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Wow, I'd get a new camera. Seems out of focus.

I think people in this thread are looking for something that doesn't exist. An always statement as to height. Every set, every stand, every property is different.

I bought my phone outright instead of taking a loan/payment plan on it. My wife brought hers from our Verizon plan. Both are iphones.

I am tied to my phone for business...and I still use Spectrum. No problems.

$45 per line all in. Wife and I pay $90.

We have it. Moved from Verizon. Save around $65/mo between wife and I and no drop-off in service. Unlimited data. Can't say I like their cable pricing and servicing; however, the cell phones...not a single issue.

It should be a good time. Went to the Jacksonville playoff game two seasons ago and that was a blast. I can say I've been to every Bills playoff game since the turn of the century!

That's the only reason to fly to IAH.

Fly out of ROC for IAH Friday AM.

Cool snow accents. I've always wanted to do one.

I'm sitting at 31%; my small cap money held me back. But, I'll take 31% any day. Heck, even one-year I'm at 16% with the horrible end to 18. Looking at what's available in my company funds, I don't think I could have hit 40. Perfection would have been 34.3% all in on a large cap.

Wow.

Concolor for the win!

Nice! My daughter is really interested in seeing the piebald. She keeps asking about it, lol. I'm in no rush - gives me something to look forward to between now and legit shed hunting weather!

LOL, dang, that's a trade secret there!

The finger photo is of the buck we had been chasing for a few seasons. He was demonstrating a pattern that we knew would change and leave us high and dry until late season. Another fortunate hunter got him before that on a nearby property that we suspected he moved to during rutting times. Ah well. I have a folder with more than 1K photos of him during the past four seasons. I think we started tracking him as a 3, possibly 4 y/o.

Looking good as always - how'd the paint come off the barn like that? Assuming from all the mounts you hang there for final showing pics?

@WNY Bowhunter he is our resident expert.

My single shot H&R .410. I love that thing. And I mistreat it like no other.

The one from 12/8 is dead. Killed him that morning about 20 feet from where he is in those pics.

Some pics of them going after these plots. Only driven piece of equipment used here was a lawn mower.

We're moving real quick to never breaking up the ground, with the exception of a first year in some cases. It limits what kind of seeds/plants you can grow but like anything else, I think once you find that balance that works for you, then it's pretty simple. Take your basic grassy field location, and you can mow it, or simply spray it a time or two during spring and early summer, and then come back at planting time. Seed, lay fertilizer, lime as needed, spray and roll it. It's really that simple. We did do a soil test ahead of it in Spring, so we knew what application rates to hit. We seeded into unmowed 2-3' grasses, laid down fert and lime, sprayed, and drove over it with the UTV tires. Deer are hammering bulbs right now still in that spot. We had luck with brassica, WW/WR, peas, oats, and clover. Corn and beans are not ideal candidates, but they're also labor intensive. We're going to use our free time to do other equally important prep work this year.

We didn't crimp this year- we sprayed gly. Would like to get on the crimp bandwagon at some point but spraying is just too easy to manage comparatively. Likely more beneficial long-term to crimp but we're really intent to reduce the amount of time we plot. We did use a roller afterwards though and I am sure it helped. We spent ALOT of time on the beans and trying to make a magical seedbed out of a magazine, and fence, etc. Not enough ROI. Almost all of our ROI came on plots that were done in August/Sept, two of which we spent less than two hours on, each, in total.

We planted more than 2.5 acres of it at two parcels - one with higher deer density and one with lower. The lower took easier but it just wasn't the late season draw we had hoped; standing corn was nearby and I was expecting them to still hit the beans. Almost no action on it. The other place we set up a perimeter and planted two acres. Gone. They knocked down, jumped over, went under our plot saver with vengeance. I have cam pics of 30+ deer in it in summer. Thankfully we salvaged it with a strong brassica and oats/ww effort in late summer. Short of an electric fence, beans were alot to manage for us. We may try again next year but it's not a guarantee. I think we're becoming fans of the seed/fert/lime/spray/crimp method. Some of our most productive plots were done with a few hours of work using a push spreader, hand seeder, and a tow behind sprayer and roller. We'll use that time savings on more productive prep work. I actually think we could take care of all of our plots in two-three days all-in that way across the entire off-season. We will be frost seeing in clover this year, though.

My hunting partner and I have Aerohunters. Takes getting used to but can be helpful no doubt.