Recent content by catscratch

Some of this summers plots...

This one didn't jump. Completely relaxed until the arrow hit. The arrow just didn't go to the pin. I went back the next day and had the kid stand where the deer was and double checked everything. There was a very small twig with a break in it a few feet out feom my stand. Might have glanced...

Nice progress!

That long tined buck is a heartbreaker! Everything was perfect and it was a chipshot. On release I was 100% calm/confident and expected to watch the fletching sink in exactly where I was aiming. Then in horror the arrow slid in high and left. I looked and looked, and looked and looked. When...

Lol, absolutely! 175 behind every single tree, just like Texas!

A few bucks from this year's bow season. The first one didn't make it through rifle season, but the rest have made appearances since rifle. Hopefully it's a good year for antler growth.

It's been a long while since I updated this thread. Probably time I start. Will probably take a while as I don't have a lot time to dedicate at once. Will be little chunks at a time. Will start with the last couple of deer I've shot. I didn't shoot a deer this year, but after the last...

Start posting! Always love the pics! I haven't posted on the other site since you were booted. I go over there once in a while for the jokes thread but that's about it.

We have very different growing conditions even though we're only 30 miles apart. From what I've seen of blackberries over here is that they rank right up there with Sericea, Locusts, and Johnson Grass for invasiveness. I try very hard to keep those sprigs from turning into thickets.

Neighbor north of me fought them for years! Aerial spraying, burning, spot spraying, etc... The thickets appear to be dead now. Not sure if they did something different or if they finally wore them down.

You've made some beautiful wood! I'd love to see a step by step thread. What tools do you use? How much of it is by hand? I used to be a CNC Machinist. Making a contour, outline, and cutouts would have been easy. Would be much more difficult when rasps and chisels are in hand.

Those look great!!! What's the purpose of using dried apples instead of fresh?

What tool and how?

Lots of options. Native early successional is easy and useful. Adding shrubs is great. Throwing in clovers, pollinators, and native legumes is easy and productive. Personally I don't think you can go wrong. Just decide something and do it.

What an awesome setup cutman! I see that we view profits the same way! I let some local kids cut wood this winter so that I wouldn't have to do it. To big for my taste, I don't like fooling with the big stuff anymore. Plus it was oak, and I don't really like to burn oak. They made good...