Pa Hillbilly Farming
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Mennoniteman
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Yup, shed's too big. Gotta buy more equipment.
Luckily I got most of the equipment in before the ice storm this week. Nothing organized, I just kinda threw everything in that was handy to get too. Light hunting pressure seems to have kept all our resident bucks on the DLL.
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farmhunter
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Love this whole thread. The Polebarn is really great - goals!!
also would like that rock picker myself - I never see them for sale!!
We have a safe 350 yard Pipeline shooting spot, yours looks 2x that! The hunting box we have on the downwind end isn't quite a shooting bench like yours but its a popular draw for us! I think the farthest we have shot is about 290. Quite a few at 200-250. Shooting past 300 will teach you a lot about wind!!
also would like that rock picker myself - I never see them for sale!!
We have a safe 350 yard Pipeline shooting spot, yours looks 2x that! The hunting box we have on the downwind end isn't quite a shooting bench like yours but its a popular draw for us! I think the farthest we have shot is about 290. Quite a few at 200-250. Shooting past 300 will teach you a lot about wind!!
Double L
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Thank you Farm hunter. I am a very goal oriented person too. Dialing in for the wind is by far the biggest factor when stretching out the shots. Some snear and say it’s not hunting but just shooting. I usually reply back that unless your shooting a flintlock don’t knock it till you try it. We have now pretty much go for head shots only. That way if someone doesn’t have there top game face on it’s a clean miss. We have never lost or crippled an animal yet. “Luckily “. At 300-800 yards any hit pretty much looks like you hit them with a Mack truck. We have so much fun picking off the does that it must be a huge buck for someone to shoot it. My buddies all wait till it’s doe harvest time. It’s a great time eating and socializing at the shooting bench. My wife only complaint this year was she wants her own long range gun now. Santa Claus is bringing her a 6.5 PRC.
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Double L
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This was the only injury we had last year.
She is either very lucky or very unlucky
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Mennoniteman
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that looks like a holey deer
This was the only injury we had last year.
She is either very lucky or very unlucky
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Hoosierhunting
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This was the only injury we had last year.
She is either very lucky or very unlucky
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You sure you shot her through the ear? I think that’s just the look the young ones are going for these days.
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Double L
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That is funny. I will have to check them for tattoos also. They just lay around eating and sleeping all day so I believe your right about the younger ones these days. And before you say anything about the weeds in the clover Mennoniteman. My sprayer was broken and my new mower hadn’t shown up yet.
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Mennoniteman
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You need to read my post from this morning in "regenerative plotting" about no-till planting oats in your clover fields in late March, since you are fortunate enough to have a notill drill. This is guaranteed to save half of your weed spraying. I know that I talked to you a lot about herbicide, and by doing so I may have neglected to stress how important it is to periodically use up your excess nitrogen in your clover fields, if you don't you'll eventually get into a loosing battle with grass in your clover.
Double L
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Well it looks like it will be a month or two before any Habitate work will be done. Next week in San Deigo for a week then mid February a week in Indianapolis. Right now we have so much ice you can’t even think about doing anything. Road to cabin can not even be driven on with pick up. So many trees down from ice at least Mother Nature did some bedding area for me, just might not have been exactly where I wanted. I’ve been working on the equipment so I’ll be ready for spring. Repainted dozer and changed winch out to make it more user friendly for retrieving logs. Picked up a rock windrower in Ohio few weeks ago. Going over it now. Hopefully ice melts next week and I can get my fruit trees trimmed. They really grew well last year.
Got myself new CTL Only got to blow snow with it yet. At least it didn’t get muddy yet.
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Got myself new CTL Only got to blow snow with it yet. At least it didn’t get muddy yet.
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Nice, that winch should come in handy!
Double L
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Yepper. Since I need to clear right of way for power to shed I’m gonna make it about 1.5 acre food plot. And I a have a steep long ravine that I’d like to make into a pond that has some nice log trees in it. The winch will make those not so bad of jobs. The old cable was so big it was like wrestling an anaconda. This one is much easier.
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Double L
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The game commission wants to trap turkeys and tag them with transponders to track jakes and gobblers. They put out feed to chum the turkeys in. I guess I forgot to tell them since we are in a CWD area they needed to put a sign up saying feed is for turkeys only. Deer not allowed. Lol
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Mennoniteman
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Are these creatures perhaps a new breed of wingless brown turkeys that the newly graduated biologists at the game commission are trapping?
The game commission wants to trap turkeys and tag them with transponders to track jakes and gobblers. They put out feed to chum the turkeys in. I guess I forgot to them them since we are in a CWD area they needed to put a sign up saying feed is for turkeys only. Deer not allowed. Lol
