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The Amish in our area do follow NY hunting laws. I know a few but, they do get DMAP's every year to thin out some of the problem deer.

The guide does say"close of business on October 1st 2011 to be the DMP cut off date as letinmfly said. Always thought it was last day of Sept..

Can they go back on November 1st ( all saints day), to get the left over tags? This year, it's on a Tuesday, so every town clerks office will be open. Their are more tags given out the 2nd round, than in the 1st, in some areas. That does take one morning out of the field. lol

I have a field near me of about 30 acres. They have been in the ground about 10 days now and are up quite well. I'll get some pics this week.

Farmers up our way are using them for a cover crop. What are your views for use in FP & LM? Heres. more info on them. Radish cover crop.htm

I'm amazed how little light they fly down in the fall mornings. No light in the east sky at all, and hear turkeys flying down hitting the ground. Once you her them, you never forget the sound. They fly into the trees at dusk and roost above our heads, sometimes making the treestands sway.

Harvesting a turkey with a bow is a big challenge. Nice job. Is she headed for the table at Thanksgiving time?

Without a hunting Dept? that yearling was running around in protest, or maybe notttt. lol

Filtered sunlight, deleted white outs

I own a Strealth Cam IR that likes to do the same. The only way it will take a decent picture is to mount it on a limb, say about 10' from the ground on an angle . Use a screw in mount to achieve this. It works better but not 100%. It also don't like filtered sun light. Have to mount it towards the North. Pain getting to it, but you leave it alone more.

Don't want to relive what happen a few years back. Started snowing Thursday night before bow opened Saturday, we got 22" of wet snow. Thunder and lightning, and pounding snow. They called it the" October Surprise" . With the leaves still on the trees, all the weak limbs came down. What a mess. Limbs stripped on every tree in the area. Even the oaks took a hit. No power for 12 days.Took 2 hours to get to our 20 minute spot. Nothing moved, and I don't know how we would have got a deer out anyways. Top it all off, a few miles north, never got anything.

Way to go! Great story.

The muck runs southwest from Clarendon to a little north of Oakfield. Vegetables were grown in the natural humas there years ago, but today, it's alot of corn and soybeans. It's all private owned and alot of people hunt it. The Alabama swamps is full of deer; WMU 8G. My son ( with help) pulled a big doe out last year weighing 140#.

Their's some big deer harvested out of the muck land over your way.

Welcome and enjoy the fun. Know exactly where Holley is.

Seems like Jefferson has good numbers in buck harvest/town. 3157 buck total, last years est.. Do the does with young ones chase the bucks out? Maybe the cameras aren't in the right spots.

Still think it's a great idea. Don't see where a steel bath tub can hurt a thing. Use to sink a cast iron tube in the geese and duck pen when I had them. They had a ball in it. We have a pond on the farm so, we're lucky. It's spring fed and keeps fairly clean. This time of the year, it's full of tracks, including deer. Nice place to set a cam as you showed. We have had 3" of rain in the last week, and the big ditch is starting to fill with water. Looks like it could be boot city for bow if it keeps up. Could it be a repeat of last May ahead?

Corn seems to do as well broadcasting on, as planting in rows. Some hunters out west planted milo this year because their corn was stunted, due to the drought. It seem to do well in droughty conditions. Deer are eating it, even though their not use to seeing it. Seems like something to try next year.

Here are some oats I planted on the last day of August. First time experiment planting oats in the Fall, Protein 14 %. About 5 " tall now. Deer have found them and are hammering away. Still eating alfalfa, trefoil, clover, and grapes

Grow, I know you plant it for the birds, but do the deer bother with the sorghum right now, and what about when it turns brown? Might try some next year.

A farmer friend told me that local raised corn won't grow, because of being dried down to 12% moisture, that kills the germ . The TS store gets their corn from the midwest where is doesn't need drying, thus it will grow. It's also a hybrid so, you take your chances. Grow proved how well it will do.

Thats a great idea. Helping the wildlife out during stressful times, not to mention going green and recycling.

What I thought to be 3 black bears running straight at my stand, 3 little arrows in my quiver, and thinking it was all over for me; I had bought the farm. Turned out to be a neighbors loose black angus cows. ( It was a little foggy) Always bring your glasses! Not to mention, I had to quit a little earlier that evening.

If you go on "Turkey Harvest" on the bottom of that page, go to Turkey Management link. It explains in detail about each part of the state. It's nice to see good numbers in your part of the state. Our NW part of the state just doesn't have good numbers of turkey, and the harvest data supports that. The season starts here on the second week of bow season, and most of the archers, I know, get turkey tags. I won't harvest a hen or jakes , figuring the numbers might rise. About 50% of those archers will take a turkey, like wise with deer, given the chance.The DEC should close fall hen harvest here, to get numbers up. With the Spring we had this year, those numbers will. no doubt, fall more.

I've been thinking of using them , but understand their hard on a Whisker Biscuit's life.