Recent content by The Bruce

I'm taking part in Csp here in ky. Not sure if it's the same where you're from but here it's a great little program. Pays for a bunch of seedlings and other habitat work. No down side for me.

They always seem to run downhill. Couldn't get the tractor to start so what would have been an arduous drag to the end of the point turned into quite a chore all the way back to the truck. Worth every step Haha.

My middle son is on the board! It's taken a couple years but I finally got him on his first deer. I'm so thankful it all worked out for him. We got in the stand this past Friday (late ml for ky) a little later than normal. It was already light out. We settled into the tree. My stand was...

If you get a smaller stihl don't get one of those new fangled machines with the wheel to tighten the chain. I despise that design. Get the tried and true two nut system with a tightening screw in the middle. I hade a smaller stihl (i think a 150 or 170) that I liked because of its light...

I love this thread. Keep them coming. My biggest regret so far is having a farm I drive through to get into my in contract only to have an easement issue arise that put the purchase on hold. In the meantime the owner fixed the easement problem, bought 28 more acres and doubled the price on...

Do you water your trees? Or do they get enough water even with a plastic sheet over the roots. Sounds like a winner if you don't need to water.

Well I previously posted that I had never been blown at after smoking up. That unfortunately changed today. Haha. I had a couple doe come up the hill using the wind and cut my wind. They stopped. The lead doe didn't like it and blew. Can't fool them all! (I was wearing a thicker coat and...

I planted ten or more sawtooths for a little diversity. My nrcs guy told me they are invasive??? Anyone have an opinion on this?

I still wash in scent free soap and do the scentaway deodorant etc. I buy a new towel each season that isn't mixed in the wash and pay attention to mouth hygenine, I take every precaution possible because I've learned the hard way too many times that deer have the most amazing sense of smell.

I smoke things up in the outdoor closet at the beginning of November (my farm sets up strictly as a rut farm so I only hunt the first few weeks of November). Then I smoke up before each hunt. I'll wash them after the season and go again the next year.

Btw, I'm not claiming this works every time, but I'm being honest when I say my deer sightings have gone up tremendously and that I've never knowingly been busted due to scent. I've even watched a mature buck walk right across my trail in, stop and sniff the ground and keep right on going...

Get a bee smoker on Amazon. Get some wood chips. Hardwood. Anything works. I like the sweet smell of applewood personally instead of smelling like hickory smoke. Set up a little enclosure/tent/portable closet and smoke everything. (To get the smoker going I use a small propane torch. Get a...

Using a smoker to smoke my clothes and body before every hunt has literally revolutionized hunting for me. My farm is a very steep ridge in ky and while I would religiously wash and spray down etc, the deer would wind me regularly from 50 yards away and not even visible. The first sign of a...