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Personally I would have given him another year, but you are welcome to do what you want on your property.

Most states require a separate saltwater license if you are fishing in coastal areas. Some states also require you to buy a freshwater license with your saltwater license. If you only have to buy a saltwater license, you need to know where the boundary is and not fish freshwater without the...

I live in Mississippi but hunt in area 4 in Louisiana. The Louisiana map is pretty accurate for this area. You will see newborn fawns around here in August. I have seen spotted fawns into mid November. Here is the map for Mississippi and the dates align closely in the “boot” area.

Keep out the invasives, control erosion, and let the sunlight do its thing. You might be surprised what pops up once the sunlight hits the ground. It is going to come back thick. Let it go for a year and see what comes up naturally. Then you can reassess what it is filling in naturally and...

Maybe this is a regional thing, but why in the heck do you need to be 35 feet in the air to hunt deer?

The various oak species around the world are divided into two subgenera which are then further divided into several sections. Within the subgenera Quercus, the two main sections here in North America are section Quercus, what we call the white oaks, and section Lobatae that contains the red...

That looks like a white oak, Quercus alba.

I live in the south so no one is ever really able to hang a deer outside to age. Most soak the meat in an ice bath for a few days. Here is a video that compares soaking in ice verses just keeping it cool in an ice chest.

Do you have any idea on the size of the bird? There is nothing really there to judge its size so if the bird is close to the background trees it looks fairly large, but if it is closer to the camera it looks songbird size. To me, it looks like a mockingbird. Mockingbirds don't usually have the...

Over the past four years, the earliest I have seen them fall is October 14. I have seen a few acorns still hanging on the tree through mid November. I am encouraged to see that the deer are eating them.

I look at trees all the time when I am driving or just out and about. You really have to get up close and look at a tree to tell if it is a hybrid or something unusual. Compton oaks (live x overcup cross) are probably the most common hybrid around me, but the trees look just like a live oak...

Since sawtooths around me tend to drop in mid August, they are one of the first oaks to flower every year. The hard freeze in March 2023 after a very warm February 2023 nuked pretty much all of the sawtooth crop in south Mississippi and south Louisiana this year. The sawtooths I have looked at...

Definitely check again when they drop. They won't be dropping for a couple of more months, so the acorn might grow out of the cap. The photo below illustrates the difference in shell thickness between the apartment overcup acorns on the right and the swamp overcup acorns on the left. It is my...

That is a horrible way to go. I have heard old wives' tales about raccoons chewing their foot off to get out of traps. I guess this one could not reach his tail to chew it off.

Are you going to butcher all of them? That makes my knife dull just thinking about butchering that many.