UpStateRedNeck

Here's a pic of my newly felled plot! Nice view without those hemlocks

Hey does anybody remember 4 or 5 years ago when Ramsey called #17 trash?

Just, nobody leave any spare helmets laying around LA's bench, hokay?

It's just the cut of these pants!

Be warned, @Pygmy, she looks like she's into butt stuff.

Can't go wrong with a Ruger 10/22! Or a decent bolt 22 mag?

I think we've gotten more rain in the past 2 weeks than June through mid August combined. Probably because my logging operation has started.

That's good to hear man! Do the physical therapy, it really really works. Also encouraging for me because I know I'm going to need this eventually!

Grown a few inches this week!

2nd and 3rd pics: I suspect someone got him on the state land a week into gun season. I nick named him Blade. #4 I think is a truly wide 9 point this year I've had my eye on this year. #1 from 2020 (date on cam is wrong, its actually Nov 1) is on my wall! Edit: Pictures didn't upload in the same order.

He quoted me between 2500-3500 for 2 1/2 acre spots. That was contingent on the rest of it being clear and him just grinding stumps. Compared to the 7-8k to get an excavator in to pull them, pretty solid deal. Added benefit of not disturbing the top soil as much.

Dad said they got 1.17 inches of rain yesterday. I'm ITCHING to get up there and check it out. I used WI secret spot on my kill plot, and thinned the poplars to the south of it. It was coming on like gangbusters last weekend. It's a couple hundred yards tucked back in the woods along a major trail between 2 big plots. Logging operation is in full swing on my hillside, gotta check that out too. I got a guy whose gonna give me a quote on grinding the stumps in 2 half acre plots down deep. I know I'm going to do at least 1, if the price is right maybe 2.

C- for me. We'll see!

State foresters are all in the DEC. They're the ones who inspect the properties. And they are INCREDIBLY understaffed right now.

Impossible. DEC couldn't legally get on everyone's land, nevermind have the manpower to do it. Schmucks like me who are in the 480a program though, they could walk on any time they wanted.

Flatlanders.

You have an Ag exemption?

That's almost a perfect description of my experience too. Except we're adjacent to 5k acres of state land. A couple years ago my uncle by marriage decided to lease his 300 some odd acres, for about 6k? And trust me, it's nothing spectacular. It COULD be if he put work in, but it's not. Then with other pieces of the farm getting sold off the access keeps going down down down. This caused him to lose one, maybe both? Of his leases. I don't think he can afford the taxes long term. I'm happy and about at maximum bandwidth with the 240 some odd acres I have, and improving that.

I know you're an avid, and certainly better than I, hunter. But, why are you surprised? How much do people pay you, or someone who buys one of your monsters and breeds them? All so they can lie about how they took it.

Sounds like next man up! But then how will @Cory be a party to the greatness that is @BizCT's fantasy genius?! I guess he can just tune in here.

We got deluged yesterday here, Dave, you didn't get any of that? My August 15th plantings are about an inch high now, just enough rain to get it going. Hay fields aren't brown anymore either

I was thinking a coyote too, but I'm biased. Went for the anus and got the tail?

Gonna be an interesting year. Alot of the old staples are gone. Other than RB Colts, not alot of sure things.

Little tiny sprouts are just starting. Another half inch of rain forecasted tomorrow, and a little more Tuesday.