stubborn1VT

I have a couple Brownings that work year round. I have had equally good luck with the older Bushnell E3s. I can occasionally find them on sale at Amazon for less money than the Brownings. To me they seem like the same cam for $30-50 less.

It's always been half an hour before/after in Vermont. Or at least in the 30+ years I have been hunting. I will often get out of a stand in the woods 15-20 minutes before the end of legal and make my way to a clearing, field or powerline so that I can SEE. Sometimes it gets dark early in the woods. When it's too dark to ID your target then it's quitting time. That's common sense and not something that comes from the law book. It's our responsibility as hunters. I met a guy that was hunting next to public land. He heard a shot on his walk to the truck, after legal. One young man had shot his hunting partner in an overgrown field, mistaking him for a coyote. One hunter lost his life and the other lost his friend. You can't unpull that trigger. I'm all for 30 minutes before/after as long as you know your target and backdrop.

Can a dumpster fire be riddled with Covid? They have forgotten most of the fundamentals of winning baseball. I wish I could blame it on a shorthanded roster, but they are underachieving as hard as they overachieved in the first half of the season. It was fun when they had the best record in all of baseball. At least it's a Sale day.

DR does make a Field & Brush mower, as well as the trimmer. I've had the brush mower for 15 years and it's one of the best piece of equipment I've ever owned. It a 26" walk-behind brushhog that will mow 6' tall reed canary and 1" hardwood saplings. It has a locking differential and ATV tires. It's the cat's azz for mowing trails. The downside is that they are not cheap. I saw an older used one on FB for $1400. If it was closer to me I might go buy it because they aren't making that model any more. For fields I use a 5' brushhog behind my tractor, but I have taken my DR places I couldn't begin to mow with the tractor. Good luck whichever direction you chose. I think that maintaining trails is one of the easiest habitat improvements you can make.

I understand the concept. The OP doesn't have perfect arrow flight. You guys can imagine "perfect" all you want. If it were really true you would tune your bow with FP, screw on your BH and hunt without shooting them. In the real world you check anyway in case the BH exposes an issue. The statement is true in a vacuum. That's why you qualify it with lots of IF and SHOULD. All I'm saying is that you need to prove it by shooting the BH too.

I hear you, but people aren't hooter shooters so the idea that the BH & FP will group the same ends up being theory not reality. If it were absolutely true then why do people put on their BH and test them? Often they do NOT fly the same. Whether that is human error or the bow out of tune, it doesn't matter. It needs to be addressed. I'm not saying that FP and BH shooting together at 40 is a big issue, but it doesn't sound like perfect arrow flight.

Up to 7 quarts of bread&butter pickles. Wishing I had planted beets when I should have. I would eat pickled beets 7 days a week.

I totally agree. It's getting to be that time of year! I didn't have much to get excited about on my trail cams, but ANY DAY NOW.

That makes zero sense, as they are aerodynamically a different arrow.

You need to tune the nock left out of it. You want the best arrow flight, even if it means moving your sights for broadheads. There's no reason your FP and BH should hit the same spot. It's a different arrow with the BH on and that's the one you're going to hunt with.

I have some trails and small clearings to mow with the walk-behind brushhog. I don't have any stands to move, just trimming and checking straps. I'd like to make a new brush blind to crossbow hunt out of. I have one here at the house that I need to check. Trim the shooting lanes through the honeysuckle and that one will be all set. I may expand one of my little plots in the woods. Not much really. Just shoot a little and wait for the season to roll around.

Terrible, ugly game. I'll take the win, but it was laughably bad. Wasted 7 innings from Eovoldi, but I guess they won the series.

Good on you for getting out. I couldn't force myself to do it with the humidity. Hoping to mow some trails and check some cams next weekend. Bow season and cooler weather can't get here soon enough IMO. Good thread.

I'm a believer in Whitetail Institute products. Follow the instructions on the bag and they won't disappoint! Hope to see some pics later this fall,

Soil looks great! How big an area do you figure? What did you decide to plant? Hope you get it in. Henri will water it for you.

Checked my brassica planting this morning before I went to work. There are a few areas of standing water, but overall the germination is excellent. Turns out I could have seeded even lighter. I went with 3.75 lbs on a half acre. The seed company recommendations were all over the place. More rain in the forecast. Guess we'll get what we get. Things looked pretty good this morning though.

I'm not worried about getting 45 frost free days at this point, but a blend with some cereal grains in it is probably a safer bet in general. I don't use Glyph, but if I did I would spray and use the existing hay as a seed bed and mulch. A couple hundred pounds of triple 15 is a good call. pH is actually even more important because the plants can't use the fertilizer if it is too far out of whack. Lots of ways to skin a cat.

I mix my own, but I had good luck with WI Wintergreens. Deer Creek seed makes a decent brassica blend. Lots of people love Big and Beasty. My only caution would be that all deer don't take to brassicas right away. That's one reason I suggested doing half and half. I would hate for you to do the work and have the deer ignore it. A blend like Autumn Quick Plot might work. That has winter wheat, winter peas and brassicas. That might be a safer bet. It is made by Frigid Forage. Lots of options. Good luck with it. I imagine I can answer any other question you have. I have quite a few years of farming experience. Last year was the first year that I had a fair sized plot and it made a big difference.

Or just do the whole thing with 6-7lbs of brassicas and call it good. Then go back in the late winter/spring and frost seed it with clover for next year.

Just me, but I'd split the plot in half. Plant half in a brassica mix, the other half in clover with a nurse crop like oats or winter wheat. If you and the landowner are good with spraying it, I wouldn't even bother mowing it short. I'd spray, add a little lime and broadcast the seed, roll it and done. A month later I would add some urea to the brassicas and maybe some triple 15 to the clover/wheat. Something like 4-5 lbs of a brassica mix, 6-7 lbs of clover and 30ish lbs of oats or wheat or a mix of the two.

If you're going to spray, you could most likely just wait for it to kill the grass etc, spread your seed and roll with a lawn roller. As wet at it is it would get decent contact and grow fine.

Still time to plant brassicas in a mix, cereal grains, annual clovers. Those would be my choices. I would spray and disk once, then lime and fertilize the second or third (final) time that I disked. Lots of options for planting ( if it isn't too dang wet) for this fall. It depends on what there is for food around you and what your longer term goals are. Is this on land you own?

All day, every day. Pears are sweeter, softer and easier for deer to eat. All apples are different and deer prefer some apples over others. I have seen tons of apples rot on the ground while others in the same area are completely cleaned up. I'm not discounting your experience, just different than mine.

Have you seen Don Jr? Get a grip.

Nice pics Swede! Deer sure do love pears. Another benefit to multiple plots is that the bucks have to move from one to next to check for does. Keeping them on their feet makes them easier to see and harvest. I look forward to seeing the progress.