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Mennoniteman
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BUddy B
New Member
Hello, my name is Buddy Barcus, I live in central KY and I am brand new to this forum. I am married to a beautiful school teacher with 2 amazing kids. I recently purchased an 85acre farm in KY and then got active for a tour to Iraq with the KY National Guard. While I am gone, I am going to try to learn as much as possible about planting, growing and developing my farm for myself and my kids. I look forward to learning as much as I can about QDMA and giving back as much as I can.
Nice to Meet Ya'll!!
Thanks
Buddy Barcus
Nice to Meet Ya'll!!
Thanks
Buddy Barcus
Mennoniteman
Well-Known Member
Welcome Buddy. Kentucky is a great place. Praying for your safety in Iraq.
Butcher
New Member
Hi my name is John and I am all about the outdoors. I live in upstate New York with my wife and son, our dog, cat, chickens and a mess of wildlife. We moved in a year ago and I am still learning what all is going on out in my 10 acres of woods. I do not own much equipment but I still thoroughly enjoy wildlife habitat projects like small food plots, trail blazing, etc. I am mostly into traditional bow hunting but gun hunting is a tradition I love. I stumbled on some info while researching and liked what I was reading. I hope to participate and gain lots of info. Thanks
rusty1034
Active Member
Welcome John. The toughest time for deer in Northern NY is Dec - April. Cutting mature trees to allow regrowth, and planting winter rye and winter wheat are perhaps the most beneficial and immediate changes you can make to benefit the deer in this latitude.
Hit long term, consider planting pine trees for cover to help them making it through the long, cold winters.
Rusty
Butcher
New Member
I have already started clearing an area I want to build a log cabin/shoot house. Im fairly new to habitat improvements and I was watching a lot of youtube videos for info. I quickly realized some limitations I had and some bogus information that was being put out there. I walked the property before we bought it and found about 30 different deer in a 15 minute walk and I knew I was buying the land. There are mostly white pines covering my property with ash thats being devastated by the emerald ash borer, a grove of black walnuts, and a strip of large red oaks. I was relocating white spruce trees I find to the edges of bedding areas I found to add some windbreak to the leggy growth of white pines while having the extra benefits of feeding/hiding grouse and being thicker for a visual barrier. I left a spot I found with a crazy rats nest of blow downs because the deer are almost always in there and I have no need to go in.
Mennoniteman
Well-Known Member
It sounds like great deer habitat already, and a small food plot would only make it better. Welcome to the forum!
Randy Lahey
New Member
Im randy, I hunt everyday . shoot straight green heads, whitetail deer. Gobblers,
Hi. I would like to thank the admins for letting me join. My name is Elbert. I've been hunting and fishing for just about all of my life, and I am one of two regional directors for Region 2 of the Michigan Trapper and Predator Callers Association. I am a member of a few different forums and I recognize some of ya'll's handles from the Habitat Talk forums, where I am a newbie there also. My wife and I have a small place in central part of Lower Michigan where we live on a pretty good sized man made lake and we have part of the family estate in east central Mississippi. I've recently been bitten by the habitat bug and I look forward to reading, learning, and participating here.
Deer Stuffer
New Member
Hello everyone,
I have visited this forum for a few years now including back when it was still qdma forum. I have tried several times last three years or so to sign up but have always ran into problems and never could. Got a new phone yesterday and thought I would give it another try and pow and behold it was as easy as 123.
Anyway, my name is Dustin and I live in Coweta, Oklahoma. I hunt different big game animals but sure like whitetail. I have a family and am a taxidermist by trade.
I have visited this forum for a few years now including back when it was still qdma forum. I have tried several times last three years or so to sign up but have always ran into problems and never could. Got a new phone yesterday and thought I would give it another try and pow and behold it was as easy as 123.
Anyway, my name is Dustin and I live in Coweta, Oklahoma. I hunt different big game animals but sure like whitetail. I have a family and am a taxidermist by trade.
