New years resolution

[Chainsaw]

Happy New Year everyone. New Years Resolutions are for me a list of items that will be accomplished throughout the coming year. Some are very easy while others take a lot of time. One of the easy ones for this year is that monthly I am e-mailing links of favorite threads and posts from this forum to responsible hunting property owners that are likely interested in better deer hunting.

Occasionally I meet deer hunting landowners with similar property management goals as many of us. Most just don't realize the huge impact we can have on our hunting properties with habitat improvement projects. Armed with new ideas to improve their property for the deer and their deer hunting may help those people get started in improving their deer grounds. It may also may help to grow our forum membership with people who share our goals and it may help to have better deer properties in this area. And it will be a fun and easy New Years Resolution to get done.

What are some of your deer hunting related resolutions?

 

[catscratch]

Involve kids and friends more, and shoot older bucks (me, friends and kids shoot whatever floats their boat).

I like you idea of emailing links to locals. Cool way to encourage involvement without being pushy.

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[Paradise725]

I resolve to do a better job of balancing hunting with family.


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[dogghr]

Just to be more like me. Hard to improve on my perfection and modesty. I've done as you Chainsaw with sharing info with neighbors and friends. Hardheads just can't accept simplicity, or cheap. They think the world should be a complicated mess including any habitat work or deer management. And to convince some that age is one of the most important criteria of antler growth especially in high DSPM areas like mine, is like pounding sand. But I shall keep trying. Happy New Year to all.

 

[lakngolf]

If the old forum was still around you would find some resolutions (or wish list) from me for the last two or three years. I did not accomplish any of them. I do not plan to miss the mark so much on this forum. So, no resolutions!

 

[boot]

Hunt more, improve more

 

[Native Hunter]

Just to be more like me. Hard to improve on my perfection and modesty. I've done as you Chainsaw with sharing info with neighbors and friends. Hardheads just can't accept simplicity, or cheap. They think the world should be a complicated mess including any habitat work or deer management. And to convince some that age is one of the most important criteria of antler growth especially in high DSPM areas like mine, is like pounding sand. But I shall keep trying. Happy New Year to all.

We have the same resolution. One of mine was to be more like you too.

Here is my list:

Be more like dogghr

Get several fruit trees set in the yard on the small property my son bought adjoining my place. More for human consumption than deer, but I'm sure they will drop by for some too.

Finish working out deal for soybean farming on his place and get necessary gates installed.

Yearly maintenance in NWSGs

Yearly maintenance in tree planting

Start a new row of late dropping mixed fruit trees at a new spot I've selected for hunting purposes

Start a new spot or early dropping fruit trees in a different spot along the road for non hunting purposes

Do an intense spring yote cleaning

Maintenance in my ditch projects

Maintenance in my fence row projects

Top work several fruit trees - and this time brace the scions with native bamboo - lost too many successful grafts from a storm last year

I really need a good stand on the east side of my place, but not likely to get this done in 2017. I have cameras over there, and they show I'm missing hunting one of the best spots on my place. Perfect entry and exit 85% of the time.

If I get all this done it will be a miracle, but I can dream.

 

[Fish]

Too tired for a list.

But, i resolve to kill at least a buck i am happy to shoot on the property i have owned for 3 years. No more mr nice guy. No more waiting for the next one. If it's gun season, then i gun hunt. I want the satisfaction of killing a deer on that property.

 

[dogdoc]

Too tired for a list.

But, i resolve to kill at least a buck i am happy to shoot on the property i have owned for 3 years. No more mr nice guy. No more waiting for the next one. If it's gun season, then i gun hunt. I want the satisfaction of killing a deer on that property.

lol--when I started reading your post I was thinking to myself your resolution needs to be hunt with a gun when it's gun season and sure enough it was on there!

Happy New Years buddy
todd

 

[dogghr]

We have the same resolution. One of mine was to be more like you too.

Here is my list:

Be more like dogghr

Get several fruit trees set in the yard on the small property my son bought adjoining my place. More for human consumption than deer, but I'm sure they will drop by for some too.

Finish working out deal for soybean farming on his place and get necessary gates installed.

Yearly maintenance in NWSGs

Yearly maintenance in tree planting

Start a new row of late dropping mixed fruit trees at a new spot I've selected for hunting purposes

Start a new spot or early dropping fruit trees in a different spot along the road for non hunting purposes

Do an intense spring yote cleaning

Maintenance in my ditch projects

Maintenance in my fence row projects

Top work several fruit trees - and this time brace the scions with native bamboo - lost too many successful grafts from a storm last year

I really need a good stand on the east side of my place, but not likely to get this done in 2017. I have cameras over there, and they show I'm missing hunting one of the best spots on my place. Perfect entry and exit 85% of the time.

If I get all this done it will be a miracle, but I can dream.

