"Whitetail Hollow" - 90 Acres NE Oklahoma.
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I am sorry you weren't able to pick that 10 acres up... In our area being the capital of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma they have a housing program where they build a modest brick 3 or 4 bedroom home on an acre of land if someone will deed you one or you have one and the house payment is low and the time frame to pay off is short so. You can pick some colors but the houses themselves are built identically to one another with no option to change them. We could have gone that route but we wanted a totally different floor plan so we went a different route. The thing I am seeing now is that these things go up fast and anywhere someone can get someone to deed them an acre then a house will be thrown up in there within the year. I see new ones started weekly on my drive home from work. Lots of these are being put up in wooded tracts on corners of larger properties...I was afraid this would eventually happen with the 10 acres we are getting. My west neighbor lady is so nice and doesn't know how to say no so I am sure she would have given an down her driveway and past her house to it and that would have been that...sometimes you have to but to protect just what you have...I will probably never hunt that 10 but at least nobody else will be building on it or hunting it either...We are looking at a future logging of it and it will just turn into a much better bedding area a couple years after that happens...
Thanks 3C - glad we were able to do it right now...we got about 1.5" over the past 2 days so several seedlings saved!
It did Todd...I was more excited about the rain than anyone ever should be...I would not make it as a farmer in Oklahoma...
That has a nice ring to it...sad thing is we are now the largest single landowner along our county road. We have a piece to our east that shows to be around 140 acres but it was broken up into 10 acre pay by the month until it's paid off by the owner and then he deeds it to you deal so it has 10 acre hunting camps and little carved out homesteads all over it. I think 3 of them have electric and the rest are off grid...It happened before we got our place so it's not like it just happened and is a nasty surprise for us or anything...I have a standing agreement with the actual deed owner of the land who broke it all up that if any of the folks fail to pay for any of those 10 acre pieces that we will pick them up...they have agreed to that...he has had a few over the years pass away before they were paid for or just up and leave it but that was before we came along...
Thanks CTM1...The rain we just got should throw them into overdrive and I agree on the additional land being a good thing!
It was glorious, glorious rainwater...we got more last night!
Had a great weekend...
Saturday morning ran errands and then that evening decided to put the auger back on the tractor and go put the 4x4 post in that my new Banks 300 feeder requires. Instructions call for burying 8 ft 4x4 3 feet deep...Rocky ground is where my auger shines...3 minutes or less to dig a hole it would have taken 2 hours with a rock bar, pick, and hand held post hole diggers...
Took a few more pics of white oak regen on the property...
Also put out 50 lbs of dicalcium phosphate and 50 lbs rock salt in a mineral station.
Awoke to blessed rain Sunday morning and the wife and I met our daughter and her family at church for Easter service. The grandkids had a great time!
Yesterday evening by jingles I knew I was ready for turkey. Had my call, had my camo tree umbrella in front of me and I was sitting the oh so turkey infested south plot.
I had turkeys gobbling their heads off within 60 yards of me just outside the plot. Calling produced 1 hen turkey only that decided the clover was yummy...oh so close once again...from all my sightings I believe we have 7 longbeards and 2 jakes...no problem, 3 more weeks of it to enjoy!
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Saturday morning ran errands and then that evening decided to put the auger back on the tractor and go put the 4x4 post in that my new Banks 300 feeder requires. Instructions call for burying 8 ft 4x4 3 feet deep...Rocky ground is where my auger shines...3 minutes or less to dig a hole it would have taken 2 hours with a rock bar, pick, and hand held post hole diggers...
Took a few more pics of white oak regen on the property...
Also put out 50 lbs of dicalcium phosphate and 50 lbs rock salt in a mineral station.
Awoke to blessed rain Sunday morning and the wife and I met our daughter and her family at church for Easter service. The grandkids had a great time!
Yesterday evening by jingles I knew I was ready for turkey. Had my call, had my camo tree umbrella in front of me and I was sitting the oh so turkey infested south plot.
