G-Man

I am by no means lazy, I hang 40 plus stands a year,trim countless lanes for shooting,place.and monitor 12 plus trail.cams, plant 12 acres of food plots ,over 500 trees this year, prune apple,and hing cut trees, manage my timber and fallow.field.. I use gun and bow, and I bought a crossbow.. so I'm lazy? It's something different.. lot of criticism from people who get their info off Web sites.. many have never shot one, let alone sit in a stand with one but they are experts or feel they know better.. I've used one and it has benifits and drawbacks. If you want to use one so be it.. my opinion is one of let them be.. heck if spears are made legal I'd try one of them. .

I've never eaten them and have only seen them passing thru in the fall.. I'll have to put some cams on super sensitive and low to the ground and see if I can get some pics..

That's where I've been seeing them in about a 10 year old thinned pine stand.. lots of undergrowth.. it's not marshy at all and has plots in it with clover and old mowed log landings

Neighbor bought one for his gf a few years ago ,she brought it over to my range and sighted it in and ended up taking a nice 8 pt with it from a ladder.. her stock is pink camo but it does the job with the right bullet very well,imo.

I have done a lot of management for grouse the past 10 years and this year the added benifits seem to be an abundance of woodcock! The grouse numbers are up this year as are sighting while putting in food plots and some timber management. I have never seen resident woodcock here in 20 plus years I have owned the land. A few in fall for a day or two as they migrated south ,but I have 4 that I see almost every day I am out ( and they are different birds for sure)they don't chase me on the tractor like the grouse,but scamper and flit ahead for about a hundred yards then stand to the side as I drive by.. I don't really knkw much about them other than they eat worms.. but there must be a reason they decided to stay this year. Perhaps the forest floor thay was sold pine has broken down enough for worms to thrive.. I've looked for habitat info and foods but have not found to much ,but I welcome these funny birds!

Personally I'd get.some timber cut and pile and.leave.tops.. deer will eat.oak leaves bud and nuts.. but if you want to keep deer on peoperty you need cover tops are the best as they will protect the young seedlings that sprout up and deer will eat the bud off them. Then they will bed down wind side of them.. 300 yards wide is tough to establish a trail system around. . But. If you have tops pushed and piled on property lines and do a small plot or two in the openings created by tree removal you may get the deer to stop on their way to where they really want to go..

Yes you can rake off debris, and scratch fey good with rake.. you most likely will have to add lime as leaf litter is usually acidic.

Call dec get permit and shoot it.. only guaranteed way to get rid of it..by the way there are prolly 2 already, next year will be 6..

Won't work as does will keep cycling and a buck will come in from outside areas.. those that are left will run themselves to death trying to breed

Yes if you can wait a few rains the better unless you roll it, mise seeds are small and only need to be 1/4 in or so deep, I have a friend that lost his corn because he was planting in rototilled soil 2.5 in deep and when it settled the seeds were to deep to reach the surface

I would work leaf litter in to soil, as for the stumps it depends on what they are from maple will sprout profusely and deer love it (bonus for plot), oak, ash are also good browse species. If you till you will fluff the soil with out rolling it you risk the seed sinking to deep if you try to work it in. Best plant right before rain. A mix of clover/ brassica may do well its a small area and deer will use it heavily ( they love fresh dirt and sprouts in those stumps Will be a draw by them selves.

Just use a bead and long barrel. Point and shoot.. keep the game close.. had to miss looking right down a barrel at 10 yards..

Apple are spotty due to snow when they were blossoming, those that blossomed late are loaded, didn't freeze off just no Polinators when it's 30 outside..

You don't need a wall the entire distance, in places yes In others more patrol agents. Heck I sure we have land mines around someplace.. as for cost, round up illegals and have them do the labor..

As for their average od bucks per square mile, my numbers at camp this year 10 buck, and 6 doe.. of the buck 4 were 2.5 or older, 5 were 1.5 and one was a button, which goes in their doe (anterless take. ) that's off 200 acres, there are 640 acres to a square mile, so I can assume then my buck take is 18.75 bucks be square mile.. they dec estimate for my wmu is 4 per square mile.. now if I add in the neighbors bucks I know of our take for a square mile was 19. But that is averaged out over thousands of acres.. I don't know how they can manage any population with their sheer guesstimates....

Leland cypress, or western red cedar would be your choices..

Skidder and forwarder.. pretty easy to run..

Leyland cypress, red twiged dogwood, western red cedar. Beauty berry, privit,honeysuckle.. depends on what you want year round screen, seasonal, flowering,

the problem is they are applying a state average to town take when and wmu take..my property is in 2 towns and 2 counties and I try to make sure that each deer is reported in proper county and town as the previous post of yours shows they need to do more surveys of smaller areas this is not being done as reporting numbers and equations are calculated at state level..so by the margin of error increasing by several factors by the time it brakes down into town size.. 2% at state level does not equal 2 % at local level and that's what I mean by areas being wiped out.. goals are set by wmu and one town my be way over quota while one is way under but the average may be 2% error.. while one is 10% over and other 3 or four are -20% under goal.. but total numbers average 2% across wmu...

State wide it may average out, but the state is not managed as a state..it's managed by wmu, northern,southern zones and long island... that is the problem! ! Now break each zone down by wmu and the problem becomes bigger as areas with in the wmu may be wiped out but it still managed as whole wmu . Perhaps smaller wmu would help.. but that means more staff and for the hunter you need to know exact.boundaries to apply..

I know their random sampling is way.off, i,can look at town by town take and for.my.town according to their number I take 10% of town kill off 275 acres.. when the town is 7.miles wide and 14 long.. that Is way off.. no doubt about it.. I know just by talking to the camps on my block they take the entire town "numbers" on about 640 acres . (This is 1 street) and the town has a lot more hunters , so I do not know how or why they think their numbers are close at all...

Got my sweet corn and squash in yesterday.. tractor has flat or field.corn would be done as well..

It just comes down to this... are you willing to not fill your tag because you want a certain sized deer... the answer for most will be no... Untill that mentality changes nothing done will have any broad effect.. Food plots are not the answer and I do not understand the anger at those that plant them.. deer move and most properties are small in ny 75 acres or less. So you just end up feeding the neighborhood deer. Shortening gun season get a lot of resistance but it would have a huge effect on deer population and buck surviveability especially if not open during the rut. A one buck rule that is so talked about.. at.least hearing it on this site many do not even get 1 so how many get 2? There is no data on how many hunters take 2, but as the saying goes 10% of the hunters take 90% of the game. Hunter density is high in ny aND antler restriction 3 a side or 4 aside would high grade the herd with the legnth of our season.. you would quickly have monster 4 pt or 6 pt running around that are old mature deer.. as nearly all genetically better bucks would be shot as yearlings, spike would be common and all you would hear is all I see are spikes and 4 pts

Working the bugs out now, brakes fixed, and adjusting carb.. hill climb test today..

I agree gun season if shortened will do more for the herd than anything especially when dec deer census numbers are all based on buck take.. all top states have short or split gun seasons.. nys.is the most stubborn state when it comes to its season.. they added 2 weeks to bow 1 year later put a youth hunt in second weekend and bowhunters are screaming how it will ruin and is ruining the season.. thing is they ne c er could hunt those first two weeks at all so getting 12 days extra to share 2 is a good trade but no one sees it that way.. and lime I said before there were more hunters for extended period of time when monday was an opening day.. now it's all weekend pressure...