Recreating a Deer Woods
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farmhunter
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Great to see more success stories in NY - good luck this fall - that night time action is normal for us too - still a lot of pressure around
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Chainsaw
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Thanks Guys, I'm pretty excited about nearing the start of real hunting. Hoping all four of our crew can score. Holding off a few more days until we are all together, just walking the perimeter road now and then to keep in shape. Here is a trail cam pic of a new planting in Dave's field. It is 1/10 of an acre and was planted around Sept. 15 BFO, peas and rye. I had hoped to have all of the planned three acres cleared and plant-able by now but it just wasn't possible, maybe next spring. One minute after the pic was taken, a young eight came in and the field turned into a sea of white tails.
Pictures on plots throughout the property are all showing a sharp decline in doe time spent in the fields this week. The young bucks are chasing the does out within minutes of their arrivals to the plots.
Pictures on plots throughout the property are all showing a sharp decline in doe time spent in the fields this week. The young bucks are chasing the does out within minutes of their arrivals to the plots.
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farmhunter
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Good luck!!- looking forward to seeing how your season develops -
Chainsaw
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Thanks Farmhunter, Good luck to you and your crew also. Now going back a few weeks ago we took some pics of two of the poplar stands that were cut to the ground in July-Sept. 2016. The regeneration has worked well and the deer have been eating the stand all summer despite the soybean field being very close by. Of course the soybeans did get their share of attention as well.
The property appears to be experiencing very fast repopulation growth and I think it is the result of the huge amount of extra browse growing in as a result of three years in a row of heavy logging coupled with good plots, ton's and ton's of apples and minimum hunting pressure.
The property appears to be experiencing very fast repopulation growth and I think it is the result of the huge amount of extra browse growing in as a result of three years in a row of heavy logging coupled with good plots, ton's and ton's of apples and minimum hunting pressure.
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Chainsaw
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Some of you will remember one of our older established food plots (Coyote Field) is 2,000 plus feet long. Here are some pics where a Mischantus Gigantus (MG) screen was planted about three years ago. It cut across Coyote Field food plot and thus made that end of the plot a little more private for the deer and separated them from the herds in the first section. That was our first MG planting and we are quite satisfied with the screen it provides. Second and third MG screens are planned to further break up the view of the long field.
Walking eighty yards or so thru the tree line at the end of the field of view brings one to the edge of Dave's field (Post #324) where the picture of the 1/10 acre food plot with the deer in it ends. Conversely if you are looking at the picture in post 324 and could see thru the 80 yards or so of brush and trees you would see the beginning of Coyote Field with the MG in the background.
Walking eighty yards or so thru the tree line at the end of the field of view brings one to the edge of Dave's field (Post #324) where the picture of the 1/10 acre food plot with the deer in it ends. Conversely if you are looking at the picture in post 324 and could see thru the 80 yards or so of brush and trees you would see the beginning of Coyote Field with the MG in the background.
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Chainsaw
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Thanks for stopping by TripleC and for your always encouraging posts. And thanks J-bird for your encouragement as well. Honestly the property has a long way to go to be fully setup to shoot the mature deer and I'm not yet positive there is such a condition as the deer are always changing as a result of our changing our hunting patterns. Finally though this property is well on its way to being set up to grow deer in to 2 1/2, 3 1/2 and even 4 1/2 and to us here that is a very huge deal. And just knowing that they are there to hunt and the inevitable close encounters with 2 1/2 to 4 1/2 year old deer that all of us are sure to have this season has us all very excited. The bunch of us have never all scored on a buck in the same season but as each year passes we see that could become a reality very soon. Good luck TripleC and j-bird. Hope you and your families all have a great season. It's almost time; the fun is about to begin!
Chainsaw
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Here is one of the bands of teenagers that have been running around chasing all the ladies off the plots. Hopefully they are ones that have just dispersed in. Last winter was an easy one with plenty of browse left over and plenty of food all this summer; it is thus surprising to see three spikes together. They may have migrated in from the nearby snow belt area (The Hill). The plus side to having spikes though is that even some of the less discriminate hunters in the area may give them a pass at least early in the season.
Chummer
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Place is looking great Dave. Give me my spikes back! looks like a down year for me. I have one giant eight around and the neighbors already got his running buddy, a smaller 8. The rest are all yearlings. I do have about 10 does that have been around all year so I am hoping they bring a big boy in. I hunted for the first time this weekend, had a great encounter with a four point. He fed around me for about an hour then laid down 30 yards from me. Good luck to you and your crew, looks like you will be having a great season.
Chainsaw
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Thanks Jeremy, great to hear from you. The group of spikes could very well be from your area. If they did just move in then maybe a couple of "our" yearling eights are headed your way. Likely between the high pressure around you and the ten does the better bucks in your area will find your quiet, "safe" Shangri-La. Keep all of the wandering people out of there another week and hopefully you will be surprised in a big way.
Yes we have a chance at a good season. Our dinner table is well set and the guests seem to be bonding with each other. However you just never know what could happen. Sometimes years that start off the worst turn out to be pretty good and vice-versa. We start in a two to three more days but the first few days are usually just warmups with a lucky close call or two. Stay in touch and best of luck to you. The local warden now has more wardens working with him in this area so the spot lighters I hear are taking a licking.
Any great close up pictures of the giant eight working your area?
Chummer
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He is very camera shy and most pics come on foggy nights. I have a decent one of him from behind I will grab this weekend. My main brassica camera misssed the last two weeks from a better issue so I was bummed. That is where I get the best pics but he has stayed out of there so far this year. Hopefully I will have a pic with my gun resting on him this weekend!
Chainsaw
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Good luck this weekend. It is definitely time, seems a few days early but daylight pictures have picked up. Here is a dandy one.
dogghr
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You make me feel better Chainsaw. Snows been light here for most part just lots of below zero temps. Glad we had heavy acorn crop as deer are fat this year. My deer do browse my red cedar as winter progresses. Drought didn't allow tubor growth on brassica and wish I had those in waiting. Have a great new year.
