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Do you have an Agway or anything that sells seed close? Usually you can get winter rye for $1 a pound or so. I usually pay about $ 35-$40 a 45 lbs bag of winter rye. And I would go with dwarf essex rape instead of the peas. Peas are good if you have like a 10 acre plot but under an acre they will get mowed down before they get to any size. The rape will produce way more forage in a smaller plot.IMO that is.

The first bird I ever killed was with a group of about 10 hens. He would gobble it up but wouldnt leave the hens. So as quiting time was approaching fast I noticed they were walking right down a tractor trail on top of the field. So I went down to the next field and crawled on my hands and knees up through the field to the road and found some semi tall grass about a ft tall. I laid down and parted the grass and stuck the barrel out into the road way. About 10 min later here he came walking down the middle of the road all fanned out and at 10 yrds I shot his head right off his body with the old 12 gauge single shot. He went 23 lbs and 1 1/4 spurs. 10 1/2 beard. Best turkey hunt ever!!

Good deal, what yr was it made? I know they were made from the 50' through the 80's.

You should sell it and get a couple more barrells for your Encore.

Funny! Anyhow welcome to the site.

I have never planted a clover plot because everything Ive read always said it was a pain to take care of. I intentionally try to kill the clover in my lawn short of using napalm and it gets thicker. Its even growing this yr in a spot I havent been able to keep grass on in the last 3 yrs. I just dont get it.

So everything I have read about clover suggests that if your PH is out and if you dont have everything perfect white clover will not grow. Now, I have whiteclover all over my yard and I have never fertilized or limed it ever. The last time I checked the ph in my yrd while messing around with a ph meter I had just bought it read around 5.5. I have clover everywhere. I have more clover than I have grass. So what gives is it just a bunch of food plot BS designed to get us to buy other un needed stuff?

Encores and boring bolt actions pftth!!! You guys need a Remington 750 semi in 30-06 like i got. I can nock them down with the first round, gut them and hang'em up with 3 follow on shots all as fast as I can pull the trigger.

I do like how the bushnells boast 1 yr on 8 AA batts. I did a little more digging around today and noticed just about every brand of trail cams has a time lapse feature now. Is this something new for this yr or have some of them always had time lapse tech on them.

The bushnell comes in several different models at different costs but all are compareable to the cost of the plotwatcher. Im thinking the bushnell is better because you still have the IR for night where as the plotwatcher is for day time only. But the plotwatcher has the telephoto lense or the wide angle lense where you can pick up deer farther from the cam than what the standard 40 ft trigger of the IR model. Both accept 32gb sdhc cards for 20,000 pics which you would need for a camera taking pics every 30 to 60 seconds.

Was looking into buying a plot watcher and noticed Bushnell had cameras now that are not only triggered by motion but can be set on what they call field view which is nothing more than a plot watcher. The newer plotwatchers have different lenses you can put on one is a wide view lense and the other is a telescopic lense both would be good for watching a large field. But the bushnell field view can be set to take pics every minute and the motuion will still take pics if something walks by in between. Not sure what to do. Anyone have any thoughts.

A cow's a cow's a cow to most farmers. They are not pets. If one gets sick they dont call the vet as this costs money. Most are rendered into dogfood. Had a friend who drove around all day to farms and shot and winched dead cows into his rendering truck. Nasty job and he said he threw up on more than one occasion walking through the rendering plant floor. Anyhow, Farmers expect a certain amount of calfs to not make it, its just something that happens and a fact of life for a farmer. In the long run even if he had given you the calf and you had taken it to a vet and tried to nurse it back to health it probably would have died anyway. He probably put it in the barn and said if its alive in the morning good if not then out to the field for coyote bait. Its a fact of life, cows die more often than you think.

Now which would do this a larger caliber bullet say 30's or higher. Or the smaller caliber bullets?

Lets really get everyone fired up now. Should the bullet mushroom and pass completely through or should it expend all its energy in the deer and not exit?

The American people will get what they deserve.

Rest in peace Mitch. Your knee deep in the smoked gar now. You will be missed!!

Wow!! enough said.

Congrats on the jeep. My 1st car was a 96 toyota corolla. Loved that car, I beat the crap out of it driving all over Lousiana hunting and fishing when I was in the army. And I see by all the back seat comments on here my daughter will be getting a smart car.

Wait till you get into the tieploid and tetraploid and all the other ploids and forage rye, annual rye grass and winter rye.that will really make your head hurt.

Heres enough info on food plots to make your brain go numb. http://www.whitetailstewards.com/articlesonsite/mainarticlepages/listofallarticles.htm http://www.deerbuilder.com/

shoot that aint bad

I took alot of my info off to protect myself to. You can go here to this website and get this and then go over to that web site and get this info and then go over there and dig deeper and get this info and pretty soon someone is draining your bank account. You can never be to carefull.

Can you spread ag lime with a push spreader?

To get a shootable # of doves you would have to plant a field of millet or equivalent crop and then mow half of it down and leave it on the ground to bring them in. I dont think it would be legal to throw birdseed on the ground and hunt over it. I can say though they are rather tasty and easy to clean.

Thats what im thinking to, just keep it simple. Just plant something to make the does stick around and the bucks will follow come Nov. Hopefully the Acorn crop does well this fall to, there are a ton of Oaks on the property. In yrs of acorn failure the buck sightings drops off to almost nothing as they go over to the neighbors farm fields to eat.