Well I'm finally over the hump with this season's prep work. Most of the spring/summer was involved with trail work and creating a 1/4 acre food plot. Trails are done and food plots are planted. This weekend I was relocating stands and trimming lanes. I have 2 more stands to put up and I am ready for the season to begin. How is everyone else doing?
One more stand to hang...trim lanes for all stands. Then I'm ready. Except for possibly planting clover/rye this early September.
About the first of september when the temp cools down a little I gotta refresh a mineral site then put the seat on the stand I hung up. Still got one more stand to hang up but it can wait until season starts because it's more of a late season stand anyways then a few limbs to trim for it.
I want to swap one stand out and move it to a different location. Those will be my only two stand I leave up all season. Everything else will be run & gun with my LW.
I've done quite a bit of camp work, not so much actual hunting prep though. I belong to two camps now, and up north we have built bunk beds, replaced a camp roof, and done about 4 cords of firewood. This past weekend was my first work weekend at the camp I go to in the southern zone and we split/stacked around 3 cords of wood, finished a three year long siding job, sprayed to start the late season plots, and managed to get 12 cameras out along with 5 mock scrapes. A couple of the other guys that hunt down south at that camp have been doing a bunch of work though and we have a good 6 food plots going along with close to 60 acres of corn. Considering the mild winter last year, we should have a good year ahead of us. We have a handful of good bucks running around as well. The shed pics below were both found on the property late last winter very close to where one of our members saw him last year, and the cam pics are all from this year too.
Looking good Matt! Firewood is good exercise as I've handled about 7 cords myself this year. A lot of mine came from clearing a food plot. Good luck.
Thanks Greg! Anyone want to take a stab at what those sheds would score assuming 17" inside? I'm figuring he's high 140's to 150 but haven't taken the time to measure him.
I still need to over spray the pestie Neighbors stand with "Selfbros Deer and Rabbit Repellent" since the ladder of his stand is literally touching the fence facing my ground where my big bucks like to roam. I also bought 2 cheap stands to put up on the fence row facing his ground. He owns over 200 acers and I have 60. F him!
i havent even found my hunting land yet! i might go to my grandparents cabin up north wisconsin. Thats like a gauranteed deer!
All of the prep work is complete on the properties I hunt. I have no food plots so that reduces my job to hardly anything! Just waiting for 9/15 to get here. I've got 2 stands prepped for the WI opener pending wind direction for the AM. The PM I will be going into a thicket mobile with my stand/sticks on my back hoping to catch a big boy that is stretching his legs getting ready to get some food....that is if I am don't get anything in the AM. In the meantime, I will continue to practice all shots with my bow. My favorite is shooting out of my dtr's 2nd floor bedroom window. That one gets that neighbors talking!!
Hanging stands here within a week/ week and a half. Just some Brassica plots and clover plots (all small) to get in this coming week as well and then set back and shoot my bow more.
Set cameras and trimmed some trees for the climber. Didn't do much of a food plot bc it's not my land and all I got are some small tracts of hardwoods surrounded by corns/beans. Been seeing deer though!
I need to plant a late season plot in a few days, and get access to a adjacent property that a shooter is showing up right outside of the propert I have permisson to hunt. Other than that I still need to broadhead tune.
Greg Sounds like your done ,hats off to you, good on ya! I have 3 stands to take down and fix and move. Got to try another area that's intruiging to me on the bases that I think High Tower and Mr Perfect are frequenting this area with regularity. That's just a hunch,that's why I want to get in and hang a few TC's to tell me the truth. Could be the sleeper in the 45 acre parcel as a game trail is 5 inches deep between the fence and the lone tree that a stand can go in. I'll let you know if either buck is using the trail in mid September after SD check! Rocky
