Quapaw Meadows (My 160 Acres)...

[Tenured Student]

Dogdoc, I am looking forward to your updates- great looking tract with lots of memories thus far!

 

[Native Hunter]

Todd, the blooms (and even the leaves) of Florida Blue Lettuce and Chicory look amazingly alike. If you are certain that the plant isn't exactly like the chicory you planted, then I am convinced it is FBL. Honestly, even seeing that good picture, I'm not sure I could tell without seeing them together. Both plants are highly favored browse.

 

[Claybank Creek]

Awesome looking place. Enjoying the tour.

 

[dogdoc]

Dad and I built this blind in the summer of 2014, It was my first 6 X 4. Blind is so comfortable.



Decided to build another one this last spring.

 

[dogdoc]

I had this duck pond built shortly after purchasing the property. Got some help by the NRCS. I can draw it down if I want but I am dependent on mother nature to fill it.

 

[buckhunter10]

man everything looks great buddy! Are you allowed to rifle hunt in OK? Those blinds look like they are setup for such.

FYI reason I ask in Ohio you can only bow, shotgun, or like straight wall rifle 45-70, 444, etc.

 

[dogdoc]

man everything looks great buddy! Are you allowed to rifle hunt in OK? Those blinds look like they are setup for such.

FYI reason I ask in Ohio you can only bow, shotgun, or like straight wall rifle 45-70, 444, etc.

we have a 16 day rifle season starting the saturday before Thanksgiving. We also have a 9 day muzzle loader season starting the last saturday of October.

 

[Bowkl]

Place looks awesome

 

[Satguy]

Those are some really nice bucks you have harvested.

 

[Fish]

So glad to see the aerial of your property. Sure helps to analyze ones own property. The kid shots are priceless. Nice job, Doc.

Is that milo growing in one of your plots? If so, how are the deer utuilizing it?

 

[dogdoc]

So glad to see the aerial of your property. Sure helps to analyze ones own property. The kid shots are priceless. Nice job, Doc.

Is that milo growing in one of your plots? If so, how are the deer utuilizing it?

I don't currently have any milo planted but in one of the harvest pics there is some milo in the back ground. It is in a warm season mix made by a local co-op. The deer fees heavily on the sees heads once it matures. Poor man's corn.

 

[Brushpile]

http://www.ediblewildfood.com/chicory.aspx

 

[dogdoc]

http://www.ediblewildfood.com/chicory.aspx

That's what Native was saying also. Just can't tell the difference from the wild chicory and the wild lettuce with just the flower. They do like identical. I have chicory planted in this field but this plant doesn't look like the food plot chicory that I planted. Either way it sure it foraged heavily.

thanks
todd

 

[Brushpile]

That's what Native was saying also. Just can't tell the difference from the wild chicory and the wild lettuce with just the flower. They do like identical. I have chicory planted in this field but this plant doesn't look like the food plot chicory that I planted. Either way it sure it foraged heavily.

thanks
todd

The flower I posted grows along the edge of blacktop roads, and I've always called it chicory, but then I've always wondered if that's what people were planting in food plots?

 

[dogdoc]

After the deer season 2013 I entered my sanctuary and did some TSI. I consulted the advise from LC and read his hinge cutting to create habitat thread a couple of times.

Here are a few pics after hinging and cutting down a lot of tall spindly over crowded oaks and hickory trees:

 

[dogdoc]

 

[dogdoc]

Taken mid spring the same year of the TSI. Results are amazing. Look at the sunlight hitting the floor and all the growth that wasn't there last last year. Plus all the tender sprouts available to the deer.

 

[dogdoc]

and all the stump sprouts:

 

[Brushpile]

As I'm thinking, great job, my wife walked passed the computer and asked if that was our property? When I told her it wasn't, she said was relieved

and all the stump sprouts:

Nice job of hinge cutting. You should see regen on the forest floor now.

 

[wbpdeer]

DogDoc

I enjoy your land thread. Good job on the hinge cutting. I like the simple approach to your shooting houses - not sky scrapers but they don't need to be on your farm.

Shooting houses are a great resource for young hunters & us old one too.