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Post by scrub-buster on Mar 6, 2020 22:53:08 GMT -5
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Mar 7, 2020 6:38:10 GMT -5
Looks good! About how far would you guess that it is from your pond or another natural year-round water source?
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Post by scrub-buster on Mar 7, 2020 7:14:54 GMT -5
Looks good! About how far would you guess that it is from your pond or another natural year-round water source? It's about a 1/4 mile away from our pond. But they have to cross through our yards to get to it. It's in a different valley drainage. I think it will draw deer in from that valley because there isn't any water close on that side. Our property is kind of a ridge top between two large valleys. The deer travel back and forth but it seems like they tend to stay on their own sides during the early season. At least that's what it seems like from sightings and trail camera pictures. I'm curious to see how it affects their travel patterns in the early season. It might take away from the sightings around the pond.
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Post by genesis273 on Mar 7, 2020 10:16:54 GMT -5
Looks great, good job! Perhaps a silly question but, way have you placed a branch in it?
I look forward to seeing your trail cam pics and hearing of your successes zipping your homemade arrows through critters with your long/recurve bows!
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Post by scrub-buster on Mar 7, 2020 10:20:47 GMT -5
Looks great, good job! Perhaps a silly question but, way have you placed a branch in it? I look forward to seeing your trail cam pics and hearing of your successes zipping your homemade arrows through critters with your long/recurve bows! Thanks. The limb is to let small animals like mice have a way of climbing out if they fall in.
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Post by esshup on Mar 7, 2020 14:48:30 GMT -5
When it warms up a bit put at least 1 mosquito dunk in it to kill mosquito larvae. It's biological, a bacteria that kills the larvae, not a chemical. BTisraeli
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Post by scrub-buster on Mar 7, 2020 15:36:01 GMT -5
When it warms up a bit put at least 1 mosquito dunk in it to kill mosquito larvae. It's biological, a bacteria that kills the larvae, not a chemical. BT israeliI was planning on putting something in there for the mosquitoes. I'll have to order some.
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Post by steiny on Mar 7, 2020 15:40:17 GMT -5
Good job ! I'm sure the critters will use it.
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Post by featherduster on Mar 7, 2020 18:02:43 GMT -5
Nice!
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Post by Russ Koon on Mar 8, 2020 21:12:09 GMT -5
esshup, would that mosquito dunk also be effective against the midges that can carry EHD?
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Post by benj on Mar 9, 2020 12:39:06 GMT -5
I love that you used an old bathtub! I wouldn't have thought of that.
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Post by scrub-buster on Mar 9, 2020 14:01:23 GMT -5
I love that you used an old bathtub! I wouldn't have thought of that. I had planned on buying a livestock water tank and using that once spring got here. When I picked up the tub for my neighbor I saw that it was in good shape and was about the size that I wanted to use. I figured I would use it and save some $$$
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Post by jbird on Mar 9, 2020 17:02:48 GMT -5
If you have not done so already.....get some hardware cloth and fold it over the edge into the water and use a rod of some sort and stake it to the ground. This is a patent pending concept but I'll let the royalty fee slide.... Mice are not smart critters and if the water level drops too far down they will swim under the branch focused on the end of your tub and never out into the center, where they can access the branch.....this then becomes a mouse trap. Trust me....I know because I have done it. Deer don't like dead mice in their water...."Mice cubes" is not a thing I guess! The hardware cloth simply work far better in my experience.
I found that the deer like water holes.....but the bucks really like them once they are cruising for does in the warm early phases of the rut.
As for your trail cam.....make sure you aim the camera north....otherwise the cam will pick up the glare off the water and trigger.....I had a whole card of video of nothing but the sun shinning in the water for a week once.
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Post by scrub-buster on Mar 9, 2020 17:41:59 GMT -5
If you have not done so already.....get some hardware cloth and fold it over the edge into the water and use a rod of some sort and stake it to the ground. This is a patent pending concept but I'll let the royalty fee slide.... Mice are not smart critters and if the water level drops too far down they will swim under the branch focused on the end of your tub and never out into the center, where they can access the branch.....this then becomes a mouse trap. Trust me....I know because I have done it. Deer don't like dead mice in their water...."Mice cubes" is not a thing I guess! The hardware cloth simply work far better in my experience. I found that the deer like water holes.....but the bucks really like them once they are cruising for does in the warm early phases of the rut. As for your trail cam.....make sure you aim the camera north....otherwise the cam will pick up the glare off the water and trigger.....I had a whole card of video of nothing but the sun shinning in the water for a week once. Thank you for the suggestions. I have some hardware cloth that I can put in it. I'm going back to check it out on Wednesday. I'm excited to see if anything used it. It might take a while for the chlorine smell of the city water to go away.
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Post by esshup on Mar 9, 2020 22:12:03 GMT -5
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Post by scrub-buster on Mar 11, 2020 12:00:50 GMT -5
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Post by freedomhunter on Mar 11, 2020 12:58:57 GMT -5
They are looking around for a scrubby and some body wash
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Post by genesis273 on Mar 11, 2020 13:02:05 GMT -5
Very cool!
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Post by scrub-buster on Mar 14, 2020 10:43:33 GMT -5
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Post by benj on Mar 16, 2020 13:13:26 GMT -5
Very cool!
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