"Whitetail Hollow" - 90 Acres NE Oklahoma.

[OkieKubota]

Our whites are pretty spotty this year also. I think it is a certain type, maybe post oak, that are dropping. We only have about 3 reds after oak wilt and the drought, which also killed all the blackjack. I found a loaded red next to a massive persimmon, which is where I will probably be opening day.

Only native oak I could even possibly see "naturally" dropping an acorn right now (and it would be rare) is a Chinquapin. They usually start dropping mid-September through first couple weeks of October.

If your acorns that are on the ground are green they are aborting or were blown out by a big wind event...

Post oak acorns are one of the last acorns to drop and in our area I don't think they made this year which is actually good from a deer hunting standpoint...

Oak wilt dealt our property a number as well because we have lots of skeleton's of massive red oaks throughout our place but a few did make it and of those few all of them are loaded...black jack oaks all died on our place - none left.

If those red oaks or persimmons are dropping around the opener it could be good. Put a camera in there and see.

Our White Oaks start dropping right at the beginning of October with our Red Oaks about 3 weeks further out to begin falling...

 

[OkieKubota]

Glad you have more does hanging around. They are as curious as the rest of us wanting to know what OK is doing next. Hope you have good luck with those plots. Got mine tilled and ran the chisel plow over them today.

I may have to get a chisel plow soon. I know I am going to buy a much heavier disk in the not too distant future. Saturday Home 10 gets the treatment and Sunday Whitetail Hollow gets worked over because my brushhogging calls for September are starting to pile up!

 

[jteeen]

Only native oak I could even possibly see "naturally" dropping an acorn right now (and it would be rare) is a Chinquapin. They usually start dropping mid-September through first couple weeks of October.

If your acorns that are on the ground are green they are aborting or were blown out by a big wind event...

Post oak acorns are one of the last acorns to drop and in our area I don't think they made this year which is actually good from a deer hunting standpoint...

Oak wilt dealt our property a number as well because we have lots of skeleton's of massive red oaks throughout our place but a few did make it and of those few all of them are loaded...black jack oaks all died on our place - none left.

If those red oaks or persimmons are dropping around the opener it could be good. Put a camera in there and see.

Our White Oaks start dropping right at the beginning of October with our Red Oaks about 3 weeks further out to begin falling...

I meant that when I looked at all the limbs last week of various trees, I saw acorns on some. I'm not good at identifying within the white oak family so I'm not sure which ones have them and which ones don't. Plenty of whites that were loaded last year are empty this year, which hopefully will make early season a bit easier...

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[Don B]

Laid back 9 is finishing up real well...

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That's a really good looking buck. Looks heavy,(fat). That rice bran must be putting it on them! I've tried rice bran, some. Never could get them to eat it much. It would just get hard and crust over! You might have to put him on the hit list!


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[OkieKubota]

I meant that when I looked at all the limbs last week of various trees, I saw acorns on some. I'm not good at identifying within the white oak family so I'm not sure which ones have them and which ones don't. Plenty of whites that were loaded last year are empty this year, which hopefully will make early season a bit easier...

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Gotcha...sometimes it's even really hard to see the acorns in the tree even though they are there.

I haven't noticed any green acorns on the ground anywhere I have looked this year...

 

[OkieKubota]

That's a really good looking buck. Looks heavy,(fat). That rice bran must be putting it on them! I've tried rice bran, some. Never could get them to eat it much. It would just get hard and crust over! You might have to put him on the hit list!


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He is a really fat deer and I am pretty sure his favorite thing in the world to do is eat. He doesn't have a large frame body like a couple others I have seen in the past or even as big as "Hurt 9"...

This buck is the biggest bodied deer I am awaiting to show up. Past 2 years he has shown up in October and I stop getting pics right around antler drop/green up...

This next buck usually shows up between now and late September and he hangs around till about February...

This next buck only shows a couple times in late fall/early winter...

I put out 50 lbs week of bran in 2 installments with 1 either Saturday or Sunday and the other Wednesday. If I put the whole 50 down on Saturday it is all gone by Tuesday at the latest...

 

[lakngolf]

You have quite a feed bill. Great looking bucks there.

 

[OkieKubota]

You have quite a feed bill. Great looking bucks there.

$6.99 a 50 and 1 50 a week so I spend less than $30 a month on it and I only put it out for camera survey starting in July and stop once I see use has dropped off due to acorn drop and then begin again in December once the acorns are picked up so I spend roughly $200 a year... I don't drink pop or buy snacks or smoke so I figure if my vice is seeing what is around I can live with that...

 

[OkieKubota]

Well this past weekend was time to start putting in plots on the 2 properties the wife and I own. I decided to start at "Home 10" which is now actually 28 acres... I have not gotten any new areas ready yet since we just recently got the additional acreage so I am plotting where we always have in the past.

My clover over there couldn't take the hot dry weather we had so I decided to disk that area under and plant something else in that area...

This is what I started with.

I have some throw n now areas so I started by liming, fertilizing, and spreading seed. I put winter rye, PTT, and Daikon Radishes, in throw n now areas using my new spreader for everything...

After I mowed over that...

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[OkieKubota]

Then it was time to get started with the disking for the other areas. I had about 1/2 of it all done when I realized I had lost a nut, cast iron outer washer, knotched disk blade, and cast iron spacer. With some effort I found the single disk but nothing else was above the dirt...

