really should do a couple deer with someone experienced. If you have three people that know what thier doing, you can have a deer skinned, quartered, cut and wrapped in under 2 hours. We even get my mother to help also. One guy debones the meat, another cuts the meat , another one wraps and labels the meat. We have found butcher paper to be the best, the one that has the wax on one side and paper on the other. Next time I get a deer you are welcome to come by and check out our assembly line. The best part of butchering yourself is that you dont need to transport the deer and can chuck the skin and scraps in the woods for predator hunting and you cut the meat the way you want it. Here are some pictures for your enjoyment. Oh yeah and the quality time with family and friends is priceless..............
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I have release with belt type buckle, get the same fit everytime. That is the main reason I didnt go with velcro, I would think that you get a different fit most of the time.
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Welcome aboard Frank.
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I have a couple pressure treated wood stands that are great and I also have a couple double ladder stands that I love as well. We also have one of those fully enclosed molded treestands that is awsome, that is for my dad and you can see a glimpse of that stand in the deer pictures in the clover field that I sent in my other post. Now that fully enclosed stand is the cadilac of all treestands.
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yeah it does look much bigger then 1/2 acre, but we measured it and its app. 1/2 acre. dont think i would want anything larger, would be way to much work.
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Owning a house, the renovations and chores never end. There is always something to do
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I was fortunate in that I had two fields already cleared when I bought the property, but like you I also have one other field on my property that I would love to put in a plot however getting to that field with my tractor would be too dangerous.
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We just mow the clover with a small johndeer sitdown mower and leave the clippings. BurmJohn is correct in that clover will produce thier own nitrogen. The key to when you 1st grow clover in your plot is to use a higher nItrogen in your fertilizer and your second season you can fertilizer with minimal nitrogen as Clover produces its own nitrogen. I found that the more you mow the clover once its established the plot will become more clover dominant and will choke out alot of the native grasses. I personally dont like and dont want to use chemicals in my plots, so I have to mow more then others to keep grasses at bay to give clover the advantage. Others use chemicals and can probably get away with more time in between their mowings.
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I dont mind a bit, you can pick my brain anytime as I can talk deer and food plots all day long. I have no problem passing on the knowledge I have learned through the years. Its a whole lot of work to put in a plot correctly, but the payoff are well worth it. Nothing like sitting back and looking at a bright green field of clover, chikory and turnips knowing you did that. And the deer in your area will be healthier.
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Nice to recognize some old screen names, not much traffic on any of the other NY forums. Hopefully we get make this site as good or better then empire. Did anyone ever find out why the empire forum just dissapeared?
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The plot in the picture is a 1/2 acre of clover and there is piece of that plot I use to plant turnips for the fall. I also have another plot adjescent to the plot in the picture which is much smaller that has clover and chikory.
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Clover grows pretty fast within a few weeks should see good results assuming it had rained. As for the mowing, how often will depend on heat and how often it rains. Typically every couple to few weeks it will need to be mowed, but by rule of thumb you want to mow the clover when it gets to 6".
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Thanks, the food plots definately make a difference in that they attract deer.
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I have put in clover plots and turnips on my property and have done some extensive research along with working with my local agway . The only downfall to clover for most people is that it does need to be maintained (mowed) when they reach 6" or so, the reasons for mowing is that it keeps the clovers new and fresh (more desirable to deer) and mowing helps to keep weeds and grasses in check. Theres the right way and wrong way of doing food plots. The right way is the way I decided to go with, which like anything new will require you to learn as much as possible before getting started, and most importantly get your soil tested and add what is needed to the soil based on what your platning and the size of your plot. Let me know if anyone has specific questions about putting in a plot as I maybe able to help.
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Live in: Bklyn., NY
Hunt: Otsego (town of worcester) and Deleware (Town of Harpersfield) counties.
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Hello All,
Attached are some pictures that I retrieved from last weekend, one camera was setup on one of my clover plots and the other was setup on a ridge top of a traveling/bedding coridor. Some pics are of up and coming bucks and of a pregnant doe that looks like shes ready to explode. Enjoy.
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Hello, Use to post on empire forum. Glad to see a new forum is evolving that I can be a part of. I hunt in Otsego county, have a few food plots on my property and I'm a deer nut. I think of hunting, food plotting 24/7. I will post some recent photos soon. I gun hunt, but my true passion is bowhunting.
2009 Deer Season
in Deer Hunting
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No never did see him again. He is probably 10 yards from the foodplot when the picture was taken and must have been chasing does that night, I think I deleted the pictures but in time order before him was a picture of a doe, then him and after him was a younger buck. That is the beauty of the rut, you never know what you will see and I truely believe in trying to keep the does happy by feedong them well (foodplots) and they (bucks) will come. Case in point attached is a picture of an 8 pointer (185lbs. field dressed) my uncle took 2 years ago (1st time we hunted on my property) and out of 500-600 trail cam pictures I retrieved in 2008 I never got one pictures of this 8 pointer, but yet he came to the property looking for does. He was probably not a resident buk but may have come from far away looking for does that I had been keeping happy on my property.Enjoy.