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Post by Catscratch on Dec 5, 2021 12:45:08 GMT -6
Not exactly a before/after pic, but you get an idea of what it looked like from the pics in the above post. I haven't brushhogged yet and there is still some wood that needs picked up, but it looks pretty good. The far edge and to the right is thick as all getout as it goes down into the ravine. I think this will make another edge. I'm now very interested in in clovers that can grow in understory.
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Post by Sandbur on Dec 5, 2021 12:51:14 GMT -6
If that were Minnesota, I would be hunting that thick strip of brush in the background. My Dad would have hunted the open area, ‘where he could see’ We had a different style of hunting and he learned to hunt in an era with far less hunting pressure. He didn’t often pass deer in those days, but killed them, so they didn’t get educated. Just eaten.
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Post by Catscratch on Dec 5, 2021 12:55:21 GMT -6
If that were Minnesota, I would be hunting that thick strip of brush in the background. My Dad would have hunted the open area, ‘where he could see’ We had a different style of hunting and he learned to hunt in an era with far less hunting pressure. He didn’t often pass deer in those days, but killed them, so they didn’t get educated. Just eaten. The bluff slopes to the right, the ravine goes down to the bottom from left to right. The thick stuff makes a "T" at the bottom of the hill. I have my stand at the bottom, centered with where the ravine reaches the bottom. It's an intersection of thick stuff. I don't like to hunt the open either and prefer thick. Almost always can hear a deer before I see them. I hardly ever shoot a deer, so if I'm not careful everything get educated eventually.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Dec 5, 2021 20:11:51 GMT -6
Cool log there !!
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Post by sd51555 on Dec 5, 2021 22:00:31 GMT -6
Spent the day in Wichita shopping for a bathtub. Had some pent up energy when I got home this afternoon so I've started my project. Don't honestly think it will amount to enough to make a difference to hunting, but maybe if I can make a screen and get some clover to grow? Saved out some of the straighter trunks for firewood. Color me jealous of that grapple. I put my big brushpile in the wrong damn spot. Now it's too close to good stuff to burn, probably too big to move, and i wanted to plant there. I didn't plan on it getting as big as it did.
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Post by batman on Dec 6, 2021 6:48:24 GMT -6
What will grow if you leaf blower all the debris away? Or just start a fire and video it. 2nd idea is solid.
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Post by sd51555 on Dec 6, 2021 7:01:57 GMT -6
What will grow if you leaf blower all the debris away? Or just start a fire and video it. 2nd idea is solid. I'd have to pull it away. It's maybe a 12' leap to get embers up into the big fir canopy. There's also a nice 3' fir right on the edge of the pile. I'd imagine some time with the excavator, I could move it all with one swing, and then do a winter burn. Lotta canary grass in that spot.
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Post by Catscratch on Dec 6, 2021 8:28:02 GMT -6
A fire is planned as well as some brushhoging. Should be plenty native stuff that pops up. From the open lane I cleaned up looking west at the stand (behind the cedar); The lane that runs south from where the first pic was taken; To the south east; To the east;
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Post by Catscratch on Dec 6, 2021 11:02:36 GMT -6
Just swung by the place (had to take little cat to the specialist in Wichita for his broken hand this morning). Pulled in the driveway and there's a nice 10pt and 2 does standing in the middle of what I cleared this weekend. They ran straight to the thick stuff and stopped to watch me move on.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Dec 6, 2021 12:26:54 GMT -6
I found a great rub line that is in open oak/walnut timber with a line of cedars within 30 yards. A big buck must be bedding close. Here is a pic . Basically a nice edge.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Mar 5, 2022 18:44:34 GMT -6
Cedar work and hinge cutting on tap for Friday /Saturday…Temps are gonna be cold for Iowa. Lows around 0.
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Post by honker on Mar 5, 2022 19:16:00 GMT -6
Cedar work and hinge cutting on tap for Friday /Saturday…Temps are gonna be cold for Iowa. Lows around 0. That was my plan for today until the all day rain rolled in
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Post by Bwoods11 on Nov 22, 2022 14:38:25 GMT -6
I had a light bulb moment on November 7 after seeing a bunch of bucks (14 that day) do the same thing in the timber on Missouri…If I can duplicate that on a few other locations. My odds of killing bucks might increase considerably.
Sometimes it takes 54 years to figure it out!!🤔😌.
Make an archery pass of open timber next to the thickest part of the timber overall . It’s nothing new, but I learned a couple small tidbits that can be duplicated!
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Post by benmnwi on Nov 22, 2022 15:46:34 GMT -6
I had a light bulb moment on November 7 after seeing a bunch of bucks (14 that day) do the same thing in the timber on Missouri…If I can duplicate that on a few other locations. My odds of killing bucks might increase considerably. Sometimes it takes 54 years to figure it out!!🤔😌. Make an archery pass of open timber next to the thickest part of the timber overall . It’s nothing new, but I learned a couple small tidbits that can be duplicated! Did the bucks exit the thick stuff to cruise in the more open timber that was adjacent?
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Post by Bwoods11 on Nov 22, 2022 15:56:47 GMT -6
Yes and they did most of the chasing in the open, but occasionally ran the does into a block of cedars . It was noteworthy that they trotted fast through the thicker cover/down the ridge and then kind of stopped and surveyed the open timber area.
So if I had a set up on each end of this prime spot. I could hunt it with about any wind. Once they break the thicker cover is when a guy would have his archery shot . **Gun it probably would not matter where the stand is…
I also thought a doe decoy might work here. I was surprised they did more visual chasing, rather then down wind to scent check ? Maybe because they were mostly younger bucks ?
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