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Cant beat leupold glass, but before you settle on a brand.. Check out Vortex or Athlon. I just bought an Athlon Midas BTR for my predator rig. All 3 companies have an unbeatable warranty and great customer service! I own scopes from all 3 of these manufactures .. they are all great scopes. and make a good variety to chose from.. all have different grades of glass, which id worry more about more glass quality, than the magnification or objective..

I try to keep my cameras on the outside, more easily accessed places. Less chance for disturbance. Seldom do i put a cam up in deep. And if i do i try my best to hide it, and not disturb the area. And only check it if Im going in to hunt or something. Put a big card in it, and maybe never check until season is over. Cams are great. I have a cell cam i won in a raffle that i put on the down wind side of my sanctuary, brushed it in pretty well and its done exactly what i needed it to do. I dont have to check it bc it sends them to me and the area is left alone.. Except spypoint lost verizon service coverage opening day and it hasnt had service since.. I wouldnt say dont use them, Just be weary about how you use them. Get rid if straps if you can. Use screw in tree mounts whenever possible, you can still hide them pretty well. Ive taken them and strapped them to a branch then used the exxcess length of strap to tie in more branches and such.. anything to brush it in best possible.. Even just by hanging a cam and kicking over dirt or something in the immediate area is enough to trigger a deers nose and make it wonder..

My mature deer(bucks and does) absolutely hate trail cameras. They will avoid them at all costs once they find them. They dont vacate the area but they will move through the area a different way. The only way I can get away with them not noticing the camera is either brushing it in and making it very hard to find.. or hang it up high facing down, but even those cams tend to be seen as well. I also switch cams out for black flash only cams, in areas that im tracking a particular cam shy buck. A lot of deer see the strap around trees before they notice the camera its self, If you can avoid using a strap and get a tree mount of some sort, you'll be better off. you cna screw them on almost any type of tree, branch, brush etc.. and they become less noticeable instantly. Also using a small camera with a "good" camo theme to it helps wonders.. Ive had to change my ways up big time the last 2 years chasing these 2 old bucks, and believe me it has worked wonders. Have gotten more pics of them in 2 years than i have the 9 years they've been alive. Between "brushing" the cam in and using the black flash models, so they cant physically see the camera, or the red glow in regular IR cams. They walk right by and never notice it. You have to remember other people are using cams to, and as scent proof as you may be when dealing with them, somebody is not, and somehow someway in their brains built for survival, they have put these cams on the danger list.. Whether they've been shot at in front of them, smelling weird things off them etc..

Family, My and my wifes whole family is here besides my grandmother who live sin Hilton Head, SC. Family keep me here more than anything. But as well as familly, this state is absolutely gorgeous if you remove the tax crap and liberal agenda that we are stuck with.. I love all 4 seasons.. I think its one of the best things about this state.. besides the fact they use way too much salt on the rd.. Also this state doesnt see Extremely Dangerous weather patterns like much of the country sees, Tornadoes, Quakes, Hurricanes etc.. I dont know how i would take losing everything to a "storm" i knew, may happen, before moving somewhere.. and the chance you take risking yours or your families life in those situations. If i never win the lottery, I'd love to some day move to Tennessee or somewheres south of here that still has great hunting opportunities..

I used to strictly only use WI products most all of them. Always had good results. Id definitely do a real nice blend for a perennial plot. And if possible add a nurse crop, that way you dont have to worry about spraying the same year its planted. Just mow before nurse crop goes to seed. That is, if you tilled the soil. If no tilled.. and everything is sprayed dead, just spread your perennial blend before rain

My neighbor loves his 3 acre Fusion plot. From the pic she sends me the mix look great, i would guess 2/3 clovers 1/3 chicory. You can usually google seed labels for Whitetail institute products if you dont want to call.

I read an article from the Farmers almanac back in October or September, predicting what our winter would do for us.. It stated that temps would be above average and plentiful precipitation. And another source(cant remember which) stated it would be cold and snowy.. Lol.

I just wish when it snowed, the temps were 5-10 degrees colder to make it light and fluffy instead of this heavy crap. hard to handle and a pain to drive in.. Otherwise I don't mind the snow .. Hope it sticks around for Late gun season and ML when i venture back out..

I heard that about most of their stocks being warped and touching slightly on the left, i think its how they set in the box.. I emailed them about my junk magazine and they wouldnt even reply. Heard grreat customer service but no reply kind of upset me.. its been a month and a half..

