The Playground

[E_308]

Made it up last weekend to mow some trails and slop in a few plots. My pto was locked up tight on the mower so I couldn't hook on to the tiller. Sprayed with gly and threw out about 1.5 acres of wheat. Then mowed or rolled depending on the plot. Little early for wheat but they had a good chance of rain all week. Sprayed down the PTO with Kroil before I left to hopefully loosen up. Any suggestions on getting a stuck PTO off?

 

[KSQ2]

Made it up last weekend to mow some trails and slop in a few plots. My pto was locked up tight on the mower so I couldn't hook on to the tiller. Sprayed with gly and threw out about 1.5 acres of wheat. Then mowed or rolled depending on the plot. Little early for wheat but they had a good chance of rain all week. Sprayed down the PTO with Kroil before I left to hopefully loosen up. Any suggestions on getting a stuck PTO off?

Haven’t had to tackle that as of yet.

 

[Drycreek]

Throw some heat on it and it should separate. Don’t get it cherry red but get it hot. You might tap on it pretty hard with a hammer before you try the heat. Gonna need a oxy/acetylene torch to get it hot enough. Good luck !

 

[E_308]

My usual default mode is "tapping" with a hammer and liberal application of swear words! That failed. Hopefully the penetrating oil works but if not I'll try heating it up. Thanks

 

[Mennoniteman]

Can you get behind the lip with the "hook" on the end of a crowbar? (keep a short wood block handy) A little late for this time, but shot of wd-40 on the PTO before hookup goes a long way...

 

[E_308]

This was my dwarf chinkapin oak about a month ago. Any ideas what would cause this? Also had the same thing on some bigger white oaks.


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[KSQ2]

This was my dwarf chinkapin oak about a month ago. Any ideas what would cause this? Also had the same thing on some bigger white oaks.


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Ours look like that, but it is a result of hail for us.

 

[g squared 23]

I’ve heard it has to do with the cicadas.


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[E_308]

I’ve heard it has to do with the cicadas.


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That might be, they did have the double hatch in that part of MO.

 

[E_308]

North east Missouri has been pretty slow this year both on camera and in person. I set some cameras out on a little 40 ac chunk I had access to closer to Kansas City. Surrounded by unhuntable Corp ground and a subdivision. Once I got this guy on camera I figured I better spend a little time there. Tried a few morning and night sets during bow and rifle season. Nothing. Only had one daylight picture from 11 am. So last Friday I took the day off and got to the stand at 10 am. At 10:20 he came stolling up a mowed path into a little patch of wheat I put in. I was worried about him getting over the fence. Took out his on shoulder, he ran about 15 yards in the timber and stopped so I put another insurance round in. The roofers that had been banging around in the subdision had stopped hammering! Crazy how I spend all my time crafting deer habitat in NE MO and shoot my biggest deer to date in a pasture just outside of city limits.

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[T-Max]

Dang nice buck! Congrats!

 

[Native Hunter]

Very nice. Congratulations!

 

[weekender21]

Wow! What a buck!


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[George]

Good one E, congratulations.

G

 

[E_308]

Took two does off of this property back in November and dropped their heads off at a MDC freezer. Both came back negative. The section straight west of ours had one positive this year. 4 positives county wide. Inside the CWD management zone they have tested 25,704 and found 115 = 0.45% detection. I got my letter in the mail offering to shoot more after season closes, I am going to pass again this year.

 

[Mennoniteman]

North east Missouri has been pretty slow this year both on camera and in person. I set some cameras out on a little 40 ac chunk I had access to closer to Kansas City. Surrounded by unhuntable Corp ground and a subdivision. Once I got this guy on camera I figured I better spend a little time there. Tried a few morning and night sets during bow and rifle season. Nothing. Only had one daylight picture from 11 am. So last Friday I took the day off and got to the stand at 10 am. At 10:20 he came stolling up a mowed path into a little patch of wheat I put in. I was worried about him getting over the fence. Took out his on shoulder, he ran about 15 yards in the timber and stopped so I put another insurance round in. The roofers that had been banging around in the subdision had stopped hammering! Crazy how I spend all my time crafting deer habitat in NE MO and shoot my biggest deer to date in a pasture just outside of city limits.

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I missed this post earlier, but that's definitely a lifetime buck right there! I enjoyed reading your story and it reinforces the fact that the most important thing a trophy buck needs to get huge is to have a hideaway to survive to get older.
Just curious about the details, did you shoot him with a. 308? 150 grain sp? Ruger hawkeye with a Leupold scope? Did you age him? 12 points? Did you score him yet?

 

[E_308]

Rifle is an old Remington 700 ADL my Dad had. I restocked it and had some other work done to it. I had a post on it on the old QDM forum that I moved over here years ago.

https://deerhunterforum.com/threads/building-the-last-rifle-i-will-ever-need.93/#post-1145

It is a 30/06 shooting 165 grain Hornady SST handloads. Scope is a Leupold VX3 3.5-10x with the CDS dial.

14 points if you use the old hang a ring method, 13 if they have to be an inch. He is a little over 160 gross. By the jaw I'd put him at 4 - 5, but I might send off a tooth just to check if I am still calibrated.

 

[Mennoniteman]

Rifle is an old Remington 700 ADL my Dad had. I restocked it and had some other work done to it. I had a post on it on the old QDM forum that I moved over here years ago.

https://deerhunterforum.com/threads/building-the-last-rifle-i-will-ever-need.93/#post-1145

It is a 30/06 shooting 165 grain Hornady SST handloads. Scope is a Leupold VX3 3.5-10x with the CDS dial.

14 points if you use the old hang a ring method, 13 if they have to be an inch. He is a little over 160 gross. By the jaw I'd put him at 4 - 5, but I might send off a tooth just to check if I am still calibrated.

I was going to guess in the 160's, which gets you pretty close to Boone&Crockett, pretty elite company. You know that the goal of deer hunting is to shoot a big enough buck that you don't have to be embarrassed to show it to your buddies, but not that big that they get jealous. Well, you sure overshot that mark, a victory lap is okay.. I'm also guessing all your friends were jealous .
I guessed a .308 because of your forum name, and I guessed Ruger because the stock forearm looks like a Hawkeye composite, except the front sight not looking like Ruger, although it looked very familiar, now I remember the ADL and many other Remingtons having those tall sights.
As I started reading your story I was a bit surprised that it turned out to be a rifle hunt in such a populated area. In PA we have 150 yard safety zone for any building unless you have written permission from the owner, which usually makes the thick jungles behind housing developments archery only. Congrats on finding this spot and putting a wheat plot in there, Im sure there are a lot more landlocked thick brush patches behind housing complexes where B&C bucks die of old age, where hunting permission could be obtained by helping or making friends with the landowner.

 

[E_308]

I was about 165 yards from the nearest house.

 

[E_308]

Sold my fur haul on Saturday. A small bobcat $25. Beaver $6. Five muskrats = $1.50 per. Grand total = $38.50. I wonder why nobody traps anymore! Buyer said coons were back up to $5-10 for really good ones. At least paid for the gas and taught the kid not to be wasteful.