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Good luck, it's definitely challenging. I bought a fox pro last yr and gave it a go maybe 10 times. The first time I went at the crack of dawn and fired the call up as soon as I could see enough to shoot. I was clueless and was hitting all sorts of calls, soon I had them barking in multiple direction, I'm pumped and expected my hunt would end in a kill, well I never saw them. Every time after I was a dud.

Nope I'd wait, really what's the hurry, March is your best germination option.

I love it, holler loud for me too!!! They can pull this off!!

Here's to hope they head to new england

Well I walked the property a couple weeks ago with our forester and discussed logging and implementing my management plan ideas and we tweaked a few things but for the most part it went well and I think will be moving forward. In the end they will log it, clear cut a 1-2 acre food plot and not really cost me anything because they will take all the trees in that section. So I'll keep posting as we progress on this.

Big Jake fromm fan, he's quite the true freshman qb and will be a NFL stud qb in time and he's a deer hunter. Go Georgia

Go piss on someone else's parade not this one....... Go freaking bills

Thanks, I hadn't thought about that but gosh if that tree died that would be terrible!

Ok I'll do that thanks

Thought about that but it just doesn't sound good with both names.

So my dad had two best friends. One passed away maybe 5 to 6 yrs ago and the other passed away unexpectedly on Xmas Eve. Both were avid outdoors man. Obviously he's pretty upset his last best friend is gone well before his time. My dad had a pond put in this fall and I was thinking about maybe naming the pond after one of them and name the food plot the other, maybe make up a nice wood sign with the name?? Good idea or no?

My 9 yr old son scored his very own ladder stand. Some of you may remember the pic of his sketchy makeshift stand he built in our backyard so he could sit out back and watch the deer after school. This will be much safer!

I got the Amazon echo, I tried talking dirty to her but she wasn't buying it so she's playing tom petty radio now!!

Leave a note on it from santa saying something, or tell her Santa's magic and t cams don't work

Meateaters

Xmas in Dixie by alabama first comes to mind but also Alan Jackson let it be xmas Eagles please come home for xmas

Scrooge!!

Yeah just saw that on channel 8's website. Big bear and a crap ton of work to get that all packed out.

I had that yrs ago, little foreign fella tells me he's with Microsoft and need to fix my computer so I played along for a bit, he's telling me to go here then go their, then he says what do u see now.. I say a scam!! He yells and hangs up

Thanks Bob, yeah this was all built around it for the most part while trying to work with all the different contours and different habitat types through out. As far as the plot shape my goal is to make it look really natural with feathered edges and leaving a few sporadic trees. My son is a couple yrs out from his first youth hunt and I'm really doing this in part to give him a great spot with great opportunities.

And I think the food plot will be huge. The whole surrounding area on our hill is mostly all timber. Other than someone else's small food plot or some crp fields there isn't any ag for miles and I would think giving them consistent food should really help.

Blue line between stand 2&3 is a stream that always holds water. I just want the bucks to spend more time on my property than they are currently, thanks for your suggestions.

Ok I'll double check with my Forester but I'm confident he said they are not preferred by deer.

Good point, I didn't mark out on the map the bedding areas but I'd consider those as sanctuaries. On the back 45 acres there is a 8 acre sanctuary. Ideally I want more multiple doe families. As far as bucks it's seems like I can rarely get the same buck on cam in the same season let alone multiple seasons. I feel I'm only getting pass thru bucks during late October early Nov then dries up.

Ok so I'm meeting with our forester in the next couple weeks to discuss logging our 35 block. Attached is a detailed map and a somewhat detailed management plan ill be reviewing with him on site. Its a rough version and will be fine tuning over the next couple weeks & I wanted any opinions you have to help plan this out. Attached is map along with my written description below, Stand 1: Makeup of stand one is mostly pole pines, some red oaks & some ash. Orange lines on map = mostly clear cut Pitfalls: Pine blocks are mature providing little to no bedding cover (0-4ft) Goals: Harvest most from pine stand 1&2. Chemically treat early beech and birch from tsi work years ago in block 1. Leave small clumps of pines to complement the early succession growth that will regenerate and in a few years providing strong 0-4ft cover & additional food browse while still providing some thermal cover for bedding. Pine stand 3 will have less harvested and also focusing on leaving clumps together to complement early regeneration while still providing some thermal cover for bedding. Stand 2: Yellow Lines = select harvest (leaving tops) Orange Lines = mostly clear cut (leaving tops) Green Lines = full clear cut for food plot, est 2-3 acres Pitfalls: Large sections of beech and little 0-4ft cover can see long distances. Goals: Middle section with yellow lines is made up of mostly red oak with some maple, hickory & hemlocks. Other section where food plot and orange lines is made up of large dense small diameter beech stands with some mature beech. Some red oaks, maples and hemlocks make up the rest. Food plot would be full clear cut leaving little tree pockets and eastern section would be mostly clear cut to provide new early succession cover and future bedding. Chemically treat beech. Leave all hemlock trees for thermal cover. Stand 3: Yellow lines = select harvest (leaving tops) Orange lines = mostly clear cut (leaving tops) Pitfalls: middle to western section is very open and can see long distances. Middle to eastern has heavy small diameter beech stands. Goals: Middle to western section is made up of mostly red oaks with scattered white oaks, hickory, maple & hemlocks. There are dense pockets of small diameter beech and some stripped maple that needs to be chemically treated. Select harvest to increase sun to soil contact. Leave all hemlocks for thermal cover. Middle to eastern section is dominated by small dense beech stands with some mature beech, oaks, maples and hemlocks. Middle to eastern section is mostly clear cut to provide new early succession growth and 0-4ft cover to complement hemlock trees and provide new bedding cover. Summary: Overall goal is to provide much more bedding cover than it currently provides. Provide a consistent food source (f plot) with strong focus on winter months. Having strong bedding and food should help make this deer’s core area and hopefully change seeing pass thru bucks to core bucks . Eliminate stripped maple and small beech stands and replace with new desired tree species. Provide strong sun to soil contact and increase the 0-4ft cover. Have forester review logged areas 1-2yrs after to ensure undesired trees (beech and birch) are gone.