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Looking to source 2 each of Florenia and galarenia apples. Sent from my iPhone using Deer Hunter Forum

What do use to block the deer from walking right up to your stand? Not really looking for answers like logs or fencing. Should like to have a plant that has some wildlife value, just maybe not in October or November. Gigantus? Some sort of screen hedge? I have full sunlight and wouldn’t...

In central Indiana english oaks and their crosses seem last. There was a tardily English cross that held on until December at an old farm that I hunted. I would love to know what they were and to have gotten some nuts going from them. The owner was a once a forestry student at Purdue and...

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I'm out in a local park hunting acorns. Noticed the squirrels hammering this one. I'm not great with the red oak family. Very small acorns. Sent from my iPhone using Deer Hunter Forum

My grandfather turned 80 this May. His health was very poor this spring and we almost lost him. He is now back to his old self; fishing, cutting firewood, and dreaming of the the November rut that he thought he would never experience again. This is man that taught me to love the bay of the...

Who has added English Oaks in tree plantings? I always liked how they hung on the tree into late November at our old lease. The deer ate them, but didn't seem to love them. They could have picked them off of the trees, but they waited for them to fall. I also like the fact that I can get...

What does everyone do with the white oak family acorns if you get them after a radicle is starting? I'm leaning towards putting them in containers in my garage. Let the root start going, but hope it is cool enough to slow growth until I'm ready to push them in the basement later this winter.

I have a chestnut tree that we think is a japenese chestnut or a cross. It has not dropped its nuts and the burrs are not opening yet. I'm in the very southern part of Indiana. When can I expect the nuts to drop? Can I pick the burrs before they drop? I could only reach a few of the burrs...

What type of chestnut? American, Chinese, or a cross?

I mentioned this on the other site: I need a screen in a heavily shaded steep area. I do not want to cut trees for 2 reasons: I'm afraid of erosion in this spot and it wouldn't do much good because the trees across the street with still shade it. It is so steep that if I planted something...

I have several sheds lying around and I thought of making a few antler handle knives. I have read up on and watched several how to type videos, but haven't taken the leap yet. Anybody else out there doing this? Any words of wisdom? I would like to make durable usable knives not just pretty...

I have a few in the archives. So I thought I would share for those who like to guess. All are Indiana bucks. Our rut peak is in mid November. Some of these I know the age of and some I do not. I'll start with a buck had a long history with.

We do not have many of these in the county that I live in. It is a corn desert that goes back and forth with another county in Indiana as the worst place in the state to deer hunt; normally around 100 deer a year. There is an area around an old landfill with several large parcels of CRP. Both...

I personally can't name just one. I had a doe, very small spike, and a button buck come bed under my stand. I believe the spike was a fawn that produced a very small rack. He had one inch curls of hard bone unlike most button bucks. The spike and button did a little sparing before bedding...

I was wondering if anyone has used Granny Smith trees for wildlife. The late maturing apple time, the vigorousness of the tree, long hanging fruit, and shelf life seem like great fits. The disease resistance seems questionable.

I was pretty new to the old site and not famous like some of our great members, but I would like to continue what I started over there. My farm is smaller than most and I would like to show what you can do with smaller tracts. I'm still learning and love doing the habitat improvements.