Better rethink that first one. That list wore me out just reading it, but knowing you, prob get done. I think its funny that most on this forum secretly want to be the other guy and his property. I'm always impressed with the efforts of everyone on here. Inspires me.

 

[Rickey]

Make more time for my family. I work too many hours.

Stay diligent. Get debt free but remember not to hurt family time.

Plant more fruit trees but do a better job of protecting and taking care of them.

Clear some of the pines on North end of property so I can make a food plot and plant some sawtooth oaks.

 

[George]

I resolve to kill something.

G

 

[Bullwinkle]

Lose 25 lb to get ready for my Sept bow hunt for moose

Re-plant 5 dead apple trees

Finish my 3 acre oak regeneration deer fence

New water hole

Taking one more plot out of clover. Following Jeffs plan to only have fall attraction plots

Hunt the rednecks more. I like sitting in trees, twice I got burned with shooters under my Redneck and I watched helpless perched in a tree

Hunt the woods less and logging roads more. Got burned when shooters showed up on camera running logging roads and at the same time I was in the woods

 

[wbpdeer]

Habitat/Deer Hunting Goals for 2017

1. Get Sawtooth and Chinkapin Established on our farm in four locations (6 to 8 each spot)
2. Add some water holes for bow hunting Situations
3. Build a shooting house for Brooks (youngest grandson)
4. Use my Greenhouse to grow cuttings to plant next fall/winter
5. Get my Chinese Chestnuts into the remaining 40 counties in TN - am at 55 now (two year project & 2017 is 2nd year)
6. Improve my management of water collection (garage roof) and water trees on farm to reduce stress
7. Grow Tomatoes for my wife (Lakngulf is my coach)
8. Visit some Forum Friends that live in other states
9. Train a Lab pup to be a Shed Dog (already committed $$) and document the process
10. Enjoy Growing Seedlings and Share it with others (encourage users and answer questions)
11. Successfully Graft persimmon and pears (I think I am ready - I hope, I hope, I hope)
12. Do my best to not bite off more than I can chew (plant everything I order / grow)

Acknowledge Weakness
1. Got the Big Eye in the past - too many items acquired - too few planted
2. Not protecting plants / trees against competition
3. Probably best assassin of "elderberry" in eastern USA (killed it 100% of my attempts)

Will Hunt KY Lease and Ohio Lease in 2017 - Will Scout Hard and Prep Hard - Hunt Prime Time

Thanks for reading this post.

Wayne

 

[Gator]

lol--when I started reading your post I was thinking to myself your resolution needs to be hunt with a gun when it's gun season and sure enough it was on there!

Happy New Years buddy
todd

This one tends to get me every other year or so also


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[Chummer]

One goal this year other than to plant what I have ordered. I will be hinging a 20 acre sanctuary. I want the thickest cover within miles.

 

[Fish]

lol--when I started reading your post I was thinking to myself your resolution needs to be hunt with a gun when it's gun season and sure enough it was on there!

Happy New Years buddy
todd

Be sure and remind me next November!

 

[Chainsaw]

There are some great resolutions being made here. I can see deer hunting is really going to improve a lot for forum members. I like all the resolutions but three really stand out and I think it is a three way tie as to who plans to accomplish the most. It is between WBPdeer who is recently retired I think and has lots more time this year, Native Hunter who has a fast car to get him places at least and an MO that he gets a lot done, and Chummer a tireless habitat improver who has a full time job, a young family, takes care of two properties and who will be hinge cutting twenty acres. These properties are really getting fine tuned now!

And Bullwinkle's would read very different if we were not hunters. He is "going to hunt the rednecks more" and hunt logging roads more where all the shooters are hanging out.
And kudos to Paradise, Catscratch and Rickey; they've got their priorities straight.
Dogghr, lakngulf, Boot, Fish, Gator, Dog Doc and myself have more unmeasurable or even not mentioned resolutions and George well he is just going to keep hunting even if he doesn't shoot anything.
We are quite a happy and different (not strange just different) bunch!

 

[j-bird]

I had commented on my land tour about how I had cut corners in my daughters journey to her first deer - so with that in mind my New Years resolution is to take the time and truly TEACH my daughter how to hunt. We will start with looking at how and why deer move the way they do. Look into what deer eat and then start with some small game hunting to work on spotting movement and making a clean shot. I didn't do this earlier and I sold us both short. This next year is about a proper hunting education.

 

[Chainsaw]

J-bird you have the best resolution of all of us. Teaching your daughter and seeing everything thru her eyes will be an unforgettable experience for both of you for sure. As a kid we used to still hunt for rabbits late in the season. They acted just like deer--sneaking out ahead of you. It was a blast.
My father and his hunting buddies used to take all of us kids out crow shooting every Saturday in the winter. The crows would come for miles away, thousands and thousands of them to a single area to roost. The memories still come often and they still make me smile.