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Harvested 4 coon last year. Have had another 5 hit on the road this year. I like to thin them out, and still many more fill in. I've heard way to many, while turkey hunting also. I'm trapping this year, in hope to reduce numbers even more. We're just loaded. I'm sighting turkey poults here daily now. I was worried for a while, like others seeing hens with 0 poults. Their starting to show with very late hatched chicks. Can't see them with my naked eye. Video brings them in nicely.

Feral Hog Look for these tracks.

Leaving the hair on, this is what I do. Remove all the fat and left over meat off the hide. Use non iodine salt to completely cover the hide for 3 days. Spray off the salt. let drain for 30 minutes. I pickle mine in citric acid, but alum works just as well. Use 1 lb alum, 2 lbs of salt adding to 1 gallon of heated water. Once desolved, add mixture to 3 gallons of water mixing well. Soak the hide for at least 4 days to a week. Make sure to mix the hide and solution a couple times a day. I hold my hides down with bowling balls in shopping bags. The hide must be completely covered with the solution. The hie will turn white when done. If citric acid is used, a baking soda solution must be used to neutralize the acid. Use plenty of water on the rinsing process. Now your ready to fletch the hide. I use an Alaska style scraper on a fletching board. This is the toughest process,and hours of hard work. I stretch my hides out on a cardboard plywood backer for 24 hours. I feel this speeds up the drying process of the hide, but be sure to remove the cardboard after this period. Once dry, scrape the hide to the desired softness. I'll rub neadsfoot oil into them to make them baby bottom soft.

So is the rest of North America, LOL.

Good luck on your future education. Some great hunting on the Iroquois Wildlife Refuge, maybe 20 minutes up the thurway from Buffalo.

clock. We really need one! What are we running, about 93 days till October 1st......... Yahoo! I really can't wait to bow hunt!

Have a great days guys and enjoy.

Send some our way, LOL.

Some really great ideas here! I plant common wheat and oats and try to get in a least 4 acres. Add a couple hundred pounds of fert. pre acre before planting. Pretty inexpensive to weight out the benefits. The oats serves as good browse up to a hard freeze. Not uncommon to count 14 to 21 deer in the oats some evenings. The wheat serves right into December until browsed down. Wheat also grows early in Spring for good food source. I recover cost buy combining the wheat, baling the straw and selling. Funny, I just realized I have a great thing going on here, LOL.

Baling hay Saturday. A big hen stepped into the field out of a hedge row after grasshoppers. I could see the ground moving inside the hedgerow but the poults never came out. I got quite close to her with the tractor before she walked back into cover. That surprised me.

Staged!

Welters call them groundhog radish. I plant 7 - 8 lb to the acre. Does the ground a lot of benefit as well as the deer.

I just can't get field corn planted, so I have to turn to other forms of carbs.. I like my Daikon Radish. Always get them at Welters Seed & Honey Co. I'm sold on their use for deer feeding supplement. Plant in August when the weather at it's finest for tillage. Gosh darn it, I just can't say enough good about them, LOL. The proofs in the pudding!

Video my first batch last Wednesday. Very tiny, maybe a few days old. Could only view them in the eye of the camcorder. Anyone else seeing them? I'll get that video posted in the near I

to Paula and Mr VJP.. Born on the Forth of July. How lucky is that!

Glad to see your effort put forth! Good luck and please post some pics on their progress. I'm curious as to how they will do.

Happy Birthday America!

Be interested to see why it's swinging in the breeze.

A good hand meat saw works just as well, without the bronze from the armature and carbon from the brushes.

Interesting. They may be sold in New York, but can't be used legally. Like Deer Cane.

Their is one nesting over by me.

Ka- Boom! LOL

I've never hit one; close calls, yes sure ree bob. If I ever do, that deers going to have a date with my freezer!

Nice pics. Wasn't aware eagles were that far west. My son was by Motor Island yesterday, reeling in Small Mouths. Dads going to enjoy some nice pan fish tonight! On a side note, it's free fishing weekend in New York. Enjoy everyone!

Looking good! Hard work should pay off this fall. That reminds me to get my order into Welters.