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Post by Sandbur on Nov 15, 2021 15:52:16 GMT -6
 This pond was dry last summer. Our home is in the background. |
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Post by benmnwi on Nov 15, 2021 15:53:21 GMT -6
That's looking pretty good. Is the ice thick enough to walk on yet? That sure looks like a good place to find a late season rooster!
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Post by honker on Nov 15, 2021 15:53:54 GMT -6
That’s the opposite of my place. Going into the winter with little to no water in normally wet areas.
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Post by Sandbur on Nov 15, 2021 16:00:35 GMT -6
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Post by Sandbur on Nov 15, 2021 16:04:11 GMT -6
 Years back, someone from Iowa or Missouri sent me some Swamp White Oak Acorns. This is the only tree that has done well. The other tree here at home was destroyed when the deer got the cage off. The two trees up north are not even knee high. |
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Post by Sandbur on Nov 15, 2021 16:04:45 GMT -6
That's looking pretty good. Is the ice thick enough to walk on yet? That sure looks like a good place to find a late season rooster! That ice might hold a mouse. |
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Post by Sandbur on Nov 15, 2021 16:05:26 GMT -6
That’s the opposite of my place. Going into the winter with little to no water in normally wet areas. We dug this pond thirty plus years ago. |
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Post by Sandbur on Nov 17, 2021 14:52:01 GMT -6
Yesterday, I made another loop. I have a few scrapes in my woods, but I have only found two rubs. Does this mean the deer were elsewhere prerut?   It looks to me like there is a scrape right at the base of the stand where I shot my ten pointer. A doe was standing right there just shortly before I shot my buck. |
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Post by Sandbur on Nov 17, 2021 14:56:21 GMT -6
  There was a scrape on the berm from this waterhole. I didn’t find this waterhole until we had lived here about ten years. it got a bit deeper during a dry year about 10-15 years ago.  I haven’t been in this area since last spring. It was probably dry last summer. |
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Post by Sandbur on Nov 19, 2021 12:31:34 GMT -6
Yesterday, I made another loop. I have a few scrapes in my woods, but I have only found two rubs. Does this mean the deer were elsewhere prerut? It looks to me like there is a scrape right at the base of the stand where I shot my ten pointer. A doe was standing right there just shortly before I shot my buck.  . Here is the picture I took from my deer stand, six days previous to finding the base of the stand pawed out. There is no overhanging branch. A hunter and I were talking today and wondering if the steps could act like the overhanging branch. |
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