I walked it out real good but couldn't find anything so I called my cousin to ask if he had a metal detector. He did not have one but told me a guy I graduated high school with had one and loved to use it so he gave me his number and I called him up. He was game for helping me try to find my parts so he came right over and we started looking.

We pinged on several things and ended up finding 1 of the pieces I was looking for and a couple of old civil war musket bullets.

I then got the rest of it disked, fertilized, limed, seed spread, and packed it with the tractor tires...I spread winter wheat, winter rye, and daikon radishes in these areas... I am going to overseed it with red clover once we get a good chance of rain since everything is very dry right now.

We may have a chance of rain later this week...


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[dogdoc]

Good looking seed bed Johnny. Glad you found the spacer. Might be hard to replace.

Love the 3pt spreader. I bought mine used and it is very close to biting the dust.

Hope we get some rain
Todd

 

[OkieKubota]

Good looking seed bed Johnny. Glad you found the spacer. Might be hard to replace.

Love the 3pt spreader. I bought mine used and it is very close to biting the dust.

Hope we get some rain
Todd

I called our local tractor and farm supply store yesterday and he said they keep the pieces I am missing in stock so I should be able to get it back together this week so I can get our plots up on the hollow done. I actually went over and spot sprayed and limed the south plot last night. I still need to do the same for the north plot.

I bought the spreader from the same place - $425 total which is about $60 less than Tractor Supply had it for. I have a stainless spinner plate on my old Cosmo spreader that I used after a friend pulled it out of a dump for me that will work on this new one so once this one starts rusting I can switch it. I have washed it out thoroughly both times I have used it so far and when I am done for this fall will coat it with diesel and gear grease to make it last a little longer...

We have a chance of rain today and I am keeping my fingers crossed. Saturday while I got all of my throw n mow in right before a 1/2" rain. I disked after the rain but didn't get seed down till the next day due to all the time we spent looking for parts. When I planted it was dusty, dusty!!! I didn't throw my my clover in because I thought it might get pushed in too deep by the tractor tires so I will hand broadcast it perhaps starting this evening...

The plots on the hollow are going to be a challenge. It's a real gravelly type of ground held together by dirt. It's the reason you can cut a road anywhere up in that country and not really have to put anything on it except to smooth it out. Very hard pack!

 

[lakngolf]

Looks like home 10 plots are in good shape, ready for some rain. Spreader looks good. Have you tried the box blade diggers on the hard packed soil?

 

[dogghr]

Cool find in the fields. Goes with your flint arrowheads. As for the spreader, what is the brand or did I miss it. Are you spreading the small seed with it alone or are your mixing them in with your larger seed? In other words will it spread small seed properly alone? I need that. Great thread as always.

 

[OkieKubota]

Looks like home 10 plots are in good shape, ready for some rain. Spreader looks good. Have you tried the box blade diggers on the hard packed soil?

Not yet Milt... I have been waiting on a rain to help soften the "concrete" type texture the ground has...I may end up buying a 9 shank Chisel Plow (Cultivator) the tractor/farm place has for sale used... These plots have mainly been clover plots since I began them so it is pretty hard for me to till that under but I am wanting to try some different things this fall...

 

[G3 Ranch]

Looking good, I hope to get some seed down this weekend.
My local fert/seed dealer didn't have rye in as of last week, hopefully he does now.

 

[OkieKubota]

Cool find in the fields. Goes with your flint arrowheads. As for the spreader, what is the brand or did I miss it. Are you spreading the small seed with it alone or are your mixing them in with your larger seed? In other words will it spread small seed properly alone? I need that. Great thread as always.

The guy who was helping me look for the parts told me he had found many of the civil war bullets and if it had 2 grooves around it was Confederate and 3 groove bullets were Union...don't know how true that is but sounded good to me. Our property there is not far from Fort Gibson which was a Peacekeeping Fort that at the time was the furthest west of any other Fort.

The spreader is a Euroch Agrex 500. I spread radish seeds with it but that is as small as I have done. I mixed WW,WR, and Daikon Radish seed together and even threw in the last 1/2 bag of sunflower seed I had. I looked it over after I laid it down and it looked like I had a nice even mix...with PTT and Clovers I still either spread by hand or with a small pull behind yard spreader...since I am fairly inpatient when it comes to getting work done I usually just hand broadcast that stuff...

 

[OkieKubota]

Looking good, I hope to get some seed down this weekend.
My local fert/seed dealer didn't have rye in as of last week, hopefully he does now.

They have it at CO-OP in Tahlequah if you need some and your place doesn't get any in...I hope to get my plots planted on the Hollow this Saturday because non-stop brushhogging begins Sunday and will run through the month of September. Everyone wants their place to look manicured going into fall...

 

[G3 Ranch]

Thanks for the contact, I'll be on it if need be.
I've been doing a good bit of mowing at my place, things got away from me, this summer our work schedule has been over the top.

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[OkieKubota]

Thanks for the contact, I'll be on it if need be.
I've been doing a good bit of mowing at my place, things got away from me, this summer our work schedule has been over the top.

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I have very little mowing to do on our small properties but I brushhog commercially in my spare time (what is that?) and the calls are rolling in