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Thanks guys, I'm pretty lucky when it comes to decent bucks. Both of those in the pics have been around a couple of years. I have sheds from both, and have stalked within 10yds of both. I might decide to shoot one of them someday. Both boys are calling dibs on them. It's every man for themselves this season!

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Almost missed it, but is that a Che fruit? I've been meaning to get on of these for a couple years. How long did it take to fruit?
Yes, it is a Che. I don't remember exactly how long they've been in the ground... maybe 3rd yr? They have produced and then aborted several times. This is the longest one has held fruit. The deer love the leaf's! They push on the cages and work to get to them. I've had to restake the cages several times due to them being pushed off the t-posts. In fact, the pics of the two nice bucks were of them going to a Che to try to steal a leaf or two. If I ever learn to graft them onto native hedge I think I'll have a very heavy draw just for browse. I know they hammer them more than any apple tree I've ever planted.

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Great looking bucks,get that boy a release
Good eye! He doesn't want a release. He's a lot like his dad, I shot fingers for a couple of decades before going to the release (nerve damage and numb fingers forced me to). I've offered and told him it's more accurate, but he likes the feel of shooting natural. Not going to argue with him, he gets to shoot however he wants when we are shooting targets.

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Yes, it is a Che. I don't remember exactly how long they've been in the ground... maybe 3rd yr? They have produced and then aborted several times. This is the longest one has held fruit. The deer love the leaf's! They push on the cages and work to get to them. I've had to restake the cages several times due to them being pushed off the t-posts. In fact, the pics of the two nice bucks were of them going to a Che to try to steal a leaf or two. If I ever learn to graft them onto native hedge I think I'll have a very heavy draw just for browse. I know they hammer them more than any apple tree I've ever planted.

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That settles it, I'm going to get a couple Che's. Lord knows I have enough hedge trees for grafting. The way that species grow I'd think grafting would be fairly successful.

I noticed a big mulberry tree tonight that is still dropping and there is quite a bit left to go. Pretty darn late for mulberry, so that ones going to get propagated too. Might be a little late for this year, but I'm going to try.
 
It is late for mulberry to still be dropping! I love mulberry trees, would diffintiately try to propagate one that was still producing.

I'm still not sure what to think of the Che. I have yet to eat a fruit so I don't know if they'll be enjoyable to me, but the deer sure go to great lengths to eat the leafs. I'm sure they could be useful if put to use the right way. Post how the grafting goes for you. I know you can buy scions online...

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Place looking great Cat. Really nice bucks coming along.
Cool shot of the kids shooting. I need some of that hair. And I like the finger shooter, my kind of guy. If he wants to carry it further, and go mechanical sight free, have him youtube The Push and watch the video explaining the technique of aiming usuing whats called the fixed crawl.
Even tho directed to trad shooters, works with any bow. While I always was just a freestyle shooter, that fixed crawl aiming is the bomb. Thanks for showing.
 
Place looking great Cat. Really nice bucks coming along.
Cool shot of the kids shooting. I need some of that hair. And I like the finger shooter, my kind of guy. If he wants to carry it further, and go mechanical sight free, have him youtube The Push and watch the video explaining the technique of aiming usuing whats called the fixed crawl.
Even tho directed to trad shooters, works with any bow. While I always was just a freestyle shooter, that fixed crawl aiming is the bomb. Thanks for showing.
If I ever buy a new bow it will be really long AtoA so that I might be able to go back to fingers. The kid has shot a lot of different bows. We used to make PVC bows after researching different historical designs. We would spend an evening putting together a Mongolian, a Parthian, or a Japanese calvaryman style of bow and shoot it just for fun and experience. He's settled on a compound right now but that's probably just because that's what he sees dad shooting. Thanks for the info on aiming, I'll give it a look sometime.
He does love his hair. If mom wouldn't keep cutting it he would have it a foot tall!

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Putting up an efence has made a huge difference for the flower plots I've planted. I didn't put the fence up until after they had mowed down the sunflowers for a couple of weeks. Luckily they recovered and are catching up again.
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Huge difference between fenced brassicas and beans compared to outside the fence. Outside both species are eaten to the ground.

Deer don't bother my pumpkin vines but squash bugs do. They can kill a vine in days. I'm trying to keep them sprayed but having trouble keeping up.
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I did a card pull today and I don't feel like editing through the pics. Just going to post all of them so don't be surprised to a lot of the same deer.
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Thats a heck of a buck with inside points,How long do you have to do paper towel germination test before giving up?I had a heck of a tme with soybeans this year,First planting failed and I blamed on heavy rain,planted again and maybe got 25% germination
 
Thats a heck of a buck with inside points,How long do you have to do paper towel germination test before giving up?I had a heck of a tme with soybeans this year,First planting failed and I blamed on heavy rain,planted again and maybe got 25% germination
I don't really know, but I would guess 3 to 4 days to get most of them germinated. I saw that you replanted in your thread. Unfortunate you haven't had better luck this year.

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This is a good momma doe! She has twins and you almost never see them both at the same time. She keeps one hidden and always has her head up on a swivel. I like does like her.
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