Recent content by BenAllgood

That's a tough one Steve. You have an awesome setup, and it's hard to mess with success like you've had. It seems like what you have now is a hunting setup where you can take advantage of a reliable bed to food transition. I don't know for certain, but it seems like you're in an area that's more...

First fawn on camera for my place. Judging by its size and previous doe pics, it should be less than a week old. That would put her being bred the first couple days of November.

Mine are 10.5 hours away. If there's a problem, I can't just run up and fix it. The main thing I've found is making sure the cameras are setup for changing conditions. Make sure there's not a lot of weeds that will grow up to trigger it. Facing them down or towards a backstop instead of across a...

Thanks. It's pretty cool to learn about what was here before. I know a geologist who sent me a good bit of info on those, and y'all are in complete agreement. He sent this link about the corral: https://www.uky.edu/KGS/fossils/fossil-month-Acrocyathus.php Also, he sent me a map of my property...

We have tons of fossils and rocks the kids have brought home. This was a cool piece of fossilized coral my daughter found in the food plot on the last trip. I tell my wife I bought her beachfront property, we were just a little late.

Looks like the 5 year old one antlered buck we call Sweet tooth may put on some antler growth on that bad side this year.

One thing I forgot to post was a problem tree I took down. This was a fairly large buckeye tree. I removed it for two reasons. It was producing a ton of shade in an area I wanted more browse production, and it was producing lots of babies that were coming up everywhere in the adjacent edge...

One of the trees I had killed by basal spraying became a home for a hive of bees.

This one will be fun to keep up with. The first 2 pictures are from last year. I estimated him to be 2.5 at that time. The second 2 pictures are from this year. Judging from his mass at the bases, he doesn't seem like he'll add much mass this year.

That should be a ton of fun and very different than South Carolina! Congratulations.

I opened a spot to see a travel corridor from a ladder stand in a cedar. This is facing north. There's an east-west major trail that is choked down by a ditch that cuts up from the draw below. To the west is bedding I created through edge feathering along the draw and old field transition line...

The basal spraying through an EQIP program to remove invasives and unwanted midstory trees seems to have been at least 90% successful. The trees sprayed are crumbling and falling apart. I found some persimmon saplings starting to come up in my old field areas. The farmer planted corn...

It was about 2 ft of drop at 100. I sighted at about 10 yards. I readjusted the scope for 100. I didn't hold over. I knew almost every shot was going to be at 100 or close to it, and I could aim a little higher if needed.

You mentioned a pond early on. You could dig out most of the area to the right (I'm guessing that's east), of the barn, and use the dirt to put a berm on the other side of the barn to block it and your access. Put a blind on the top of the berm and a kill plot on the other side.

How much acreage is that in ag that surrounds the barn? If you go much at all to that barn, deer around it are going to know it. Each time you go to it, you're pressuring it. It's basically like a barn in the middle of a food plot. Personally, if I had to park or spend much time at all at the...