My property tour

Tomorrow is our opening day of archery but I’ll be working. I’ve been swamped at work the last few weeks, so today I ran to our place quick and swapped out some straps on our stands.

I broadcasted winter rye and winter wheat over some plots. I also checked out some crabapple trees I planted this past Spring. I was pleasantly surprised to see so many on the tree it’s first year.
 

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Jason, your place is looking great! Keep up the good work!


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Thanks Chad! I hope you guys have some nice deer on camera this year.

We had a great year for apples so I could only imagine what your orchard looked like.
 
Thanks Chad! I hope you guys have some nice deer on camera this year.

We had a great year for apples so I could only imagine what your orchard looked like.

Still waiting for a good one to show up. Hopefully soon. We cut our apple trees back two winters ago so they are not producing yet.

I see you planted Winfred this year. It’s one of my favorite brassicas if you can plant enough of it to get ahead of the deer. On top of being attractive i thought it held up well after heavy frost.

Your young trees are looking great too.

Looks like you have a good mature buck! Good luck chasing him!


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Pa finished up its early inline doe season today. Last Saturday my father and a friend each missed one. I had my daughter with me but unfortunately we didn’t see any. 5E8F6E44-DD9D-4B5A-AD16-5DB06AEF30F8.jpeg6BD4252A-C2E0-469B-AF28-1C92A654E0A9.jpeg

Thursday evening my father sat over our 5 acre food plot and saw a few young buck and 3 doe. He filled his first tag of the year. 6C0CBE3F-BAEF-466D-A21C-E62560ADBD01.jpeg

And this evening he went back to the 5 acre field since we probably won’t be able to hunt for the rest of the archery season. He saw 7 buck, 6 were 1 1/2 year olds and 1 was a mature 7 point. He ended up filling his second doe tag not long before dark when 3 more doe came into the clover portion of the field. DCEA028A-BD31-4F0B-B9FE-D2AF4FE5C6CE.jpeg

While he was watching the 7 buck and the 4 doe. This really nice 10 point was bumping does around in a clover field a few hundred yards down the hill. 194DB136-F397-42F6-B021-94E94D74944E.jpeg3898F14B-B613-4A46-9CD4-C34FA2F353F5.jpeg
 
My cousin hit this buck tonight, twice. The first shot deflected off a branch and hit him way back, the arrow punched through both sides but stayed in him. The deer then ran forty yards, twenty yards from one side of him to twenty on the opposite side and stopped. He hit him again through a small opening between some trees, a little further bag then desired but that was all that was presented to him. He followed the blood trail 1 1/2 hrs after the shot, against my wishes, for 150 yards and thought he could here some thrashing ahead. We will be going back in the morning before work to look. I think he stands a good chance if he didn’t pressure him to much. The temperature is 54 degrees now and will drop to 48. 46838E8D-E8F6-4742-BB85-9AC21D62C714.jpeg1EB6D8A9-E11B-48FD-91E2-A049FCC8D3D1.jpeg 638D123C-00F9-4AF7-B83B-0CB58F68BE3C.jpeg
 
Good luck on the recovery. Always makes for a rough night…..

We found him 75 yards downhill from where they heard him last night. The coyotes got into him a little but nothing to bad. The blood for the last 25-50 yards was slight liquid and not dried, making me think he lasted well into the morning and potentially pushed himself down the hill away from a coyote. 2824893A-4B7B-4CD9-89B6-E7C1084851D7.jpeg
 
We found him 75 yards downhill from where they heard him last night. The coyotes got into him a little but nothing to bad. The blood for the last 25-50 yards was slight liquid and not dried, making me think he lasted well into the morning and potentially pushed himself down the hill away from a coyote. View attachment 22885
We all like a happy ending! Congratulations to him for a nice buck.
 
I just picked up our farm tractor so it doesn’t sit out all winter and grabbed a load of firewood. Since I was there I checked out the plots since I haven’t seen them in over a month. They are pretty much mowed down. 80002E02-E008-41D8-9E96-3C3F0D99B16A.jpeg BBADA10D-6A6B-44A7-8DAF-CA4A0A1AA4C0.jpeg
One interesting find, some AWP are still in the field. I have never seen them make it past a deer this late into the season. EC34D315-9E9B-45D1-A3FA-82596C1C0DAD.jpeg
And my one acre of clover throw and mow looks drastically different, just since my father shot two doe out of the field mid October. D9E8461D-22F9-4175-A800-2D855C1F19E3.jpeg
All seed heads are gone from the rye and WW. The majority of the stalks are laying over or gone. And wherever the deer don’t have WR or WW in the way the clover and chicory browsed heavy.
 
