G-Man

53 stands on 430 acres.. Still have 4 more to get up .. Most are hang ons , 3 box blinds,3 ladders and 7 Home built...

Marlin 1895 guide gun in 45-70 gov with 350 grain horndy reloded fxt bullets topped by a Leopold vx-4 3×9 50mm scope

I can move a hang.on into the tree needed to kill a mature buck very quickly and quietly with no need to cut limbs to climb with rail section and can spiral up a tree it would take you hours to trim to climb.. Apple orchard s are not conducive to climbers .. Nor are twisted willows on a streambank or any tree that bits me in bow range to kill the target animal.. I d much rather hunt the bright tree to kill a buck then find a tree that I can climb that may offer me a shot

It's a personal choice ..I let lots go by and sometime I'll shoot the same deer a few weeks later .. It's not hard to get one ..just depends if I feel like gutting one or 3 that day...

I would get a rapid rail section and a nice light weight aluminum stand..if you have to carry on and out.. I have 2 climbers..haven't used them in 10 years.. Hate em

I make everyone walk ..atvs are not allowed on my property..

Grouse and woodcock both seem to be up

This is an 18in diameter hickory.. Only realmspot for shooting because undergrowth to thick and Apple canopy was to low.. Will take a year to re landscape the area for another stand.. Only took 3 years the 1st time..

Well this was one of my favorite stands in an Apple orchard... Only tree around big enough for a stand..hung it last month same.tree I've used since 99 went to trim it out today.... Sigh

The statues are memorials to the dead..I think it's an utter travesty to remove them.I have been to 40 plus battlefields. And have read hundreds of plaques they are dedicated to units.and men or division or states dead..of course they use generals of said units to represent them. I have never seen any that were placed to uphold slavery nor have I seen an actually C.S.A. flag and there are 3 of them except in a museum..the flag we see is a battle flag of northern Virginia actually.. Which didn't secede until Lincoln called up troops 2 days earlier.. Soon in on photos and read what they stand for!! The media says they were erected because of jim crow laws.. They were in face erected when money was easier.. 20 to 50 years after the war because the South was left impoverished. Many were placed by sons and daughter groups at the urging of the war department to mark the dead and positions before the last veterans died.. Many are true works of art by master artists... If you are for removing them you may as well remove all gravestones that have a picture or epitaph you are offended by.. Further taking them down does nothing just like a feel good law.. Leave them and educate.. We don't tear down mosques as Christians because we find them offensive. Or synagogues.. Or vice versa.. The hate of these is tought and wrongfully so..just read the Damn plaques...the one torn down as woman arrested was dedicated to the boys in grey that gave their lives... How is that offensive..

Here is why the war was not about slavery at first.. The South secceded because of right to self govern this included slavery.. But!!! The North invaded the South and the abolitionists would not fight because the North did not make slavery an issue..it wasn't until the North was losing and losing interest in the war when their papers(terms of service) were up 2 and 3 years into the war .when Lincoln knew he needed the abolitionist support and mean and materials they could provide that the emancipation proclamation was given..he even had to wait till the North had a victory to present it as if it was done after a loss he would not gather abolitionist support to a lost cause.. This is fact .. Did slavery become part of the war absoultly was it the cause no.. It was part of the cause for secession but was not part of the births involvement in the initial war that was solely to preserve the union... Of slavery was the main issue freed blacks and abolitionists would of joined immediately.. That is simple fact ..no revisions no interpretations of what we thought they meant.. They stayed out till slavery became the issue .which was only when the North was losing and in danger of giving up on the war.. Was a great tactical move by Lincoln to bolster war support in the North and raise more troops and material and monetary support.

