Working at the Farm - Took a few I-Phone Pics

I agree 100%. I've been trading 15 acres of fields to a local farmer to hay in return for some minor food plot work, but it hasn't really paned out as expected. He planted the first year on October 1st, lost most of his seed, and hasn't worked or cut the fields but once in the two years since then. I think he's just busy working 40 on a day job and can't find time to do it all.

So, my plan it to convert a 12 acre field to half clover, half cover. Another farmer wants to lease it for crops, but we already have so many around us that I feel it would best be used otherwise. It should be fun filling in a blank slate.

And as usual, your pics are great.

Keith Nehrke said:

I agree 100%. I've been trading 15 acres of fields to a local farmer to hay in return for some minor food plot work, but it hasn't really paned out as expected. He planted the first year on October 1st, lost most of his seed, and hasn't worked or cut the fields but once in the two years since then. I think he's just busy working 40 on a day job and can't find time to do it all.

So, my plan it to convert a 12 acre field to half clover, half cover. Another farmer wants to lease it for crops, but we already have so many around us that I feel it would best be used otherwise. It should be fun filling in a blank slate.

And as usual, your pics are great.

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That sounds like a good plan Keith. Let us know how it turns out.

My deer and my son's deer from last year came home today. Very happy with the work. There is supposed to be a story on my deer in Rack Magazine sometime next year, but I don't know what month.

Native Hunter said:

My deer and my son's deer from last year came home today. Very happy with the work. There is supposed to be a story on my deer in Rack Magazine sometime next year, but I don't know what month.

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Wow. What a great, great buck.

Native Hunter said:

My deer and my son's deer from last year came home today. Very happy with the work. There is supposed to be a story on my deer in Rack Magazine sometime next year, but I don't know what month.

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Outstanding bucks, congrats!!!

Very nice mounts! You’ve got a good taxidermist!


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Didn't get a picture of the biggest one this week, but got these. Hope nothing has happened to him.

Nice looking bucks, those are “booners” in the NC mountains! Do your summer bachelor groups usually stick around?


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weekender21 said:

Nice looking bucks, those are “booners” in the NC mountains! Do your summer bachelor groups usually stick around?


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Thanks. What generally happens here is that part of them stick around, but the other part will relocate as the rut approaches. It may or may not be the best deer that leaves - it can happen either way.

If a bachelor group has only 2 or 3 deer, I feel that we have a good chance of all of them being around at some point during the season.

One year the best deer I had disappeared from camera two days before gun season and reappeared two days after season closed. The next year I killed him on the second day of season. Last year my booner had been gone from trail cams for quite some time. A guy 2.5 miles from me had him on camera 4 days before he was back at my place and I harvested him.

Over the years, I've been lucky enough to get pictures of the same deer over multiple years quite a bit.

Steve - Beautiful bucks and mounts! And, the up n comers this year ain't bad either. Always nice to catch up on your thread.

I have my food plots in for this year except for overseeding a clover patch with wheat and then mowing. Hopefully I will do that next week. As you can see below, my NWSG cover is coming on strong this year. The top of that shovel handle is chest high on me. This isn't very attractive to deer right now, but when the leaves fall and the temps drop, this becomes a gold mine.





Beans



I dumped 25 gallons of apples from my yard out for the deer at my 20 acres place today. No trees set over there.



Lots of beans at both places. Below is neighbor's bordering my NWSGs.



Some cute little guys - love the stocking feet on that one.





I removed a threat to them this morning.



Only two of the three big ones showed up on camera this week. They have gone nocturnal - probably due to bow hunters using 22 rifles like they normally do around here. These two are mature and on our list for this year.



Got some nice young deer too that I'm hoping make it through until next year.







My dad bleached out the deadhead I found on the creek. He did a good job.



This used to be fescue, and I turned it into a jewelweed patch. Pretty nice huh?




Some plots:







That's all for this time. Stay cool - good time of the year is approching....

Always looking good Native. Snuck that barn pic in there too. I bet Dad was proud of the bleach job

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Always looking good Native. Snuck that barn pic in there too. I bet Dad was proud of the bleach job

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He did a good job on it Lak. He tried to give it back to me, but I told him to keep it and add to his bone collection.

Very nice! I'm glad that your fawns are safe. I didn't know that there even was a varmint load in .50 BMG.

G

George said:

Very nice! I'm glad that your fawns are safe. I didn't know that there even was a varmint load in .50 BMG.

G

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Always of fun thread. As I've said for 10 years, looks like an Eden. Loved the pics of your dad. Which property showing the best bucks? How has the neighbors soybean planting affecting deer movement, if any? Enjoy you season young man.

dogghr said:

Always of fun thread. As I've said for 10 years, looks like an Eden. Loved the pics of your dad. Which property showing the best bucks? How has the neighbors soybean planting affecting deer movement, if any? Enjoy you season young man.

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Thanks my friend. Up until this year, the old 100 acre property has shown the best bucks. However, we took the two best ones off of it last year, so we are in somewhat of a rebuilding mode there this time. But, we have at least four different 3-year-olds there with extreme potential to blow up into big ones next year. My biggest deer this year (so far) are down the road 4 miles away at the new 20 acre spot.

The soybeans usually get picked before we do much hunting, so movement in hunting season isn't affected much. I think the big plus of soybeans is the extra nutrition during the summer months. I know that the overall heard health and rack size has improved a bunch since the soybean farming has started.

Right now I'm looking forward to the rain we have forecasted on Monday through Wednesday. I have seed in the ground just waiting for a good drenching. We aren't in a severe drought like some folks, but we are very dry compared to normal.

PS - Dad called me this morning. He took out another coyote at his place just up the road. They had rolled the hay yesterday, and the yote was checking it out.

I still have a few deer around - at least some of the time.













My NWSGs are rank this year, and these pics were before the Indian Grass bolted. I have my shooting lanes mowed.











Just in case you are wondering where your deer are right now.



New plot germination after the hurricane



Summer feast



Remember to keep the doctor away.



That's about it for today. Thanks for looking.....

I need to bring a trailer and we haul some of those hosses to Alabama