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E_308
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Mixed up some kool aid for my autumn olives. I need to put some foam on the back of the sprayer, it’s not designed for skinny folks!
Hopefully they are dead and dry by the time I light some fire.
My shed hunting assistant bought himself a new hat at the scout store. Also thought he needed his machete “just in case”. Found no sheds.
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Hopefully they are dead and dry by the time I light some fire.
My shed hunting assistant bought himself a new hat at the scout store. Also thought he needed his machete “just in case”. Found no sheds.
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E_308
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The kid got his turkey during youth season. 15 pound Jake put on a good show. After non stop rain all day Saturday any legal turkey was open game! The 410 with TSS #9 shot worked as advertised. The birds weren’t talking much but we did see a few, hopefully the population is on the rebound.
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Found a bird about a half hour into my season which gave me a lot of fire line prep time. Decided to pull the disk around parts of the field, the green brush hogged grass is much easier to control so no more discing fire breaks for me. Humidity was high 40's low 50's and it burned really well. Did about 30 acres. When I went back to check the burn the next morning there was a couple of gobblers strutting on the bottom but with our current turkey population 2 off of this place in a year is enough.
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E_308
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I always enjoy the first trip up after a burn. A lot of these AO drank the kool aid before the fire so they may be more than top killed.
The skid steer we hired to clean up the CRP got done. Probably have to relocate a few piles before the next burn to keep some oaks from getting too hot.
The 1 to 3 tri to diesel mix is showing some promise. Looking like a lot of dead AO. I am going to continue to watch for sprouts, I have been fooled before!
On the July trip we should be able to restock the cobbler supplies.
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The skid steer we hired to clean up the CRP got done. Probably have to relocate a few piles before the next burn to keep some oaks from getting too hot.
The 1 to 3 tri to diesel mix is showing some promise. Looking like a lot of dead AO. I am going to continue to watch for sprouts, I have been fooled before!
On the July trip we should be able to restock the cobbler supplies.
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E_308
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My property boundary in red.
Big news from the last week: I was able to purchase the 33 acres on the southwest corner of the property at auction. Don't close until the end of the year. 12.63 of tillable with the remainder in timber and brush. Land prices are a little crazy but had to buy it to square up the property and give me some better access options.
E_308
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Another buck for the kid with the 300 blk. Pulled the shot a little and hit him square in the neck, straight down. This was on another property within a mile of my tour property. Kids and easier to find deer bring a lot of the fun back into deer hunting. That said I am heading back up next weekend to try to find one for me. I had a good 150" 8 pointer on camera early but he decided to shift his range and got shot by one of the outfitters guys right after youth season. Hopefully the orange army runs some my way this week and the BIL gets his corn cut. It was pretty slow on opening weekend but we got the one we needed!
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E_308
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Closing on my property extension this week. They split an 80 at the river so my chunk is just under 33 acres. Hopefully I will get up there during alternative season around New Years and get so on the ground pics. The north side timber is a oak hickory mix, not much log-able. The east side was a nice bedding tangle with a high stem count last time I was in it. It will make for some pretty fire. By brother in law will farm the ~13 acres of crop ground in a corn / soy rotation. As you can see in the pic the bottom can hold some wet spots, but that is Missouri either flooding or drought sometimes in the same year!
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E_308
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My new box blind (came with the ground) overlooking the bottom. Need a little work and windows but the frame is good. The field will be soybeans next year.
Wooly part of the timber. Flames coming next spring hopefully.
At least one buck made it through.
I have some help cutting trees. Might break out a 330 conibear next trip.
New View from the gravel road.
Back on the original piece the big wind storm they had a few weeks ago got hard on a huge half rotten oak. Unfortunately on the way down it tipped over a good one. Definitely opened up the canopy. May see if a local logger wants to drag it out, too close to my fire lines to not be a pain for years.
Didn't get much hunting done just stayed 24 hours then ran back to KC to dodge the foot of snow that ended up being 3 inches. I did get a Taticam cell cam set up, so far I am happy with it. Just tells me that I shouldn't be at work a lot of the time!
Happy New Year to everyone!
