"Whitetail Hollow" - 90 Acres NE Oklahoma.

On a roll...finished 3 jobs in 2 long days. Wife said she saw a Jake in our yard today too!!! Next job is a bit of a pull...Highway Patrolman needs some ground cleared up past Grove which is over an hour away...I dislike long pulls...
 
Rain, rain, rain...have a little time because too wet to work. Went across the road to look at the plots and pull cards. These first 2 plots are just doze it out and throw seed down and track it in...no other equipment...

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This is our biggest clover plot from a stand...I have sprayed this plot with clethodim twice so far this spring, put 2000 lbs of pelletized lime and 400 lbs of 8-24-24 fertilizer on it...it is doing quite well right now.

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The Tom is still kicking...

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The mommas are coming right along...

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As are the boys...this one I can identify due to his front lower leg he broke last fall.

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This was him in the fall...

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Some of the others coming on...

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Hopefully fall of 2021 is better to me than fall of 2020 was...had the perfect buck to hunt but he just never came by while I was on stand during shooting light...

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He made it through season so looking forward to what he looks like this year...


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Rain, rain, rain...have a little time because too wet to work. Went across the road to look at the plots and pull cards. These first 2 plots are just doze it out and throw seed down and track it in...no other equipment...

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This is our biggest clover plot from a stand...I have sprayed this plot with clethodim twice so far this spring, put 2000 lbs of pelletized lime and 400 lbs of 8-24-24 fertilizer on it...it is doing quite well right now.

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The Tom is still kicking...

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The mommas are coming right along...

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As are the boys...this one I can identify due to his front lower leg he broke last fall.

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This was him in the fall...

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Some of the others coming on...

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Hopefully fall of 2021 is better to me than fall of 2020 was...had the perfect buck to hunt but he just never came by while I was on stand during shooting light...

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He made it through season so looking forward to what he looks like this year...


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He’s a beauty Johnny. Good luck with him this fall.
 
His left antler looks lower than the right (velvet pic). Suppose he will show any non-typical on that side due to the broken leg? I've witnessed this with a couple of bucks that were bumped on the highway at our place. Nothing crazy cool like drop-tines or anything like that, just a goofy side that doesn't match the other side quite right. I forget; do you feel protein during antler and milk season or do you keep it straight corn? Supplement with mineral?

How long before you bulldoze your place down, survey it out into 10 acre parcels, sell, then retire on 1000acres up in North Dakota?
 
His left antler looks lower than the right (velvet pic). Suppose he will show any non-typical on that side due to the broken leg? I've witnessed this with a couple of bucks that were bumped on the highway at our place. Nothing crazy cool like drop-tines or anything like that, just a goofy side that doesn't match the other side quite right. I forget; do you feel protein during antler and milk season or do you keep it straight corn? Supplement with mineral?

How long before you bulldoze your place down, survey it out into 10 acre parcels, sell, then retire on 1000acres up in North Dakota?

I only put out trace mineral blocks and feed just a hint of corn from timed feeders...just enough to keep them swinging through here..I couldn’t afford to be on an actual feeding program other than a plot or 2.

No plans to sell even though SD is beautiful especially in the hot months we couldn’t afford comparable land up there. If we were to move there the only comparable type land seems to either be on the reservations or around the black hills. Reservation land never sells and Black Hills land is absolute gold!

Besides, my old Tom turkey decided to start setting up shop in the backyard since I took him off the list...

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I only put out trace mineral blocks and feed just a hint of corn from timed feeders...just enough to keep them swinging through here..I couldn’t afford to be on an actual feeding program other than a plot or 2.

No plans to sell even though SD is beautiful especially in the hot months we couldn’t afford comparable land up there. If we were to move there the only comparable type land seems to either be on the reservations or around the black hills. Reservation land never sells and Black Hills land is absolute gold!

Besides, my old Tom turkey decided to start setting up shop in the backyard since I took him off the list...

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You could always put him on notice and revise the list?
 
I read on the state site that turkeys are way down this year. Not sure why, it's been wet for a few years.

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I read on the state site that turkeys are way down this year. Not sure why, it's been wet for a few years.

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Yes...I read the same. My take on it is too many nest predators. I have found several demolished nest over the past couple of years...
 
I have an older couple I Brushhog for on a small property in a creek bottom that have a couple of small fields. They have owned the property approximately 5 years and before they bought it In the main field was an area of dirt hills that was approximately 150’ long and 30’ wide x 10’ tall that had grown up in multi flora rose, sycamore, callery pear, and various other undesirables that was next to a large depression the county had dug in the field to get material for projects with the intention of it being a pond...unfortunately the pond never held water so was just a depression. Also the fields all had several large stumps from walnut trees the previous owner sold to a sawmill just before they purchased. I always had to Brushhog around the stumps and the dirt hills and also Brushhog the depression. The gent I have been working for wanted me to push up as many stumps as I could, push up all the trees in the dirt piles, and then use the soil and cover all of it in the old pond and then he wanted me to cross the county road and grade an old road bed down the side of the mountain approximately 250 yards worth...in 8 hours...told me not to go beyond that amount of time.

A lot of the job was refreshing because the dirt pushed easily and laid out well...The big sycamore I ended up pulling down but the rest of the trees pushed right out and the worst part was digging the big walnut stumps out but I got them...

Apologies for poor pictures but I didn’t take any pics of the job start or the stumps I pushed out or the road I had to grade out but I got a few images of the dirt moving from a GoPro and the finished area where the dirt hills used to be from my truck window as I left...

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There is still a lot of the “pond” left and next year around tax time he wants me to come again and move more trees, stumps, and material into the hole...but only 8 hours worth! Lol


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Dozer work looks great as always. Do you still just have the one tom hanging around? Maybe you’ll get a decent hatch this year.
Thank you on the dozer comment...the man I worked for on that deal was really tickled about it. I went across the road earlier today and saw him running around...I ended up with 3 hens it looks like.

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A very cool day in May before a thunderstorm so I decided to do something I have wanted to do for about 3 years. My wife and I put this stand up in August 2014 a few months after we bought our place and is the one I always call the stand down in the oaks...

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The tree had grown and the stand has stood there this entire time and has gotten a very noticeable pitch forward that makes you be tilted forward so the comfort of and steadiness of the stand had declined. I should have done it a lot sooner but I grabbed the ladder and threw it in my little truck and headed over. I was able to release the strap from the ladder and then I was able to level the stand up correctly and retighten it and then I added another brand new strap.

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It has been a good stand and has produced most of the top bucks off our place since then.

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I just took a few random shots around the property after that...Here is the north plot I am trying to get go back wild and thick since it is too close to the back of the property and is one of those learning mistakes...the way it is situated I have to travel completely through the property to get to it while spooking game and it stops deer at the back of the place instead of having them travel all the way through to the front area to feed where I can intercept before dark. I do still hunt it a bit but it is extremely difficult in the morning to get to...You can see the clover still all through it but it is starting to get more and more wild. I have done absolutely nothing with this plot for 5 years.

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The few sawtooths back there got frost damage but this one is in nature’s cage...

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This is an area I push a line of trees out in the middle of the woods last spring...note the growth in the cleared area as opposed to both sides of it...

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This is the plot I pushed out with the dozer last fall and didn’t do anything but spread seed and walk away...the mix I used has a lot of chicory in it.

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The other little strip plot I made has a bunch of wheat and red and white clover in it now...

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It’s hard to believe our south plot is now 8 years old...it started from really humble beginnings and has been expanded on twice.

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You can see those 2 stumps in this photo I took today...

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And the boys are starting to branch a little...

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