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Post by sd51555 on Nov 16, 2020 13:34:16 GMT -6
Dealing with stumps is a job for other people's equipment. That, and busting new trails.
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Post by smsmith on Nov 16, 2020 13:38:53 GMT -6
I have left stumps in plots. Works just fine. Pulling big stumps in low areas can be a tractor trap. Mud with no bottom. Me too. Also leave big rocks and boulders, also works just fine. Spray and pray is all I do. Works great for clovers and brassicas (on my soils anyway)
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Post by chummer16 on Nov 16, 2020 17:54:27 GMT -6
Are you worried at all about your depth of cover to hold a mature buck around? If this is to me I am not worried about cover. Cover is the only thing I have covered. I have learned it is all about the does and they need to eat to stay close.
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Post by kooch on Nov 16, 2020 18:12:54 GMT -6
If I could get the neighbors on either side of me making great food plots, I'd never have to plant a seed again.
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Post by biglakebass on Nov 16, 2020 18:34:32 GMT -6
If I could get the neighbors on either side of me making great food plots, I'd never have to plant a seed again. Been said by many..... Our neighbors benefit from the work we do. Oh well. Beef is better any way.
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Post by batman on Nov 16, 2020 19:37:18 GMT -6
Are you worried at all about your depth of cover to hold a mature buck around? If this is to me I am not worried about cover. Cover is the only thing I have covered. I have learned it is all about the does and they need to eat to stay close. If your deer bed the hemlock a plot there may blow it up?
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Post by Foggy on Nov 16, 2020 20:13:54 GMT -6
If I could get the neighbors on either side of me making great food plots, I'd never have to plant a seed again. Been said by many..... Our neighbors benefit from the work we do. Oh well. Beef is better any way. My neighbors do Zero for food plots each year. The past few years they have taken nice bucks and we have not done so well. They NEVER used to get good bucks......go figure. We are likely not good enough hunters.....as they are getting the fruits of my labor. Damn Democrats! .
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Post by Catscratch on Nov 16, 2020 20:34:32 GMT -6
Fuckin biden!
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Post by smallchunk on Nov 16, 2020 22:03:00 GMT -6
If this is to me I am not worried about cover. Cover is the only thing I have covered. I have learned it is all about the does and they need to eat to stay close. If your deer bed the hemlock a plot there may blow it up? That was my thought as well.
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Post by chummer16 on Nov 18, 2020 16:56:29 GMT -6
If this is to me I am not worried about cover. Cover is the only thing I have covered. I have learned it is all about the does and they need to eat to stay close. If your deer bed the hemlock a plot there may blow it up? This hemlock stand is huge. It is probably 3/4 of a mile long by 3-400 yards wide. It just happens to end on my property. The end is probably 50 yards wide so they bed far enough up the range to have distance. Nothing is flat either so the various knobs would cover me getting in and out.
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Post by Tooln on Nov 21, 2020 8:20:15 GMT -6
Leave the stumps but cut them high. Others have already given you the reasons.
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Post by chummer16 on Nov 21, 2020 9:30:39 GMT -6
Leave the stumps but cut them high. Others have already given you the reasons. That works best anyways. I can cut in March off the 3-5’ snow pack.
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Post by chummer16 on Dec 12, 2020 17:24:07 GMT -6
I'm going to keep this thread going and see where it ends up. I am going to call it the oasis plot. It is only 70 yards from the main trail but is complely blocked from view by various humps and knobs. I am standing half way up a steep ridge. I shot my first north woods buck here in 2005. The plot is going to be on the other side of the water hole. I think I can get it up to 1/3 of an acre. I flagged it today and was ready to fire up the chainsaw when the phone rang. My 73 yo dad shot the biggest buck of his life so I had to pack up and drive the hour home to help him. He even waited for me to gut it for him.
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Post by smsmith on Dec 12, 2020 17:25:48 GMT -6
^^^those trees with brown leaves beech?
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Stump plot
Dec 12, 2020 17:27:39 GMT -6
via mobile
Post by Sandbur on Dec 12, 2020 17:27:39 GMT -6
Waiting to see pictures of the buck!
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