.. can be found in this video. Check it out! http://www.qdma.com/videos/right-turn-from-tradition-part-two
Watched it earlier nicely done. You have nice piece of property there. I learned somethings too i never really paid much attention to deer management since i dont have my own deer to manage but in the future i see it as something i will be doing for sure.
Great video, great learning and great message at the end. I only wish I had some land to call my own and do all this ! One day maybe
17 minutes is too long for my attention span, but i read 260 acre farm, and i take it Location is the answer? (Seriously though, i couldn't imagine how awesome 260 acres to manage would be. Just a pipe dream for me and most guys. Im lucky enough to have 100 acres at my disposal...keep up the dream sir!) Edit again...got the video on in the background. Egyptian Wheat? Ive been looking into that as well... Back again...broke down and watched the whole thing. Not bad, not bad at all.
Fantastic Job Cody. It's good being you Sounds like you have a cool family as well. On a side note, the shot of you by your tree stand with the sticks. Are the sticks attached upside down or am I putting mine on upside down? LOL Just an eye for detail. LOL
Thanks everyone! Yes! They are upside down. Todd Graf actually gave me those sticks when I worked at the BHC office a couple years ago. We were cleaning out the garage at the office, and he told me they were mine if I wanted them, so I took them. Only problem was, they didn't have any straps, and there were only three. So I just spaced them out like you would a LW or Muddy stick and used a ratchet strap to tighten them up against the tree, and voila, I had another stand site!
260 acres is actually an average chunk of land around here. There are family farms that have been in the same name for over 100 years, and some of those surpass 2,500 acres. A couple farms in the area break 5,000 acres. It's funny the difference in land size between here and the midwest. 260 is HUGE to a lot of bowhunters I talk to from the Midwest, but around here folks complain that 500 isn't enough. The Egyptian Wheat worked out pretty well for us this year, but I actually prefer the grain sorghum to the EW. Of course, it all depends on what you're trying to accomplish, but the EW grew insanely tall (8-10ft.), but it was so tall it wasn't as thick as I would have liked it to be, and since EW is a grass, once the cold weather hit it shriveled up in no time. The sorghum didn't grow as tall (maybe 6-7 ft.) but remained insanely thick throughout the entire season, and is still almost impenetrable now. Both are good options though, and with better soil I'm sure they'd do even better.
Great idea but aren't the steps angled down instead of up? I'd think your feet would be sliding off. Great job on your property. Maybe someday. It's a nice dream Thanks for all the info.
They are, but they are ladder sticks, so they are meant to be stuck together as one unit. But since I only had three, I wouldn't get very high off the ground, so I had to turn them upside down. Had I left them right side up, then the ratchet strap would have went at the bottom of the stick, so I would have been falling out against the tree. The top step is pretty tight against the tree, though, which is why I made sure I installed a lifeline at this set. Thanks for the kind words though! I'm very, very thankful to have land that I have full access to and can hunt and manage so intensely. I know it's something a lot of hunters would kill to have, and those who do worked really hard to obtain it, and I blessed to have 260 acres to romp and roam right out my backdoor ever since I was kid. I am very blessed.
What im looking for is a good/thick screen. Only has to be around 7" tall. I have some fooplots i want to "fence" in this fall...thanks for the advice.