I chose Ruger American Predator for my predator gun mainly bc its 100% American Made.. and the price was in my range plus many good reviews on its accuracy. I love the gun, the only downfall is the magazine. it is garbage. it jams almost every shell. And there is no "fixed" replacements on the market. I tore the mag apart and put an extra twist in the tension spring and so far it is working better. but that mag is cheap and once taken apart it never goes back perfectly. I wish theyd make a revised replacement.. some manufacturer somewheres..

Did the pods turn black on you? Mine were loaded with pods and seeds. That year i planted RWWS group 4-5 beans. tons of pods. Planted june 20th that year. a few weeks too late, frost got them in late October that year, real close to being matured. And deer never touched the pods.

The corn field gets shared with another guy, so hopefully they chose my plots over the corn.

Hope so, the deer across the street hammer harvested soybean fields. My neighbor thinks i wasted good time and good greenery by fencing them, cause he doesnt believe thyell eat them. I beg to differ, hope these deer pound them. If not, i have an acre of bulbs and a 20 acre cut corn field to hunt.

Even after frost your deer are eating pods that didnt mature? Mine didnt mature one year from planting the wrong group at the wrong time. Deer never touched them. walk right through and not stop. Pods were black in color as well. Maybe a couple weeks from being fully matured.

I think ill be opening the gate to the standing soybeans in another week or so.

Id imagine the deer are loving the only brassica/bulb plot I have that beat the excess moisture this fall.. With all the snow we've had for over a week now. Was getting just shy of 1000pics a week before the snow..

They are not, My grandmother in law watches them, but my daughter just started Pre K this year. That doesnt help. lol .For my daughter its asthma induced, and not recovering 100% from pneumonia 2 years ago. We just switched all of her drs so hopefully they can care for her a little better. Today she goes to see a New ENT Dr and pulmonolgist later in the week.. But shes been doing good since we switched. And my son just went in to Urgent care yesterday for a double ear infection. He needs Tubes again and the dr keeps putitng it off for some reason, He gets ear infections like crazy and his ear drums are scarred pretty bad form them. Cant win with these little ones.

I am in the same boat. We have a 12yr old son, a 4 yr old daughter and a 16month old son. MY 4 yr old is constantly sick, i mean constantly every week or two she gets some type of sickness, ever since she had pneumonia 2 yrs ago.. And my son has some issues going on with him that need attention as well. It makes it hard on all of us, especially my wife who doesn't deal with stress very well.. We both have more than full time jobs, but hers a little more forgiving than mine. The kids come first as always, but with my daughter and youngest having drs appts all the time.. there is no time for anything, and for parents who never dealt with this before, most we relate with dont understand the demand these kids need. Everything lately has been looking a little better, and in hopes they both grow out of this nasty spell their in.. Ive made it out 5x so far, and my wife not once yet this year. Since she alters her schedule with dr appts during the week, and making up work time on the weekends. And not having much family to help us in times like these, sure makes it even harder.. Hopefully the kids outgrow this, and sooner than later so we all can enjoy life like a normal family.. This lifestyle sure makes it hard when trying managing land and a deer herd, and tresspassrs... On a positive note, you make the best of the times when i can get into the woods providing the weather conditions and time of year... but most of all, the deer stay unpressured from not being in the woods much...

22cm or 224 valk!

I have underground springs all over my property and it sure raises hell with plotting when rainfall is more than normal. But helps out in drier times of year. If you dont want to blend it all. do strip planting like your talking of. A lot also depends on size of the plot per species your trying to plant. Protected, or unprotected. Kill plot, or just a feed plot.. etc

Id definitely recommend doing a blend of seeds. Especially if one doesn't take off to well or at all, per your type of soil. But a mix of Alsike, Balansa Fixation, Frosty Berseem, Ladino, Medium Red, Chicory. With an annual nurse crop like Spring Oats or Spring Triticale would do awesome and help keep your weeds at bay some. Blends are awesome in so many ways.. from the soil to the critters. Everything benefits. And everything can be preferred at different times of the year all from one plot. If your soil is indeed damp, you wont even have to till. Seed it, roll it then spray it off with gly, all same day before a decent rain. It beats making ruts with a tiller/tractor and having to work the soil, then work it some more and then some more to get a decent seed bed if its truly that damp.. or even on more dry soils. Remember once you break the soil you release a ton of weed seed. Doing no till, you wont release weed seed. Get a good kill

It has to be an 8P kind of thing! lol

comment and make some posts! interacting basically Im not super active here myself and it took me several years to gain lol

I never know which way i want to mount them lol. Either mount them the way I last remembered seeing them before harvesting. Or if i have a wall void that needs filling.. or to keep some sort of symmetry amongst the wall gang. lol. Or which ever direction/pose makes them look their best etc.. It does get a little stressful.

So sorry for your loss Goosifier.. Your tribute was nothing less than perfect.