growalot

right now I'm sketching plans...planning soft mast buys and seed....calculating fertilizer and lime costs...and marking trees for removal now and spring hing cutting....spring because the bark will be in a "slip" stage ...making the hinge less likely to break or splinter off...giving the tree a better chance of living for a bit.....

buckwheat...soybeans and all the wild elders ...they luv the HSG's and the clovers as well...Oh...the mulberries bring them in like crazy

were sick with them....the food plots and all the brush piles have helped to increase their #'s big time...also a decline in raptors

Had a freind call the other day...they used a cross bow during reg season ...shot a doe thru and thru at 60 yrds..he ranged it...she went 40 yrds and dropped...he said it was dead on at that range with a red dot scope

I go with the replanting of wild apples from our places and hazel nuts...I finally got the gobbler oaks to grow...buck came in this year and rubbed the bark off them .....I have several 8 ft high persimmon and you've seen the mulberry pics...I'm planting a bunch more blueberry plants ...now that I'm fencing off the one neighbor...this will give me a much bigger planting area...if timber prices would PLEASE go up ...I'd have more space to plant....but you can't beat the non edible elder plant...the deer just hammer them and they grow like crazy

Walnuts can be very bad for they produce a substance in their leaves and roots that is a plant inhibitor.... Plants that cannot tolerate juglone will show symptoms such as yellowing, wilting foliage. Juglone acts as a respiration inhibitor, sapping a plant's energy and leaving it unable to breathe. Plants that cannot tolerate juglone will eventually give up and die. Plants that are extremely sensitive to juglone may fail in as little as two weeks. "Although juglone is produced in the trees, roots, all parts of a black walnut tree contain the toxin, with the strongest concentration in the buds and nut hulls. Black walnut trees have a habit of dropping leaves, nuts and twigs from late summer through autumn and this debris adds to the juglone levels in the soil beneath the trees. Rain dripping from the leaves also adds juglone to the soil, making the entire drip zone beneath the tree a hazardous environment for juglone-sensitive plants. Cutting down the offending tree won't solve the problem, as the roots will continue to release juglone into the soil, making the area toxic for several years after the tree is gone. Debris from black walnut trees should not be added to compost, nor should the wood or bark be used for mulch. English walnut trees produce a small amount of juglone, but usually not so much that it is toxic to surrounding plants. Carpathian walnut trees, however, are sometimes grafted onto the rootstock of either black walnut or butternut trees. If a Carpathian walnut tree is grafted onto a juglone-producing tree, the Carpathian walnut will also produce toxic juglone. The good news is that not all plants are sensitive to juglone. Many trees, shrubs, flowers and vegetables will grow near a black walnut tree, although even some of the juglone-resistant plants will still struggle if they are directly beneath the tree. Plants which are extremely sensitive to juglone won't thrive within fifty feet of the drip line of black walnut trees. These include hydrangeas, silver maple, white birches, apple trees, Norway spruce, Mugo pine, mountain laurels, most azaleas, lilacs, blueberries and blackberries, cabbage and broccoli, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes and rhubarb."

in the Moultries it will shut down your IR so you'll get black night shots...they say that when brought to warmer temps that stops...NO...had to get a replacement camera...Of course they don't tell you this...until you have to call to tell them...then they know all about it

Well I'd hate to see what one of those fragments would do to my grinder...or God for bid someones mouth...then...Oh please jump on this observation...lol....a person accidentally shot...even in the arm with one....no thank you...I'm glad the archery seasons been expanded...now if they'd just allow us to use our reg season tag then as well....

I leave all mine up...in the late winter/ spring(a warm spell) I loosen the straps and chains....all my stands have back up chains C links and pad locs.... before growth begins and I take a wire brush and primer rustolium with me...I wire brush any rust that shows and prime...then in late spring repaint.....Oh and the wooden ladders get a healthy coating of linseed oil every other year

never fails...lol

Me....we have a lot of young buck that will either disperse from here or have already come into the area...good sign...buttons are showing little tiny spikes but young and a couple of older boys have lost there racks...and not as many doe on cams.... Walked the entire property and found the usual dead doe from a particular neighbor on our place..... big ole gals from the length of their noses...which was about the only thing left...way to many yote tracks a possum... squirrel and fox tracks aplenty

if it were legal....slingshot ground stalk

Because I of all ppl have actually pulled up on deer and had orange pop up just beyond the deer as I was about to pull the trigger....those moments tend to stick with you...the first time the guy got a younger less aggressive version of me in his face...telling me that he was on our land because he saw all the trucks leave....no you can't fix dumb and in his case a different result may have been to the betterment of the genetic pool ...but then I would have had to live with it for the rest of my life...and it could have been me for he was hunting as well...we both had orange on...hunting in hill country...this and last year I encountered two guys from lease next door...one wears and orange vest and his partner absolute camo head to toe during gun....and not carrying cells...for when I popped up in my stand...the on with orange had to hustle along the property line to retrieve his camo friend and high tail it out of there...same ones that told me to go blank my self last year when hunting next to the chicken coop...if a deer had popped up ..I could have easily been shooting directly at the camo guy due to the angle of the property line...and never seen him

