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    Tips on buying or leasing hunting land

    Note: I've done the same stuff I listed above before I ever owned land. The idea is to find someone who owns land, likes to hunt some, but doesn't have time to hunt a ton, and definitely doesn't have time to do food plots, deal with stands or tree plantings...etc. You turn it into a situation...
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    Tips on buying or leasing hunting land

    ok, so I'll share what has been successful for me over the years.... The bottom line of my method assumes that everyone is out for themselves. Hunters who are seeking permission are always out for themselves first and the landowner second. Landowners who are being asked are always in it for...
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    Live from the stand 2016!

    Good luck to everyone this weekend! Will have a few stands full of kids tomorrow AM as my son and one or two of his friends open youth rifle season on our place. This will be our first Opening Day on our new property!! Hopefully there will be MANY more to come!! I'll probably climb up in a...
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    Sawtooth Oak Stratification?

    Accidentally left a baggie of them in peat in the garage last fall when I was packing them up for stratification. They sat for a little over a week in the warm moist peat before I realized I had left them out.... Almost every single acorn had sprouted and had a radicle. Some of them had 2-3"...
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    why no tubular production?

    My radishes (groundhog was the brand) had tubers the size of my arm. On of my sons favorite pasttimes was to pull some and shoot them with the .22 and watch them explode :D
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    Son's School Ag Project

    I agree 1000%.... Much more being learned on this project than the actual subject matter.... irrigation, programming (sprinkler timer), water management, erosion, and of course basic farming skills like running a tiller, pulling a hoe/rake...etc.
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    Son's School Ag Project

    We are located in Ray City, GA, which is fairly extreme south ga, about 30 miles from the Florida line. Understanding all locations are different, your soil may not be deficient in minerals found in granite, you may need silica, sodium, magnesium, potassium...etc. The logical reason granite...
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    Son's School Ag Project

    So, in the organic, re-mineralizing world people are using 'rock dust' which is nothing more than finely ground granite. The stuff runs about $40 for a 40lb bag. At that price it's not really a reality for most food plotters or gardeners. So I set off to find a cheaper source. Turns out the...
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    Son's School Ag Project

    Ok, so my step-son had to do a project for his Ag class this year. He wanted to do something with deer hunting, but we couldn't really figure anything good out. We just moved into our new place in Dec of this past year so the land is still VERY new to us. We put in a garden in the spring and...
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    Any creative ways to label our trees?

    In addition to labeling in the field I created a google map with all current and future tree locations with date planted info...etc. It's accessible from my phone so I can look at it while in the field. I've also marked and labeled trees that were native or planted by someone else. The map...
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    Overgrown Pasture

    Sorry to hijack the thread, but diesel as in diesel fuel? Could you elaborate on your mixture? We're looking at a 12 acre area to add an orchard (for commercial production) and it has scattered pines, sweetgums and a few cedar trees. I was planning on just have a dozier come in and push them...
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    Big spike

    Wonder if he is a steer? My stepdad took a similar buck back in the 90's, big body, very spindly rack, no mass, VERY weak for the area... turns out his nuts had been 'damaged' at some point in his life, they were pretty much non-existant except a nasty scar.
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    Passions beyond Deer & Family?

    During the spring and summers when I go missing on the deer/wildlife forums I'm offhsore fishing or coaching travel baseball!
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    Killing of sweet gum

    I use a spray bottle with about 50/50 gly/water in it. As soon as I cut the tree I spray the stump. I've also girdled some trees and sprayed them with the same. Results are pretty good with probably 80-90% mortality. I usually do my cutting in the fall, not sure if that matters or not.
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    Hellllo...

    2 different bucks
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    Shrubs for Cover

    The plum thickets around here get a LOT of browse and provide fantastic cover. You could probably get by not caging them as long as your density isn't too thick.
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    Overgrown Pasture

    Are you wanting to plant it in beans/corn to harvest or is this just for the deer/wildlife? If deer/wildlife is your goal then, like others have said old field is about as good as it gets. Sure, you can plant some plots in it, but I don't think I'd do the whole thing. We have lots of old...
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    Source for Pecans

    @wpdeer. We are bordered by pecan orchards to our east, probably a thousand acres or so. We really are in the heart of pecan country down here. There are probably 10k++ acres of pecans within 20 miles of me. I've hunted pecan orchards on several occasions and I'd say the deer, around here at...
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    Looking for QDMA forum members

    Late to the party... still can't believe qdma closed the forums.... not to start anything, but wth were they thinking? Glad I found you guys though!! :)
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    Direct Seeding

    Good idea on the pvc, I have used a piece of cardboard or plastic real estate type sign as a blocker before. I also have taped a funnel onto the end of my sprayer nozzle to help any over spray from happening.
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