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[Cedar Ridge]

Hello Everyone, My name is Jeff, I am a 61yo retired firefighter, and a born-again Christian. I manage about 300 acres in South Central Kentucky. While I am new to this forum I have been hunting and trying to practice QDM for going on 30 years in the South. I have primarily used the disc, spread and cover methods and had good success, but I just recently finally purchased a no-till drill and will be trying it out this spring. I have been involved with the Chestnut reintroduction in my area for 20 years now and also trying to plant heirloom varieties of fruit and nut trees on the property. I am no expert, but have a lot of trial and error experience, so I am hoping you guys can help cut down on some of that with the no-till drill..... I will be asking soon..

Welcome to the site. I’m very interested to see how the Saya works out for you. I, too, am in South Central KY and assume that you and I would have similar soils. I’ve been kicking around the idea of getting one of these but haven’t come to grips giving up my disk just yet. Please keep us posted.

 

[Finnbear]

So i wont share too mutch personal info, i hope you dont mind. My friends call me karhumies (bear man) on account of my frame and facial hair, a quick conversion puts me at 6.6 and 340lb. As you might have guessed iam from Finnland where we owe many thanks for sending over those white tail deer in the 1900s! they thrived here. I live in a place where the sun either never sets or never rises depending on the season and winters dip so low your tinkle turns to snow before it hits the ground. I have the philosophy to use every part of the animal including intestines, bones, hides and hoofs. English is a third language so if my writings seem a bit odd keep that in mind

 

[9x56MS]

So i wont share too mutch personal info, i hope you dont mind. My friends call me karhumies (bear man) on account of my frame and facial hair, a quick conversion puts me at 6.6 and 340lb. As you might have guessed iam from Finnland where we owe many thanks for sending over those white tail deer in the 1900s! they thrived here. I live in a place where the sun either never sets or never rises depending on the season and winters dip so low your tinkle turns to snow before it hits the ground. I have the philosophy to use every part of the animal including intestines, bones, hides and hoofs. English is a third language so if my writings seem a bit odd keep that in mind

You sound like a fellow hunter to me. Welcome to the forum.

 

[Mennoniteman]

So i wont share too mutch personal info, i hope you dont mind. My friends call me karhumies (bear man) on account of my frame and facial hair, a quick conversion puts me at 6.6 and 340lb. As you might have guessed iam from Finnland where we owe many thanks for sending over those white tail deer in the 1900s! they thrived here. I live in a place where the sun either never sets or never rises depending on the season and winters dip so low your tinkle turns to snow before it hits the ground. I have the philosophy to use every part of the animal including intestines, bones, hides and hoofs. English is a third language so if my writings seem a bit odd keep that in mind

Welcome, I'd love to see some pictures from Finnland. You're welcome for the whitetailed deer, and thanks for the reindeer you sent to North America, of course we call them caribou.

 

[Finnbear]

Welcome, I'd love to see some pictures from Finnland. You're welcome for the whitetailed deer, and thanks for the reindeer you sent to North America, of course we call them caribou.

The area i live has about every type of terrain in the country, its right in the borderzone where forests turn to barren swamps as far as the eye can see. This also makes hunting extremely dynamic as i may start my hunt in dense spruce forest only to end up taking a 300 meter shot in the swamps and having to haul my catch trough knee deep peat bogs. Also alot of farmland wich is where i spend my early season and early summer thinning out brown hair and racoondogs for the farmers.

 

[9x56MS]

The area i live has about every type of terrain in the country, its right in the borderzone where forests turn to barren swamps as far as the eye can see. This also makes hunting extremely dynamic as i may start my hunt in dense spruce forest only to end up taking a 300 meter shot in the swamps and having to haul my catch trough knee deep peat bogs. Also alot of farmland wich is where i spend my early season and early summer thinning out brown hair and racoondogs for the farmers.
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Just beautiful country. Looks like a hunters paradise.

 

[Finnbear]

Just beautiful country. Looks like a hunters paradise.

the closest analog would be if you compressed north america minus the hot regions. We have a massive difference in geography across the country, from deer and boar invested plains and farmland with patchy woodland in uusima, to rocky coastlines and grainfields as far as the eye can see in vasaa to dense ancient forest (korpi we call it) where the sun barely reaches the forest floor in karjala, to a maze of lakes and rivers seperated by dense evergreen in pirkanmaa and endless peat swamp with trees 100 years old the size of a sapling followed by barren mountains as you travel up lappi. I live right in the middle

 

[HuntingVirginia]

Hello, my name is John and I am a new hunter. I am currently living in Charlottesville, Virginia. I have a love for the woods and outdoors and hope to meet some new buddies to share that same passion with!

 

[yoderjac]

Hello, my name is John and I am a new hunter. I am currently living in Charlottesville, Virginia. I have a love for the woods and outdoors and hope to meet some new buddies to share that same passion with!

Welcome to the neighborhood! I plan to retire about20 minutes out of Cville.