Culvercreek hunt club

Happy Birthday Wooly. A man of many talents and just a great guy.

was it shot from the ground?

I didn’t vote for him or want him because of his Christian values. I wanted a Constitutionally Conservative SCOTUS. It was a one position election for me. The additional benefits we’ve gotten are just icing on the cake.

That is the correct order with a drill. Also using a drill you must go In the same direction as you crimp rolled.

Crimper has plates across the roller. As it turns it knocks the cover crop down but also “crimps” multiple spots along the stalk to compress and kill the cover crop.

I would switch the order if it were me. Grow the oats. In spring when you have ground temps, broadcast the soybean and then crimp roll it. Obviously a drill is better and they are drilling down through the crimped cover crop. But to broadcast I wouldn’t want beans hanging up on the thatch and not making soil contact.

This is a cultipacker. A smooth roller is just like a lawn roller

This is a crimper roller

The ag lime spreader is very similar to this one except the hopper is bigger.

https://www.whitetailhabitatsolutions.com/videos/no-till-food-plotting-with-the-rtp-outdoors-genesis-3

As part of our branch initiatives we have a one ton AG lime spreader. We are saving to get a 3' Genesis seed drill and we are considering making a crimp roller. All suitable for use behind an ATV/UTV that is 800 cc or larger. Hopefully the banquet gets us over the mark and I get branch volunteers buy in to train and issue/check back in the equipment so it can work out. Thinking about just a small rental fee to just cover insurance, wear items trailer registration and such. That way members can have access to equipment to do small plots and not need to outlay big money. .

https://secure3.convio.net/deer/site/Ticketing?view=Tickets&id=101761

Are those offset jaws?

Mailer is going out the end of January for ticket sales but the online is up and running now. If you want an early Christmas present. Finished some of the line up lat night and it is initially looking like 20-21 Firearms will be finding a new home this year.

Well if he doesn't finally come to the banquet this Year, count me out. I am not defending him...lol

They've turned cars over and burned for less.

There will be riots

Our QDMA Regions Director does it and the deer pretty much stay right out of it. He just pulls the wire off when he wants to open it up to them. Work good if you want to spend the money.

The ones you passed will be even nicer next year if they make it through. Don't be disappointed in that. Some of my best memories are of the ones I didn't shoot. My biggest disappointment is only going 5 for 8 with the Field to Fork program. I would have liked to see them all get their first deer.

This yote kind of snuck out into the field on my. I was scanning with the thermal and there were quite a few deer in the field. That actually makes you kind of numb to seeing a heat signature in the scope. I was scanning and saying in my head, there's a deer, there's a deer, there's a deer, there's a deer, and then I was like, hey that deer has a long tail.,..lol. Oh crap it a yote. He came out right were I wanted to set up but the wind was wrong to sit there. next time.

Brian spent more time there observing than I did but it sure seemed like they picked around the brassica chowing on the beans and they moved right to the brassica. Like eating your steak before your vegetables. I think it is some trial and error to get to know your deer herd and well as the surrounding habitat. If the woods near it had a massive white oak stand it probably would take so pressure off the beans. If the farmer next door left his corn standing until gun season, it would probably ease up the pressure on the brassica. My brother in law planted a brassica plot and those deer wouldn't touch it until there was about a foot of snow. Last week of gun they were out pawing up the bulbs of the brassica becasue the plants were about all gone already.

Moog will chime in since you tagged him . Ask him to see the plot pics that have the exclusion cage in the pic. They hammered everything...lol. If I was splitting the plot like you said I would still add something to the beans. Just in case they pick around and destroy your beans. How frustrating sitting in that stand and watching them across a half acre of barren ground while they eat your brassica in October when they are only suppose to eat it later. I don't know the population numbers you are dealing with. The average deer will eat about 7# of food a day. multiply that by 12 deer and a two week period. that is over half a ton. it takes LOTS and LOTS of 6" high plants to make half a ton. and I will say different areas and different deer seem to have different preferences.

Moog actually did this and it came in great. Right to the point the deer found it and mowed the beans out of the plot. It rally was too small for the high population numbers he has. we planted it together. planted the beans and dragged them in and top seeded the brassica. (then pray for rain...lol) The bury depths are different.

well it depends on the bean variety. If conditions are right you could get them punching out in a week with full maturity in 90-150 days. Planted at soil temp of 60 degrees. If you have high deer populations or they find it, I have seen them in there chewing 3 weeks after planting. If they clip them off before that first group of leaves set, the plant is basically done. Without those first leaves to provide food to the plant the stored food that was in the seed will be used up before more leaves can grow. I would plant them with something else combined. Even a brassica. bean plants early, brassica during early cold and if the beans get to seed pods they are great late season draw. There are a bunch of combo options out there to go with Soybeans.

Nope. Hadn’t heard that one.