Pa Hillbilly Farming

[Double L]

This is my big feild. You can only see about a 1/3 of it because of the trees. I took this yesterday after I took my tractor back to cabin. Wife and I made a little trip around. the little white target in the left side of field is 600 yards.

 

[Double L]

the first pic is from the lower part of the new big field. if you look above the pond near the top of mountain you can see the small opening in the tree from where I cut the shooting lane from. next 5 photos are of some of the small plots and the last one is of what Im trying to get the roads to look like. I just cleared those and started mowing them. All the other/new roads need sprayed and planted with something shade tolerant.

 

[Double L]

sorry for the double post of pictures. apparently I was trigger happy.

 

[Double L]

It sounds like an outstanding property with great potential. Having large properties around you with like minded neighbors is a huge bonus. Add my name to the signup sheet for rifle shooting instruction please that is if you ever offer any. We don't shoot long shots here but it would be nice to extend our personal shooting distance limits someday.

It will be interesting to see how you make out with encouraging deer to bed in certain spots when the property offers so many good bedding spots already. I and many others on the forum are also working on developing blue ribbon bedding areas on our individual properties as well.

Well if you or anyone else here ever want to come for a day or two I'll gladly let you stay at the cabin. You can. Bring your own gun and I'll help you stretch out your shooting or you can shoot one of mine. I am always looking for a reason to send some lead down range. I never shot rifles except for when I failed at bow season. I thought shooting a rifle was about as much fun as watching paint dry till I tried long range. Now between reloading and just plain shooting it is another hobbie that becomes addicting. I look at shooting 1000 plus yards comfortably lets me shoot at a deer at 600 with confidents of making a good kill. Plus that's the most fun I have had for keeping doe count in check. Ground hogs are almost on endangered species list around here. Lol

 

[Chainsaw]

Thanks Double L, I'll take you up on that sometime. I'd love to learn to increase my shooting range.

 

[Merle Hawggard]

Absolutely beautiful place!

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[Double L]

Here is picture of new mower CID brush cutter. It took me a little bit to get the wiring figured out to match my machine. I just got to try it out last night. Cant wait to get my roads and fields trimmed back. Also I have alot of buckwheat that is coming mature in near future and will be replanting. question is would you mow it and spray it or just spray it and run the no-till drill over it as to let it stand to be ate by the critters? Just trying to keep the most use out of the feed. Any thoughts guys??

 

[Mennoniteman]

Here is picture of new mower CID brush cutter. It took me a little bit to get the wiring figured out to match my machine. I just got to try it out last night. Cant wait to get my roads and fields trimmed back. Also I have alot of buckwheat that is coming mature in near future and will be replanting. question is would you mow it and spray it or just spray it and run the no-till drill over it as to let it stand to be ate by the critters? Just trying to keep the most use out of the feed. Any thoughts guys??View attachment 8431

That brush cutter looks like the cats meow! Wish I had one (hint of jealousy here) I'd spray and drill, no need to mow with a notill planter.

 

[Double L]

Here is this past weekend project. The hut I built last fall but I just got the platform done. As always it was a bigger project than I figured time wise. Still needs finishing touches but it was enough to be able to leave it. My fall planting seems to be loving the weather we have been getting. 6" tall at two weeks in the ground. We tried Humistart which is Calcified seaweed that i applied to all the plots this month and it seems to be the ticket. Again we have been getting perfect weather but all our stuff seems to exploding out of the ground.The blend planted is winter peas,rye,timothy,rape,radish,red clover,pinnacle clover, and buckweat.

 

[farmhunter]

Great looking property - nice to hear you can work with your neighbor - that's the best case right there!
Would like to get a look at your Jeep! Good luck upcoming on some 4 year olds!!

 

[Double L]

Got to get some clearing done today Befor and after. Pics


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[Double L]

these are a few of my hunting plots with my fall mix that was planted 3 weeks ago I also have 3 acres of brassica that I planted that I got barely any germination. Do you think I have enough growing time left to reseed or should I wait and do rye /wheat later? It would be in part of my new plot which was virgin ground with a 4.3 ph. I did put 4K per acre of lime on in May.


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[Triple C]

Double L....Beautiful cabin and beautiful place! I'll be following along. Thx for sharing!

 

[Double L]

Well after passing numerous 2 1/2 & 3 1/2 bucks waiting on the nice 5 1/2 10 pt I’ve been hunting this year I decided to do some doe management today.


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[Double L]

My two buddies shot these here this year. 1 bow 1 gun.


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[HB_Hunter]

Just seeing this. Place looks awesome! Nice bucks!

You’ve got me thinking with those long range shot pictures. I love to shoot my bow, but just get the gun out for gun season. Long range looks like it would be fun. I also have a few spots in mind that I want to setup for gun season. I have a browning BAR 300 win mag, Remington model 700s in 30-06, .270, and 6mm.

I’d love to get a long range gun. What would you recommend?

 

[George]

Some good bucks and a nice looking spot.

G

 

[CTM1]

Wow, those are two great bucks and I am especially liking the hole in the horn buck.

Can we be "buddies" and I promise it will not be like "Cable Guy"

 

[Double L]

Just seeing this. Place looks awesome! Nice bucks!

You’ve got me thinking with those long range shot pictures. I love to shoot my bow, but just get the gun out for gun season. Long range looks like it would be fun. I also have a few spots in mind that I want to setup for gun season. I have a browning BAR 300 win mag, Remington model 700s in 30-06, .270, and 6mm.

I’d love to get a long range gun. What would you recommend?

You could use the rifles you all ready have. Optics/ammunition’s and practice is what you need. 300 win mag that you have would be a good start. If your looking for 1000 yards and less for hunting and can shot 1/2 “ groups at 100 yards that would be a way to get started. If you reload shells it makes this sport cheaper and also more fun. My personal hunting long range is 7 mm mag and I also have a 6.5 creedmore but I use it to hunt out to about 700 yd. I think 7 mm is the best all around hunting cartridge for cost and effectiveness there is. Optics is where you need to spend the money. I only caution you with my advise is that I’m a believer in anything worth doing is worth over doing LOL. I too am a bow hunter and never shoot rifles till I got into long range. Last night taking that doe still got my heart pounding and that wouldn’t have been the case 10 years ago. I’ll gladly give you enough advise to get going when your ready.


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[THE LLC]

Going back and reading some of this I find it interesting y'all spend as much time as you do there with it only 9 miles from home. I don't know what it is about me, but if I had a place that close, I'd probably never step foot on it. I guess for me, if it's too convenient I always have other things I should be doing on my mind. I have 100 acres here in a large metro Atlanta county I could be hunting every day but I've never hunted it and haven't even stepped on it in 3 years. My farm is 60 miles to the east and I spend MUCH more time there because when I'm there I can't be here doing the other stuff I should be doing. LOL.