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Well it's been long time since I built pond.. So I'll give you after advice.. Get.pond(mud )crayfish and Chinese trapdoor snail and far head minnows a d let them go when pond is 3 ft deep.. Wait a good 9 months ( over winter to next spring) then decide what kind of fish you want... I did perch and crappie and blue catfish.. A 1/2 acre pond can only support 200 lbs of fish..wether its1 fish that weighs 200 or 200 that weigh 1 pound.. The correct stocking ratio are vital.. 60 perch 40 crappie and 12 cats .. In mine.. You will never need grasscarp if you start with crabs and snails and pond is dug correctly..a quick 2 to 3 ft drop off is best.. Shallow areas are in needed and in wanted..if you have kids teach to swim or make wear life preserver wrong pond until they can swim..my pond is now 25 years old and has great fishing and clarity.. I have since added trout.koi. and some bass.. After the other fish were well established... A correctly built and stocked pond will never need dye or grasscarp.to control weed as the mudcrabs and snail eat new tender growth and will burrow in mud to escape predators.. But it is essential you start with them so they can get established!!

Seems we need to let nature take its course... https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/science/chronic-wasting-disease-deer-elk-prions.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur&referer=http://m.facebook.com/

One good volcanic eruption releases more co2 into the atmosphere than all we have done since the industrial revolution... Co2 is not the problem.. Of it was we would of seen a drastic climate change with the deforestation of North America during the industrial revolution .. Every thing was burning wood and coal.. And take into account t several volcanic eruptions during the same time period sw Asia.. The big change has occured since plastics have been created.. There are plastic islands that act like giant pool covers in our oceans gyers. They superheat and strengthen currents and they effect the jet stream... Also why the North pole is melting (from warm currents under ice) and the South pole is freezing.. Why not solve the plastic problem or even address it? No money in it.. Solar.and batteries.. Open out mining for lithium and silica.produce far more enviromental dangers than co2 that is absorbed by every blade of grass and green plant in the world...

I have yet to see a tick on my property in 25 plus years.. Keds yes lots of them but I haven't found a tick yet and I cut a lot of deer a year.. I am also in the coldest area of wny... Perhaps the grouse population keeps them down like guinea foul?

I have my truck and an 98 mustang convertible.as well as a 71 cj5 I'm just starting to restore... The 98 is almost a classic and is very solid so I just put new top on it last year...what a pain..I'll pay someone to do it next time...whom I kidding I'm to cheap..I'll do it myself again... Though I really like this one... And my neighbor just built this ....

I'd stay away from the rye grass.. Clover some turnip or radish.. To send some hardpan breaking roots down into ground.. Once you have grass it's tuff to get rid of it...

Hunted 3 days one was youth hunt. Called in 5 long beards and 2 jakes. Finding time and weather to hunt was hard this year..

Well Any tree here that bloomed early here has sparce apples.. They have some but looks like they were thined heavy. The late bloomers are loaded.. Glad I planted some years ago specifically for this reason of cold wet spring.. On the bright side.. Find a loaded tree in sparge years and hunting I 1000x better than in a "good" apple year

Personally I wouldn't never seen anything eat them .....though they do make for a Good war as kids throwing the. At each other

Finally had a morning with no rain and I was off.. 2 cobblers and 2 makes came in 1 gobbler didn't leave...

Well you created hard edge. Done between bedding and staging or feed areas properly you can make the deerwalk by your specfic stand sites.. For me hunting became harder as the farmer doesn't pick the corn till last days of muzzleloader.. 30 acres of corn can hide a lot of deer and you won't push them out of it.. I have placed ponds and created bedding where it's advantageous to me to get To and hunt stands.. We do well her reverting 18 deer a year.. Usually 10 doe. Rest buck...

No prperty is a cookie cutter..good plots.may not be the answer.. Over 200 acres that use to be fallow field by me are.now. planted into corn.. They lost a lot of cover I've let several of my.plots go fallow.. Turkeys use it for meeting and deer eat the corns growing and bed in it.. I'm still.lacking some thermal cover but it's growing 2000 spruce and for.

It's a clover plot.. Not much need for plowing.. Spray herbicides..scratch and plant.. Though I agree for plowing a larger area free and clear is nice..though to big and deer won't enter it till dark..