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  1. Congratulations. You now have one big food source loaded with cover.
  2. Its every state now in one form or another. Its almost impissible to take brain/spine across state lines especially multiple state lines. Best to do what Lawd says. A lot of ppl lose their stuff especially returning home from out west. Google it. More than you think.
  3. Saw one this morning crossing a road with mama. Very wobbly but it was keeping up.
  4. It looks like every yote in NY and a couple big foot visited that thing. WOW! You didn't see any bear sign around there did you?
  5. Yeah you gotta have the sanctuary. It is the one thing about your property that could set it apart from several others around you. With only 35 acres, it is probably guaranteed that every deer you see on your property has probably spent as much time on someone else's property in the previous 24 hours. Don't feel bad. I only have 45 acres. But if you have sanctuary then they know where they can go and not smell folks. And it does become a preferred bedding area for a couple/few doe groups and every once in a while you will have a buck using it on a consistent basis.
  6. It sounds like an awkward situation for you but it is probably an awkward situation for the guy you leased it from as well. He married the guys daughter. I doubt he's going anywhere and it may not be available for lease next year.
  7. Interesting you should say that because I was contemplating removing the radishes altogether. There are always more radishes leftover than turnips. Thanks!
  8. Make that three. I am already on to next season.
  9. I used to always plant the Imperial Winter Greens. I stand behind them as a product but a mix from my local co-op works so much better and has many more turnips. Spread 10 lbs per acre mix of 5 lbs Forage Radish 3 lbs PTT 2 lbs Rape or Kale
  10. Me too. I plant a total of 4 acres in 13 different plots across my property. I am going to put about 1/3 of it in to a clover/ chicory mix this spring. Hoping I can frost seed it in. Gonna try and spread it in late February and hopefully through snow. It would cut down on a lot of work if it will frost seed.
  11. For brassicas and since i have the equipment, I like to disc it up in the spring (March or April). Sometimes I spread lime at this time. Other times I just wait until another time and spread it on top but before I cultipack. I let the weeds grow until about mid-june and then spray them. I do not turn it over again. When the time comes (3rd week of July) I cultipack, spread, and then cultipack. But the above is not required. Last year I spread brassicas on a plot that was bare ground but had not been turned over in a year nor did I cultipack. I just spread it. It was an awesome field of brassicas and this is on heavy clay. I would put a chain saw, sanctuary, and sent control above food plots. Honestly, if I had it all to do over again I might just have mowed and fertilized where I mowed. Food plots are over-rated. They are just a food source. Other than the turnips (meaning the vegetable). The last 2-3 weeks of November the deer go nuts over the turnips. But they seem to also abandon them right around now (the beginning of December). During October, deer come out in the plots and mill around for 10-15 minutes and then will walk over in the brush and start eating something that naturally grows. We have a lot of young forest around here, tons of brush, tone of Pagoda Dogwood, honeysuckle, mowed fields, golden rod fields, grape vine, etc... in this area in very alkaline soils. My PH was naturally 6.6. Every place is going to vary. But unless you have the property to do 10+ acres of food plots then you really are not adding much food to the place. You are simply providing a food source and those food sources may not out-compete things that naturally grow there. Things like Corn and Austrian Winter Peas probably would on a year-in/year-out basis. But you would almost have to plant at least 5 acres of each to ever have any of it standing/last in to bow season.
  12. He has a similar name as mine and I could not have said it better muself. Just get it down to bare dirt and spread it. Then roll over it with something (truck, atv, lawn tractor, pull a roller, or just let it rain). Before you buy any of any equipment, try it for a year exactly as he says. Lime and fert right on the top. I own a tractor, disk, tiller, cultipacker, etc.... A lot of it I didn't even need.
  13. He "may" face charges? Interesting. http://www.wgrz.com/news/hunter-who-shot-woman-may-face-charges/495001044
  14. A little more info about. Nothing major. Sounds like the husband is rather forgiving. As a sportsman, I am getting a little pizzed this guy has not been charged yet. Sends the wrong message. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/26/nyregion/hunter-shot-woman.html?referer=http://www.google.com/
  15. There is an update to this. Wait until the 1:33 mark. You'll be appalled. http://www.wgrz.com/mobile/article/news/local/sherman-shooting-victim-kindest-woman-i-have-ever-met/71-494443769
  16. I agree and this is the problem with making it a "social issue". It beomes "thought crime" if someone takes a smaller buck. I like to hunt the big ones and I do belive a lot of people are letting the small ones pass. But organized rules such as one buck per year and/or a shorter gun season would be much better than shaming. I would never do that. I hate it.
  17. Way to go Oak. Congratulations. Great pictures. God bless you.
  18. During bow season, I put it on my back pack and then during gun season I put it on my camo orange vest. I know a lot of people don't carry a pack. It is a pain in the ass. But at least if it is on my back pack or orange vest it never accidentally goes through the wash.
  19. Do you understand how how warm out it is? Anything over 50 degrees is a deer movement killer especially adult deer unless it's the rut. You said they disappeared two weeks ago. That's when this heat wave started. It's been 70 - 92 degrees every day. What deer are you seeing at 100 yards? Those deer? Or others? If you're not seeing the bucks then why don't you take a break until the last week of October when it'll be cooler and they are going to start to get anxious but still be relatively close to where they have been?
  20. Your camera also may not work if you hang them that high. It will not pickup the heat signature. https://www.ohiosportsman.com/threads/trail-camera-too-high-up-tree.70064/#post-791929
  21. Every day. Sometimes more than others. Tough when it has been as hot as it is but still got out there. Most important thing is to shoot a couple arrows every day through season with longer shooting sessions mixed in on warmer days. Stay tuned up.
  22. You know why it is easy for people to find your cameras? 1. They are too easy to see (obviously) 2. The sun creates a glare off the lense. They are easy to spot then. Be aware of the angle of the sun through the day and don't hang your camera in a spot that is pointed towards to sun. The angle of the sun in New York is usually South of overhead throughout the day. So face them North.
  23. I use plastic totes. I wash them all before season and then through the season as I wear them. I put a box of Arm & Hammer baking soda (the refrigerator type with the mesh) in each tote. I put my boots in a tote as well with a box of the Arm/Hammer.
  24. The first time I did my plots on my land I planted brassicas around this time in September. All I did was clear the ground of grass because I did not have any tillage equipment. No lime of fertilizer. I also planted them that early because I did not know any better. Those brassicas grew well on bare ground like that. They did not get very tall but they still hammered them. If they had some fertilizer on them they would have been bigger. And they probably would have germinated faster if I had tilled the ground. They germinate pretty good here if they are just on bare un-tilled ground. But it takes a few days longer. If you can tear it up, hammer it with some triple 15 @300lbs. per acre then they just might surprise you. Nothing wrong with trying it. But winter rye would be a better choice this late. But if you are dead set on brassicas then go for it.
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