Fantail

I could see where something like this might be useful to someone who manages allot of properties, or a surveyor, maybe even a forester. If it is accurate enough.

Welcome retrosub. Could you post a little more info on the new 150' setback rules? Good Hunting.

I usually make use of a small covered utility trailer. Where I can stuff a bag of ice in the cavity if need be and wrap the deer in a tarp. Sometimes I pre-process right at camp, that way it's just finishing work at home and the carcass is already gone.

I could go for a cold Michelob Dry. Some say it was just a fad.

4 stands 50 acres.

Clever way to post deer porn.

Yes I've used tacks like that before. Funny, found two of them on logging scraps the other day.

They work ok. I only use 100gr with belts. Yeah there's better bullets but I use the MZ for shorter range kind of like a smoothbore.

Tell you what gets me fired up - right around labor day I get into my stands and fix them up, make sure things are good to go etc. So then I get a chance to soak up the view, allot goes through your mind, very enveloping. Then try getting to sleep or concentrating on anything else - right.

Damn. I thought this was going to be a boob thread.

I hope this doesn't sound like a dumb question but do you have a special prep for freezing them?

Go squirrel hunting. Sometimes you'll find a few rows of old planted red oaks. Take it from there.

Nice shots. 2nd. pic 'pssst - hey, go check out that decoy over there'

This might qualify; Pic of one section of new trail/road I've been building - repairing all summer more or less. Probably 30+ sq yards of dirt/gravel mix involved, making use of the tractor & bucket. In some spots making use of the existing old logging trail, in others bridging muddy swampy spots. I can now get all the way back to the existing plots with the tractor, I should have the extra top soil for the w/r plots and work done before labor day. No more getting material & supplies back and forth by hand & foot, or one wheel barrel load at a time. I expect to go through at least a few sq of fill next year just in maintenance, fixing up low spots etc., as I make use of it while it settles. This will also make it easier to clean up logging scraps, and set in place plans to clear out another acre for a forge soy plot. This is slow work, sometimes it seems like it never ends. Yet I can visualize what the end result could be, realizing something of a goal 3 years or so away. Edit to add; it is very important to have a few turn around points ahead of this kind of work. Otherwise going backwards with a 2 ton tractor can fishtail and splatter wet/loose fill.

Yes I have had good luck / results with smaller plots. Common thing to do in woodland areas until you can expand them or just use them as is or supplements to others. I just don't mix annuals with perennials in the same plot.

I would take the shot. Can understand why some wouldn't and thats fine. But I do my own processing, got a sausage press etc. Game cart ready and plenty of wash / rinse water. Probably scratch hunting the next day to get processing work done. Where some might not have allot of extra days to hunt or just have other goals.

http://www.sunrisesunset.com/usa/New_York.asp Pick a town close to your jazz and the info you want on it, print. Makes a good reference.

Nice shots. Whats on the ground?

Looks good. I'm a bit baffled by the bear in a clover plot but I guess the are omnivores.

Boonie hat & a bug net.

I'm so glad I got into Archery. Having said that I have a boonie hat &/or mask - reversible orange top I wear that when I'm blood trailing & such.

100gr Sierra game king aprox 150 yards. So I guess we'll see the ?.243, ?20ga, ?30-30 clowns about the same time - next year?

I'd give that tomato plant another year.