Wow! That is buzzed off, but there's also lots left for the pickers. Very cool man.

They ate your rye heads too? I believe that. Two days ago, I wouldn't have, but I do now. I'll throw up a pic in the regen thread.
 
I haven’t been able to hunt much this year, which seems to be the common theme the last few years. But, lack of pressure on our place seems to be the key to shooting mature deer.

Our state rifle season opened up this past Saturday and we had 5 people hunting in 4 stands, one being a father and son. The youth hunter chose to sit overlooking our 5 acre food plot. He shot a spike there last year and enjoys looking over a field more then being in the woods. He was fortunate enough to have a 4 pointer come out for a bite to eat around 8 am.01E1E805-BCE1-4C68-AAEA-F9C171628854.jpeg

I only had until 10:30 am to be in the woods. I had a wedding to attend out of town for my wife’s Aunt.

I sit in the far back of our property, where no one goes all year. I take a climber in for the rut and may only hunt this 30 acre area 2-4 times a year. For rifle season I bump the stand down to the corner of our property, within this 30 acre area, looking up a ridge leading to thick scrub oak and down to my left where the ridge runs perpendicular to the ridge in front of me. I have shot a buck each of the last 5 years out of this area, 4 during rifle season and 1 during bow season. At 10:15 I saw a coyote out in front of me and figured I was getting down anyway so why not take a crack at it. I cranked my scope up to 9 and tried getting on him. But it was to no avail, he wasn’t running the ridge left to right but more of a 45 degree again away from me. As I was still following the coyote in my scope I hear a crack behind me and turned to see 3 doe trotting at a pretty good pace. I figured my wife would kill me if I was late because i shot a doe. So I didn’t even raise my rifle, until I saw a 4th body coming at 60 yards and realized it wasn’t a doe. I could tell he was big immediately and didn’t really care if I had him on camera before or what he actually was. I picked an opening and moved my rifle with him trotting and pulled the trigger, only to lead him to much while my scope was still on 9 power. I can picture the cross hairs right in front of his chest when I pulled the trigger. He kind of dropped/crouched down, jumped up and ran right at me for 20 yards or so. I chambered another round and as he was running out quartering away I picked another opening he would cross and as soon as he entered it I pulled the trigger. He ran 40 yards and piled up. I was late getting home and we were late getting to the wedding, but my wife understood. D39E1613-C5B1-4D14-A33D-A3D2FD67BC6C.jpeg F3B3F7C2-061E-4FCF-80DE-0305FF31D1A5.jpeg
He weighed in at 205 live weight. We never had him on camera, just like every buck I’ve killed in this area for the last 5 years.

Just before dark I got a text that my friend shot his first ever buck in 18 years of hunting. It was barely legal for our state 3 point on a side antler restriction. But we told him before the start of the day he was free to shoot any legal buck. A50ED06E-E3E5-4A87-893B-424219427C48.jpeg
 
Our trapper set this past Thursday. He caught his first coyote of the year this morning. 0E1DC104-6698-4C51-8D5B-D436BF5950C0.jpeg
This nice bobcat made his way through last night. I’m hoping he ends up in a trap. The only one ever caught on our place was the day after the season went out so it was released.

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number 2-in the winter wheat
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3rd female in as many days.

Number 4.
 

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Up to 7 coyotes and 3 raccoons. And we still had coyote pictures on trail cameras last night.
 

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Up to 9 coyotes. How many coyotes could be on our propery?
 

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The trapper is pulling his traps today. He finished with 16 coyotes.

We also put out some minerals to see what deer made it through hunting season. The 10 pointer we were seeing throughout most of the year on camera made it. A few young 8’a also made it through. And a lot of spike and 4 pointers.

We only killed one doe this year because of a few misses and lack of hunting time. A button buck and 5 buck. So I’m expecting our food plots to be put under a lot of pressure next year.
 

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