I had turkeys gobbling their heads off within 60 yards of me just outside the plot. Calling produced 1 hen turkey only that decided the clover was yummy...oh so close once again...from all my sightings I believe we have 7 longbeards and 2 jakes...no problem, 3 more weeks of it to enjoy!
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Merle Hawggard
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Looks like you had a wonderful weekend with the rain making it even better.
That pay as you go place reminded me of the spring river beach club that was around hardy I think not to many years ago.
Your neighbor sounds honest, but this guy didn't record deeds and had plots that he'd sold securing loans for himself at the bank it was a mess for a lot of people when he took the money and ran to Mexico.
Back to hunting, your turkey population sounds tremendous! I heard one lone gobbler last week and several hens.
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That pay as you go place reminded me of the spring river beach club that was around hardy I think not to many years ago.
Your neighbor sounds honest, but this guy didn't record deeds and had plots that he'd sold securing loans for himself at the bank it was a mess for a lot of people when he took the money and ran to Mexico.
Back to hunting, your turkey population sounds tremendous! I heard one lone gobbler last week and several hens.
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Pretty sure the neighbor is on the up and up...He is mid 80's and wife is about 20 years younger. She has a shrewd head for business so I figure it will continue on once he passes. Son is also in the loop...2 of the 10 acre holders have paid theirs off and deed was transferred on those...
Yes, the turkey hunting is great and getting better...If I was as into turkeys as I am into deer I would have tagged out long ago but I just go out for an hour or so every so often and I don't get extreme when trying to get a turkey...If they start walking away I just get up and leave to go do chores...lol
It works good. I have only tried it once and only had a hen come in but she never seemed to notice me at 15 yards...I won't leave home without it now for these quick hunts if the wind is light...
I am just popping it up in front of me and using my foot to hold it up or using brush/small trees to hold it. I am always on the move so I think that will work best for me.
dogghr
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Still amazed at you WO regen. To get that here, it usually goes thru some transformation of thickets that allows the oaks to begin to grow. Has that area been burned either by you or naturally in the last 7-10 yrs?
What is the canopy consist of, white oaks primarily or other?
What is the canopy consist of, white oaks primarily or other?
The areas I have posted pictures of have had no fire through there in at least 40 years. The canopy is big white oak, post oak, red oak, hickory, and huge shortleaf pines. White oak are in every section of the 90 acres. I clear cut and dozed near our home and have lots of revenue of white oak in this area as well. White oak in our area seems to regen more readily than any other oak...
Weasel
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I'm the same way Johnny. And I get a big one or two every year without much effort. Maybe I need to start approaching deer hunting the same way LOL
Nice problem to have for sure! Plots are looking good as are the crop of grand kids. Glad there is some rain falling on you.
I guess I am getting soft because I really love to just hear and see the turkeys...when I was young I wanted to kill one at all cost and walked mile after mile chasing a gobble...now I go out for a little bit when I can and usually find myself working instead of hunting. I still have the breast from both turkeys I killed last year...lol
Thanks, grandkids and plots doing good. Have a good chance of rain mainly Friday of this week and a much cooler weekend. Maybe be more motivated on the turkeys but plan is to mount that new banks feeder, move and place some ladder stands and trim some shooting lanes because very soon I will be totally leaving the area alone until September planting and then fall hunting.
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Home 10 will have some pears and apples this year!
Backyard at Whitetail Hollow as I was leaving for work. Sunday's rain kicked WR and clover into overdrive!
Same yard 1.5 years ago...amazing what you can grow in rock on a slope...
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Backyard at Whitetail Hollow as I was leaving for work. Sunday's rain kicked WR and clover into overdrive!
Same yard 1.5 years ago...amazing what you can grow in rock on a slope...
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Past 3 weeks drought monitor...
Chance of good rain tomorrow...hopefully we can claw our way out of this...
I live dead center of the worst of it...
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Chance of good rain tomorrow...hopefully we can claw our way out of this...
I live dead center of the worst of it...
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