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Hinge cut.
Prep for plots
Plant hidie holes with clover
Transplant spruce trees
Prep new shooting lanes for new stand locations.
Practice, practice, practice.

 

Help my son shoot his first turkey
Work on food plots
Move some stands
Figure out hunting plans for this fall
Freshen mineral sites
Check cameras
Work on protein block

 

I have looked into them and heard nothing but good things! I have a BPS gift card though so Im just going to get whatever they have.

 

Lay down copious amounts of Monster Raxx
Run a fleet of DLC Coverts
Perhaps prepare 1 kill plot
Try an kill a turkey with bow an shotty
Catch a 7lb + LM and 5.5+ SM
Buy at least 10 hangons
Acquire new hunting property
Continue beast mode at the gym
Scout a lot
Kill some whistle pigs
And so on

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Cutting down trees to expand my food plot to about 40-50 yards squared then bringing some new topsoil because the soil has got so many roots in it. Going to plant early and plant a lot of different plants and let the deer have at it over the summer. Then see which ones they hit the most and replant for late summer and fall. Pretty excited about it actually. Something about helping deer habitat is exciting.

 

Open square food plot, be sure to either put it in a thick thick section of the woods or put some screening in it to strengthen the deer's security feeling. We've seen more and more daytime movement in our plots over the years as we've thickened up and lesson the length deer can see. They feel safe...they will come.

 

When you say "screening" what do you use?

 

Tons of approaches like Egyptian Wheat, Hybrid Sorghum, hybrid willows or other plantings....some even use corn left standing but these tend to get thin.

 

Are any of those perennials so you only plant once? It would be nice for that cover to be year round and only have to do it once if you know what I mean.

 

None of those besides the willows or other plantings is gonna be a perennial. Now what you can do is plant hybrid willows, pines or anything else and as they grow plant strips of EW or sorghum till they get to the level you are okay with just the plantings serving as the sight barrier. Other people have been known to use switchgrass as sight lines...this can take some time as well and recently a lot of people have gone about switch by planting it the first year with sorghum. The sorghum gives you the immediate cover with the switch hopefully taking hold and starting to grow a lot the second year.

fyi..be looking for an email in the coming days finally.

 

10-4. I'm thinking about trying the hinge cutting around the perrmeter and see how that does.


Here is what my plots look like when the leaves are still on.







And he is what it looks like with the leaves off.

 

Plantings: 2000 3yr old bare root Norway spruce,350 hybrid poplar cuttings,150 hybrid willow cuttings,25 2ft bare root sawtooth oak,10 3ft bare root honeycrisp apple trees,10 acres in food plots,32 lbs of Egyptian wheat for screens. Not to mention the 600 pcs of 6 mil 4x4 black plastic i cut already,35-6 foot sections of concrete wire mesh cut, AND the 500 5ft tree tubes, 1200 5ft bamboo post and 3000 1x6 staples waiting to be used.

 

Yup it's in the middle of the woods so they feel pretty safe and it's not a square I have fingers of food plot going off tge main section.

 

Yeah Brad I'd be thickening the edges up and trying to make the transition zones from the bedding to the plot thicker as well. Thickening up around the plot is great, but one should also consider getting the deer there by feeling safe as well.

 

It is going to be a busy spring and summer for us as we have a lot of work to do.

1. Purchase or at very least lease a new 40 acre property (Selective Hinge cut).
Put in a water hole (Lease has a natural spring that needs to be dug out.
Establish Mineral sites
Place new stands
Fence off a 20 acre parcel of timber and 10 acre parcel of pasture from cattle to assist in thickening up woods and for planting of crops in pasture section.
If new land is purchased also start establishing an apple and pine grove. Also establish TSI logging plan for new property.
Work with relatives to plan out potential purchase of a 52/80 acre parcel next to current land in coming years.

2.Move 7 stands to 2 different properties and hang sets.
Establish a new 4-wheel (access point) trails on both properties (2 trails on 120 acre property and 1 on the other)
Create 3 new mineral sites between these 2 sites (ALL COVERT and hopefully MONSTER RAXX too!)
Lease out a 25 acre parcel of ag. on one property to be planted in corn.
Establish 1 new water hole (Creative way: Gutter hose and working hand operated well pump)
Establish a 3 acre food plot with a plot screen around edge (Milo, Egyptian wheat, or corn)
Plant another 5 acre food plot on another property.
Build new platform stand.
Complete annual trimming of existing trails.

3. Update gear. Looking at new DSLR camera and a videocamera (filming accessories). Purchase mount for bow to hold iPone 5. Purchase a better camera arm. I sold a couple year old lone wolf climber last year so I need to get a new mobil set up (Leaning towards Muddy or Lone wolf hang on and sticks). Decide on mineral site product to use once snow melts (What is out will continue to work for now). Lastly, probably pick up another few 2013 Coverts.

4. Overall, some of these things may not get done. If purchasing some new land was all I am able to do I would be happy. Everything depends on how much help I can get on how the weather cooperates. I’m getting married this summer so once spring is over my work time will all but disappear.