Happy fourth guys! I spent my morning on the lake ripping lips!! also I checked cards last weekend! not a monster but he's looking good!
Happy 4th! I'm checking the millionaire property cam today, so hopefully I will have a couple big boys to show off later.
Well good Morning fella's, I apologize for going dark for so long. Honestly between work, my now 10 mo old son, my wife, and just life in general it has been a crazy spring/summer. So to catch you up on everything. Turkey season was a bust this year. I was only able to hunt a state park here in IL and not my Indiana property due to some conflicting work travel. So I ended up eating tag soup. I have my new Mathews Traverse all paper tuned and ready to go. Just need to get a sight tape on my HHA and I will be ready to fling some arrows. Heading down to my In-Laws in Indiana tomorrow for a week. I will get my cameras put out (hopefully they all still work) and my feeders filled so I can start taking inventory. I will also be refreshing our mineral sites while I am there. As far as food plots go I may spray a few this week as well in prep for August planting. I have been working to secure some more archery spots closer to home but so far it has been tough. Hopefully by the start of the season I will have at least one new place so I can hunt a little more often without having to drive 4 hours.
I hung a stand today and it's in a crazy section. I hung it on a wall of Vines and ivy. I cut only the holes I need and it's a totally covered stand in a 5acre section of super thick bedding. I also heard a rumour that the farmer that didn't plant this year might plant winter wheat. I've reached out to him and can't wait to find out.
So I work for my neighbors and they also allow me to hunt their land, it's a fenced off apple orchard that has other crops in it as well. I was working on a blueberry fence and turned to see a nice velvet buck just outside the fence looking right at me. I said out loud to the buck " in 2 months you could be a dead man" he looked at me turned away put his tail up and stood there...........I saw more then I wanted to and now it's personal I think I have pictures of the buck but ill have to look.
And it starts! We just enrolled the 4 year old in soccer. Games are Saturday mornings through mid October.
It only gets worse brother... I have 2 both in just about everything... My oldest is the sectionals mvp and captian of her VB team... It goes from aug-nov and the most important games are late season and all are 6pm
I remember racing home from basketball practice in high school to sit int s tree for only 2 hours usually, fun but so tiring
I’m now coaching 7th grade basketball. Practice starts October 7th and runs through the second week of December Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
I checked cards this morning on two cameras close to the house, the WGI camera was a bust the files were corrupted and the batteries almost dead so I pulled that camera down. Then checked my stealth cam over a mock scrape with some good activity and one nice 8 who I am not sure I have seen before! Oh also Amazon has the stealth cam I like using on sale for 75 bucks so I snagged one and a 48 pack of batteries!
Put out a camera and resituated my tree stand and straps where I shot that 150 incher last year. Neighbor has planted beans again and the landowners property where I hunt has been completely undisturbed except for me going in there to get things ready. Going out tomorrow to a new property I got permission on and hopefully planting a food plot. Bad news is the landowners wife said she doesn't like chemicals so I can't spray or anything. We'll see if anything grows lol.
That’s what happens when you are a young teacher in the school you grew up in! Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
I know things have been slow but I think they will heat up soon with new team sign up. Over the years I've watched a lot of Hunting videos but I always find another one that I haven't seen yet. Had a friend send me a link to a video with good land management advice just the other day. With that being g said, would you guys be interested in sending a link or two to some of your favorite Hunting videos? Might help pass some time and it's always fun to watch a big one drop.
