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Post by featherduster on Jul 12, 2024 11:55:23 GMT -5
I have a neighbor that is about 1/3 mile away that loves 'coons. So much that he has the nuisance trappers (critter control,, etc.) drop them off at his place. You need to get rid of that neighbor. As they say on the television show YELLOW STONE you need to take him to the train station. ![:-[](http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/images/smilies/new1226/cheers.gif)
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Post by esshup on Jul 12, 2024 12:13:40 GMT -5
LOL His son lives right across the street from me and can't understand his Dad's liking of them. He is telling me to get rid of them as fast as I can. Whenever the neighbors chickens get terrorized I put DP traps around the coop and clean up.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Jul 12, 2024 21:19:32 GMT -5
Did some driving around tonight and saw over 100 deer. Saw quite a few bucks, but only one was close enough to see pretty well and he was a pretty good one. Plenty of does and quite a few fawns as well. This was just around one big country block and another few miles down a different road.
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Post by boonechaser on Jul 13, 2024 5:43:48 GMT -5
I have a neighbor that is about 1/3 mile away that loves 'coons. So much that he has the nuisance trappers (critter control,, etc.) drop them off at his place. When they start showing up in garage, on front porch, and in my feed room. We got a problem. Up to 14 dead , and had 9 on a camera in front deer feeder. I suspect there will be 3-4 less this morning.
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Post by boonechaser on Jul 13, 2024 7:21:36 GMT -5
Ha, ha. 4 more gone, up to 19. No coons in barns and garage in last 2 nights, will keep after them for another 2 nights and then let em be.
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Post by esshup on Jul 13, 2024 19:14:53 GMT -5
Keep feeding the vultures!
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Post by boonechaser on Jul 14, 2024 20:05:49 GMT -5
Last night of raccoon depopulation. Checked cameras and feeders, had 3 day walkers evidently. (They no longer walking.) Brings total to 22. Have had none in the garage nor in 2 barns last 2 nights, so hopefully I don't have to go through this again. Leave for Tennessee lake vacation Tuesday morning for some much needed R&R for a week.
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on Jul 15, 2024 8:16:49 GMT -5
Last night of raccoon depopulation. Checked cameras and feeders, had 3 day walkers evidently. (They no longer walking.) Brings total to 22. Have had none in the garage nor in 2 barns last 2 nights, so hopefully I don't have to go through this again. Leave for Tennessee lake vacation Tuesday morning for some much needed R&R for a week. Enjoy your R&R
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Jul 20, 2024 13:24:20 GMT -5
I sprayed out 1/2 acre of clover today from my big plot to put in a brassica mix in a few weeks.
The remaining clover looks pretty good considering the heat, just a few patches of grass and broadleaves coming in here and there. I’ll spot spray it with Imox probably early August, then give it a mowing sometime around Labor Day.
My plans for the big plot for this year are 1/2 acre of brassicas layered with rye, 1 acre of the existing white clover, and probably another 3/8 acre of new clover with rye as a nurse crop. The 3/8 acre piece is the new expansion I carved out this summer. I’ll get back to work this winter doing some more expansion, I think I can eventually get it to 3 full acres.
My new plot back in the woods, 1/2 acre that I cleared out late winter/early spring, is in sorghum. It’s about 4’ tall now, still hasn’t formed seed heads yet but looks great. I intend to go out and broadcast clover and rye into it once the sorghum dries down this fall, and by next summer should just have a stand of clover out there.
I’ve got big plans and dreams for these plots, it’s just slow going clearing acres of tangled vines, brush, and trees by hand.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Jul 20, 2024 17:23:28 GMT -5
You’re doing great work on your place. It all takes time and you’ll get it where you want it eventually.
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Post by duff on Jul 21, 2024 6:08:11 GMT -5
The real question is, did you get my stand put up yet?
You keep telling me it is next on your list. I am starting to think you might be stringing me along.
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Jul 21, 2024 9:49:08 GMT -5
The real question is, did you get my stand put up yet? You keep telling me it is next on your list. I am starting to think you might be stringing me along. I did get a new set hung last night. I’m still working on getting the wifi and cappuccino bar installed, I know it’s not up to Duff standards yet..
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Post by duff on Jul 21, 2024 10:30:16 GMT -5
The real question is, did you get my stand put up yet? You keep telling me it is next on your list. I am starting to think you might be stringing me along. I did get a new set hung last night. I’m still working on getting the wifi and cappuccino bar installed, I know it’s not up to Duff standards yet.. Wifi is a nice to have. Coffee is a must.
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Post by greghopper on Jul 21, 2024 10:57:58 GMT -5
The real question is, did you get my stand put up yet? You keep telling me it is next on your list. I am starting to think you might be stringing me along. I did get a new set hung last night. I’m still working on getting the wifi and cappuccino bar installed, I know it’s not up to Duff standards yet.. I would thought he had graduated to a shooting house and all its comforts 😊🦌
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Jul 21, 2024 20:59:58 GMT -5
![](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240722/0cd474d687e3b7c47ab957e31eb4285e.jpg) Here’s the stand I hung last night. A nice hang-on with a cheap ladder stand to access it. I’m standing in the new 1/2 acre food plot looking up at it. The road is about 25 yards behind it, an east wind will blow across the plot to me and then out across the road and over the neighbor’s field. I cut a trail in from the road to the backside of the stand tonight, so I should have quick and easy access straight in to it.
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Post by esshup on Jul 27, 2024 10:41:47 GMT -5
I sprayed the food plot with glyphosate yesterday, I had mowed the weeds down to about 10" height on Monday. I'll broadcast radish, turnip and some other fall seeds next weekend, then mow tight to the ground to create mulch over the seeds. Then start praying for rain in earnest. It's very sandy soil, so much that there is a patch of eastern XXXXXly pear cactus growing not 20 feet from where the food plot is.
I also sprayed the switchgrass that I planted last winter with 2,4-D.
I'm so frustrated with trying to get food plots planted every year in this type of soil that I am seriously contemplating buying a drill. If I do, it'll probably be a Tar River SAYA-507. If I go that route I'll most likely rent it out to help recoup some $$. I know, I know....... Renting it out is a slippery slope.
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Jul 31, 2024 19:52:28 GMT -5
I put a new tin roof on one of my elevated stands tonight. The fabric was ripped and flapping. Doesn’t look fancy, but ought to keep me dry.
Also been shooting a little more. Been tinkering with stabilizers a bit trying to balance the bow out just right.
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Post by duff on Jul 31, 2024 20:32:42 GMT -5
I hit the brakes hard on 2 big bucks this morning. Dandy ones that got too close to me.
Thought about deer hunting today...season prep complete
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Post by schoolmaster on Aug 2, 2024 9:30:50 GMT -5
Sharpened knife. Checked rifle scope. Reloaded 2 rounds I shot last season. Got some fuel for my buddy heater.
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Post by boonechaser on Aug 3, 2024 8:56:05 GMT -5
Thank you, Lord. Have received a little over an inch rain in last 48 hours. (More than the previous 7 weeks). Will really help crops and plots. Got several sprayed prior to rain, and I will let it soak in and get fall plots seeded this week.
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