Well of course not....for when you don't strap in or tie off in a tree stand the only one you hurt "physically" is your self....Oh wait...or the guy in full body camo that could possible snuck in under you that ya fell on...lol Not wearing B/O could cause another to either shoot you or if they are in camo you shoot them ..that is the problem with your logic...your not just putting your self in harms way....look at the guy who shoot his buddy...then himself out of distress

You all the things on your wish list?...I got my Buddy heater...the big one.to my happy surprise...some more wool socks and a nice light silver tech shirt for Oct 1 bow and a new fleece camo B/O hunting vest with big pockets and hand warmers...happy camper

bubba when time permits ..I'll pm a response....this has become a "as usual" post...so I won't drag out it's hopeful death....Merry Christmas Paulie...I hear ya ...understand been there....and agree...and glad everyone left healthy sorry for not getting the deer ...good for you though

Bubba....Thank you....I was very specific in the way I made that post...the whole time thinking of your response......you did not disappoint...lol You do need to re-read...not once did I ever attack YOU...Nearly every thing I posted was in question form and not a criticism of you personally...I wanted you to think about your ...lets be nice here....... approach to answering his venting I have been to 6 hunter safety courses all in different places...2 for my self and 2 each for my kids...let me tell you those six.... though I'll dually note.... mine to the kids... were years apart...not uniform and hey..... lacking in so many ways to count...thus my saying NYS...not you personally..as you inferred...needs to improve the curriculum and training of instructors ... Now it is great that your students have never been in a shooting incident God Bless them for that and the Family members that actually taught them to hunt responsibly... So I'll settle on the premiss that your feel out of sorts with ppl in general believing in the wearing of B/O....Your tone infers you feel under attack so I'll take your rant at me with a grain of salt...as Mr B says..."Thanks for coming in you made a difference"

Merry Christmas ...Happy Holidays and May 2012 greet you with all that you hope for.....

This is for anyone cruising the sight that for what ever reason.....your going through rough times....I understand that the Holidays can make what ever pain your going though a thousand times worse...but please please don't go to those dark recesses of your mind....try to connect with the courage that we all carry in our guts and reach out for a caring hand to hold.....They are out there believe me......For every bit of darkness there really is a bit of light...you have to give your self TIME to see it...we all count in this world....every moment we spend here makes a difference to someone....EVEN if it's just the person you held a door for...or took the time to smile at...there are truly no small moments in life for every thing has a ripple....make them all good ripples in this pond we call life....God Bless

See...Ohhhh my bad

Sorry...I thought deer season was closed so "live from the stand 2011" would include other hunting still going on in 2011....oppps

Not sure what you mean...but I don't usually put the cams right over the plots...and I do know that all corn is gone ...but turnips still have some greens and lots of bulbs....I also don't normally hunt over them...the deer I saw that day were 300 yrd from the nearest plot...cutting across us going to a swamp off us.......just one deer a bow doe was taken near any plots this year.....I also have one major green area to the south/west...a corn a hay field and pine plantations to the south...talked the neighbors into mowing large trails for the deer on their 100 acres of land and have another old hay field to our east...more swamp to the north...all these places are on other private lands... The deer simply go to ground during the day and feed strictly at night...with no snow to keep them on their feet...there is no reason for them to move out of the security of either less pressured lands or deep swamp areas on the lands around me...with the exception of the North side all are 50-100acre parcels...which some may say is small...but that is a relative term...for I find it's land structure that tells the real story on holding power....ie timbered lands...swamps...pine plantations...oaks...gullies and water...I got my biggest buck to date off a "lousy" 9acres we had before buying up the property around us....a travel route that is flat compared to the rest of hill and mowed trails with brambles...never failed to see deer every day there

Heres one for you...I sat out the first week of bow....I had one day...... 6am to 11am...... 42 deer walk by me....9 bucks and 38 I know to all be different deer...many passes and 2 deer taken bow season...Gun arrived...rarely saw deer ...cams pretty much devoid of pics...and managed to take just two doe ...in 8N during gun season....ML opens and cams are full of pics...doe and fawn only...I will not get another buck pic until late next summer...is what it is...lots of pressure but lots of swamp and a few no doe shooting .....thank God.....properties near by.... luck of the draw..be it 8 acres or 180 acres....by the way...I hunt every single day from bow opener to end of late archery...when not hunting...I'm out walking...it was just one single morning out of all the other with such a sighting...Now the next door neighbor(doe's and non-wall hangers off limits) swears there are no deer out there....

Pat how do you make your set up on yotes and do you hunt alone?...windy and pouring here...can't wait to hit the blinds...after X-mas