The Brushpile

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Just a few years ago the historical average rainfall average for June was 5.5 inches, but after drought, that historical average is now 5.15 inches. For several years there wasn't an inch of rain in June, the historical wettest month. Average rainfall for July is 4.43 inches, I was wrong above when I said it was 2.25. This July Pleasant Hope recorded 0 inches in July.
 
It seems so unbelievable that you had a drought in midsummer, the old-timers say they can never remember a summer as wet as this one in the midatlantic region.
 
Brushpile said:
Another day another heat advisory and only .37 of an inch of rain with no rain in the forecast! The Brushpile is dying, there will be no chestnuts or fruit, and big trees will die.

I'm going fishing on the St Croix River between WI and MN. My river has stopped flowing!

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Brushpile said:
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Just a few years ago the historical average rainfall average for June was 5.5 inches, but after drought, that historical average is now 5.15 inches. For several years there wasn't an inch of rain in June, the historical wettest month. Average rainfall for July is 4.43 inches, I was wrong above when I said it was 2.25. This July Pleasant Hope recorded 0 inches in July.
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We got 0 inches in July as well...normal for us...
 
I am a little north and east of you brush and I have and 38.01 inches of rain so far this year. I had .80" on Tuesday. I must be in a totally different pattern than you are. All my ponds are full.
 
Satguy said:
I am a little north and east of you brush and I have and 38.01 inches of rain so far this year. I had .80" on Tuesday. I must be in a totally different pattern than you are. All my ponds are full.
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That's amazing. My pics tell the story. I was hoping to share some AC and chestnuts, but most of the Chestnuts aborted and the AC might not form nuts.

Further South Okie says drought is normal, and when I track in Kansas I notice that Kansas is greener than around here.

That said, rain arrived in August and I'm hoping for moist soil to remain for good tracking.
 
This is a Bur Oak that was planted in 2008 and has been producing giant acorns since 2011. Though it's precocious, it needs more size to produce a bountiful crop. This not a hybrid or specially grown tree, it came from the MDC, $7 per bundle of 25, and it was planted without a tube or weed mat.

 
I have a red clover/alfalfa plot on an absentee landowner, that is a sanctuary I seldom enter until deer season. This Spring the plot was 18 inches deep and weed free. The one time I approached it 6-7 deer bolted, so I left the plot and haven't been back until today. Thistles and Wing Stem were over my head, and my arms are scratched, and full of welts from weed whacking Thistle TREES that landed on them.

I need rain bad, but there is clover and alfalfa under all the weeds I whacked down. There is no rain in the forecast, except for a 50% chance on Tuesday morning. To fertilize or not to fertilize????
 
This food plot was 2 feet deep in red clover and alfalfa when I jumped 6-7 deer off it last Spring. I went back this week and was shocked to see it covered in 6-7 foot tall weeds that included huge Canadian Thistle!


This plot is under a stand, so I went to work with my weed whacker.



 
There is no rain in the forecast, so I hesitate to fertilize, but there still is clover and alfalfa.



I'm hoping deer will like the regrowth.
 
This stand overlooks a plot I planted this Spring.


This plot was sprayed with glyphosate, weed whacked and then seed was broadcast by hand. Spring was wet, but Summer has been dry.

Another view from the stand.

This stand is an a natural funnel, so the plot was only intended to slow deer down.

I sprayed Gly and broadcast clover to form a quiet path to my stand. I have very poor night vision, so I need the path to follow in the dark.

 
The salt block in the pic was removed. Salt licks are not legal in Missouri this year, because it is thought that they congregate deer and spread blue tongue.
 
This is a Chinese Chinkapin planted in the yard. Drought caused it to go dormant and when I watered it, it flowered! These pics were taken on Sunday.


 
Since I had open heart surgery I have used a crossbow. It was dead on when I shot my buck last year, so I expect to take a couple practice shots and be ready to hunt, but then I almost missed the target on my first shot, and adjustments did nothing to correct the problem. So I checked the scope and everything moved, to include the trigger. Either a screw was loose of missing, so I took the crossbow to Bass Pro. The Archery Department couldn't fix the problem and sent me to the Gun Smith, who determined there was a screw missing and suggested a zip tie. :-o, and sent me to Fine Guns for a zip tie!

With the tip tie everything still moves, but not as much, so I sighted the scope back in and hoped it stayed that way.
 
Today was the season opener and my goal is to shoot a deer for my dogs to track. Breeze and Heidi have never seen a deer, but run good training tracks, so it's important to get them on a real deer track.

At first light I spotted a deer at the far end of my food plot, and it was heading toward the funnel and wouldn't present a broadside shot, so I took a front quartering shot. At the shot the deer bolted and I could see my Luminock bounding through the brush. I could not have hoped for more.... a track on opening day!!!

I shoot a fixed blade broad head, which gives good penetration. The deer was hit where aimed and went about 75 yards.



The point went the length of the deer and broke the far femur, failing to maintain it's integrity.

 
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