Stone Branch, build it, they will come.

You should start a commercial logging crew and mill, you've got all the equipment and expertise.

That would be a no no under my current government contract, 8 years left. Besides, I would have to increase my current output of around 100 board feet/day average.

Wound looks to be drying up, may have been a popped pusser like the one on his head. He comes out and stands under my bow stand on a regular basis, which leaves me thinking.

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That would be a no no under my current government contract, 8 years left. Besides, I would have to increase my current output of around 100 board feet/day average.

Wound looks to be drying up, may have been a popped pusser like the one on his head. He comes out and stands under my bow stand on a regular basis, which leaves me thinking.

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Wow that's a big lump on his eyebrow. He needs to heal some wounds before I'd consider eating those steaks.
 
Wow that's a big lump on his eyebrow. He needs to heal some wounds before I'd consider eating those steaks.

That's how I feel about it, I was just thinking, it's all hypothetical. However, I did eat a fallow deer in Colorado that had a pusser on his rear leg.

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I was up on the plateau today thinking that I never see two mature deer together then I looked at the pictures to find Old 8 and Old 10 hanging together. They are the same age, they could be brothers.

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I haven't been hunting mornings because I don't want to bump deer. Which is what would have happened this morning, Old 10 was in and out under my stand from 4:25 - 6:50 am this morning.

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Old 10 would fit right in on my Kentucky wall.

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I was up on the plateau today thinking that I never see two mature deer together then I looked at the pictures to find Old 8 and Old 10 hanging together. They are the same age, they could be brothers.

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I haven't been hunting mornings because I don't want to bump deer. Which is what would have happened this morning, Old 10 was in and out under my stand from 4:25 - 6:50 am this morning.

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Old 10 would fit right in on my Kentucky wall.

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Perhaps you could head up the notch at 3 am and do a long sit until daylight?
 
I was up on the plateau today thinking that I never see two mature deer together then I looked at the pictures to find Old 8 and Old 10 hanging together. They are the same age, they could be brothers.

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I haven't been hunting mornings because I don't want to bump deer. Which is what would have happened this morning, Old 10 was in and out under my stand from 4:25 - 6:50 am this morning.

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Old 10 would fit right in on my Kentucky wall.

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Good grief, he is a tank
 
I'm a real habitat guy but not so much a real hunter.



He does look tankish. The question is, is he hanging 160lb or 200lb. We may or may not ever know.

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I'm not so much a diehard hunter as an adventurer, so it's more the thrill of the chase, formulating the plan of attack, and then seeing if the plan was a good one that gets me up early every once in a while. I can totally understand the not wanting to rise at 3 am every morning to go on wild goose chase deer hunts, but I was thinking more like a one-off experiment to see if you could add heavy to the KY wall?
But you usually don't hit the ridge hard until late October, right? The chance of pre-maturely pressuring those boys away always exists.
 
I'm not so much a diehard hunter as an adventurer, so it's more the thrill of the chase, formulating the plan of attack, and then seeing if the plan was a good one that gets me up early every once in a while. I can totally understand the not wanting to rise at 3 am every morning to go on wild goose chase deer hunts, but I was thinking more like a one-off experiment to see if you could add heavy to the KY wall?
But you usually don't hit the ridge hard until late October, right? The chance of pre-maturely pressuring those boys away always exists.

Been waiting on a break in the heat and dry spell, which came this evening. Less is more up there on the plateau.

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