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Wooly part of the timber. Flames coming next spring hopefully.
At least one buck made it through.
I have some help cutting trees. Might break out a 330 conibear next trip.
New View from the gravel road.
Back on the original piece the big wind storm they had a few weeks ago got hard on a huge half rotten oak. Unfortunately on the way down it tipped over a good one. Definitely opened up the canopy. May see if a local logger wants to drag it out, too close to my fire lines to not be a pain for years.
Didn't get much hunting done just stayed 24 hours then ran back to KC to dodge the foot of snow that ended up being 3 inches. I did get a Taticam cell cam set up, so far I am happy with it. Just tells me that I shouldn't be at work a lot of the time!
Happy New Year to everyone!
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E_308
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The new box blind had some cedars and other brush growing a little close for the flames coming soon.
Ran the saw for awhile and sprayed a little chemical. Should be able to back a fire off the base of the blind and be fine.
The real problem is this old dead monster behind it. It looks like I can get the angle right and drop it missing the blind but I wasn't confident in my lumberjack skills to try this weekend. Need to think on it a little more! Fire could make this one interesting too! Spent the rest of the time on the new property hacking and squirting with Triclopyr. A lot of young maples and junk trees. A few 15 -20 ft tall oaks that I am trying to open up around.
Also dropped some cedars in what 20 years ago was a good shed hunting area of native grass. Cedars are so much easier to drop than AO.
But I didn't want the AO to feel let out. Cut 10 - 15 bunches off of one pond bank for some otter fencing for the fish once the ice melts. One of the draw backs of having flowing water bordering on two sides of the property is fish thieves showing up at random times. They get very hard on channel cats. Hoping a little more cover helps.
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Ran the saw for awhile and sprayed a little chemical. Should be able to back a fire off the base of the blind and be fine.
The real problem is this old dead monster behind it. It looks like I can get the angle right and drop it missing the blind but I wasn't confident in my lumberjack skills to try this weekend. Need to think on it a little more! Fire could make this one interesting too! Spent the rest of the time on the new property hacking and squirting with Triclopyr. A lot of young maples and junk trees. A few 15 -20 ft tall oaks that I am trying to open up around.
Also dropped some cedars in what 20 years ago was a good shed hunting area of native grass. Cedars are so much easier to drop than AO.
But I didn't want the AO to feel let out. Cut 10 - 15 bunches off of one pond bank for some otter fencing for the fish once the ice melts. One of the draw backs of having flowing water bordering on two sides of the property is fish thieves showing up at random times. They get very hard on channel cats. Hoping a little more cover helps.
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George
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E, don't waste your time hacking and squirting this time of year you are 90% better off doing it when the leaves are on the trees. The trees that you do now will leaf out and leave you standing there wondering and like me going back and hitting them again. Hit them in later summer and they look dead in two weeks. Congratulation on your new acquisition.
I put a camera on an otter's log when he moved in on a catfish pond in Iowa. He ate until there wasn't a single fish left and then he left. I pictured 8 big catfish eaten for one breakfast.
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I put a camera on an otter's log when he moved in on a catfish pond in Iowa. He ate until there wasn't a single fish left and then he left. I pictured 8 big catfish eaten for one breakfast.
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E_308
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Thanks George.
What I have seen in the past is they will leaf out and look fine but start to get sick in the summer. That was with a stout dose of gly or tordon this is the first time I have tried it with the Triclopyr. I do like it on the AO basal spraying with diesel so far, waiting for snow to melt to break out the back pack sprayer again.
George
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I believe that the trees that I did hack and squirt with triclopyr last winter will be dead but it is just so much more rewarding to hack a tree and see it dead 2-3 weeks later as in the summer treatment. The trees that I double girdled last week had fluid pouring out of them. From all that I have read your basil bark treatment on autumn olive is the way to go, not so with bush honeysuckle. Have you seen any stump resprouting on autumn olive?
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E_308
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Haven't seen any resprouting yet but this spring will be the test. Everything I did last winter got hit with fire shortly after. Should know more about April. One of the benefits of not living on my place is it forces me to be patient. I only hacked about a half acre so I'll report back on that later in the summer.
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