Dugout
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Familytradition
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My niece is 9, but needs to shoot more. Plus I do not want to step on her dad's toes. I worked with my son this year, but he is not ready either. My "youth" is a close friend of mine who has never shot a deer. He's in his thirties, so I can't help yet. If he and Grandpa kill a deer, my season will be complete without me pulling the trigger.
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My youngest has said she is interested, but has not acted on it - at least not for the actual youth hunt. She will go with me come gun season I am sure. Gonna be warm by the sounds of it as well. Tough on the kids when it's so warm and it tends to reduce the deer movement as well.
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A few post dozer and winter wheat pictures.
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My first one on camera. I believe I saw one in the flesh a few years ago, but not entirely sure if that was what I saw.
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Getting frisky.
Look I'm a big buck.
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Double throat patch.
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These 5 gals ate 2 acres of brassicas in a few nights. I'm glad the winter wheat is coming in well.
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Original picture of the bobcat. I hope Indiana opens the season soon.
Great pictures! I love dozed out of the woods plots and I plan on adding a few more this winter. Hard to keep enough food in front of them if you have a high deer density...
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With only 33 acres, keeping food in front of them during hunting season and the winter will be a chore. I plan on having very few summer plots besides the clover in the walnut grove.
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I am at home this weekend do to my son's soccer and parties, but I'm told that I have chestnuts dropping and we have many deer on camera using the farm.
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We fed corn most of the year. Corn had no draw value in the summer in Central Indiana, but these deer hammer it as long as we offer it. Pulled it at the end of September. We still haven't hunted at the Dugout this year. No shooters on camera, so no reason to stink it up. That 9 with the tree in his rack, I believe to be 2.5. I think the 8 is 3.5. Both will get a pass from me. Bigger bucks in the area, but not on our place yet this year. Last year in late October we started to get many older bucks using it. I have the twin to the one I shot last year at the top of my list or a true giant that is on our lease. My dad did hunt twice at our lease this weekend and saw lots of deer. I am stuck at home until next Sunday because of my son's soccer.
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I have 9 chestnuts off of the tree. All singles in the husk. They are falling in the husk and have two little aborted nuts on either side of the mature nut. I'm assuming because of poor pollination; who knows where the closest pollinator would be. Much smaller than most chestnuts that I have seen. I am pretty excited to set these 9. Hopefully I will get more and be able to share a few.
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It is always fun getting pictures of the velvet coming off. This deer is a real homebody. I hope he lives or my Grandfather kills him.
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9 more chestnuts from our tree. Makes a crop of 18. I start to hunt Friday. Cooler temperatures are coming and I'm just tired of waiting. No big boys at the Dugout yet, so I'll hit the lease.
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