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  1. 35 minutes ago, Four Seasons said:

    Are you still spending some time on the East side of the park?  Word around the West side is their talking about doing another winter Cull to lower the numbers?  I would like to know how they get their numbers. 

    You and me both.. I can usually always get on the deer but this has been the worst year yet.. this is my 4rth day and havnt seen a deer yet..

  2. 15 minutes ago, First-light said:

    What should Iook for?

    Quite a few different ways to skin the cat..

    Some diagonal wood braces let into the wall running at 45° from the bottom to top of wall,or if the inside is remaining unfinished attached to the inside(probably like it is now?) , sometimes a  metal strap is used for the same purpose, sometimes installing 1 piece of plywood on each will suffice. 

    Either way it's not likely to fall down ;) I see places being built like this often..lol.. Purlins and board and batton alone aren't technically enough to resist the wall from moving though.

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  3. On 10/17/2022 at 9:12 PM, grampy said:

    Yes sir. You hit the nail on the head. This thread comes up every year. And my answer is always the same.

    Get out as much as you can from Halloween to the end of November. But the "magic" day is November 10th. And the five days before and after. These are the days when you'll see bucks standing in the middle of a field in daylight. Running across the road in front of your truck. Blindly following the scent of a doe coming close to estrous. These are the take your vacation, sit as long as you can in the woods days. 

    Happens the same time every year.

    Spot on! If I had to pin down a single day that is my favorite, it is Nov 10th. Close to every buck I've shot on that date were hot on a doe..

     

    It's funny, because just the other day we were talking  deer at work and I told the couple young guys that that was the magic day. One of them drags out his phone and shows me pictures of a beautiful 10 point he shot a couple years ago. He checks the date and it was 11/10.

    Lol.. mike drop  ;)

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  4. 1 hour ago, Pygmy said:

    I love it too...As long as I have Moog in the blind to load it for me ( plus THROW my deer in the truck)..Hehehehe...

    Ha.ha.ha. I love my encore as well. But they are a bear to load after a shot or 2.. I've had to use a tree for an assist before.;)

  5. 10 minutes ago, suburbanfarmer said:

    Its easy to take all that you listed without gutting

    I concur.. I did it last year for the 1st time on an elk and it wasn't difficult.. I was just a little confused with the "bone it out" terminology.;)

  6. 4 hours ago, Bolt action said:

    X2

    I'll open it in the field from the top of the back and bone it out from the top down. I won't even cut into the gut cavity. Not worth the mess for the sake of 2 potentially tainted loins. 

    Do you take quarters, backstrap, and neck, etc..? Just like one would typically do with an elk?

    I assume not actually boneing it out?

  7. 40 minutes ago, Splitear said:

    I try to be courteous and non-confrontational, I never know what anyone has going on. However, the one thing I cannot stand are those who ride my tail and flash their lights at me. If I'm passing on the interstate, and have a car behind me that's moving quicker, I'll speed up and get around the other vehicle so the car behind me can continue on. However, every once in a while there's someone who is so important that they want me to know how much I cam inconveniencing them. At that point, I'll cut back to only going a mile or two an hour faster than who I'm passing and take my time, no need to be unsafe. 

    Tailgating is the one thing that really bothers me when driving. That and driving fast on the backroad I live on.

    If they draft me for a bit then pass when given the opportunity I give them a pass , otherwise I just start gradually slowing  down until they finally pass . By being on my bumper they are raising  mine and my passengers risks. There is no way they aren't hitting us if I  have to stop quickly.

     

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  8. 5 minutes ago, Kmartinson said:

    It doesn't really matter to me what you guys are grumbling over. I sent the jaw out because it seemed so young, and that's the results. He looked even bigger when I found him

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    Ha.ha. No grumbling here.Just, throwing out my unsolicited opinion...

    I would have shot him all day long even if he weighed 125#s and was 10 years old..;)

     

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  9. 4 minutes ago, Kmartinson said:

    This deer is from ithaca ny, it's around 127" and weighed 180lbs dressed. The teeth were aged at 2.5 years young. I wont let a 20+ inch deer walk by and I surmise most of you wouldn't either. Genetics play an important role. You cant judge age from a cam picture and really why does it matter?

    That's a nice buck in question but if you have pics that make it 4.5+ why did you ask us to guess and then be mad when people20220926_192217.thumb.jpg.191b90f7d8060f72aa2792d3efe55200.jpg20220926_192202.thumb.jpg.7f4634c1bdfaec3ad7a9c46ab498dc53.jpg state thier opinion? I may have missed the point? 

    That being said I hope everyone has a great hunting season and harvests deer your proud of no matter what size or sex. 

    At 180#s dressed , I wouldn't personally put much value on the fact that the  teeth put him at 2.5

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  10. 2 hours ago, Grouse said:

    He's taking farmland out of production.  That has an impact, especially when he's only one of the people doing it.  He's just doing his part to attack modern farming and force the changes he would like to see on the rest of us.

     

    What are your sources? Most info out there says that it was purely an investment , still in production, and not even his original idea. No doubt land typically is a great long term investment.

  11. 38 minutes ago, Moho81 said:

    Maybe I am traumatized from my childhood but whenever cube steaks get mentioned all I ever wonder is why?

    We had them often (I assume because they where a cheap meat) they where always dry yet greasy. I had to douse them with ketchup to make then edible. My poor mother thought I had an obsession with ketchup growing up. I do not have the heart to tell her that I loved ketchup so much growing up because it made her well done everything taste better.

    I've rarely eaten cube steak since I was a kid.

    Mom always cooked it on the stove top with some water and French onion soup mix. " Gravy" poured over rice..

     

  12. 4 hours ago, Shoots100 said:

    I was clearing trails around the land last weekend and watched a hen fly up into a tree to roost about 50 yards away.

    It was almost dark, so I grabbed the thermal to take a look and while I was watching, a poult stick's it's head out from under her wing.

    Didn't see any other poults in the tree.

    First time seeing a hen cover a poult this way, but I guess when you only have one poult, you keep it close by.

    Hen + poult

      

     

    That's neat! A lot different than what I witnessed earlier this year.  

    A couple hens with a pile of poults were crossing the rd in front of me. Both hens took off like crazy through the woods leaving the poults to run/wander around aimlessly in the middle of the rd with no clue what to do or where to go..lol

  13. Absolutely.. For me it has been a huge time saver.

    In the past, when hunting a new chunk of land I would spend countless days wandering a new chunk of land until I had a good picture in my my mind of what the land looked like and how the deer used it. When the pieces were far from home my hunts were not near as productive as they could be because I spent too much time exploring. 

       Now I can go into a new area and know what it looks like and hunt the "best " spots emmediately  .

    Here's a screen shot of spots I've scouted and have hunted or plan on hunting. Lol1385653030_Screenshot_20220805-072614_onXHunt.thumb.jpg.5f6566c8cb20ae747bf80bb228f30bb7.jpg

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