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My hunting season may be ruined
Posted on 9/7/12 at 4:09 pm
Posted on 9/7/12 at 4:09 pm
Got word from the logger we signed a contract with that he's about to start cutting our land. He said the price of pine had gone up. A lot of mine is still hardwoods but all that logging activity will probably kill me for this season.
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Posted on 9/7/12 at 4:13 pm to 4X4DEMON
Some of the clear cuts could be great places to hunt
Posted on 9/7/12 at 4:14 pm to 4X4DEMON
that sucks big time..
two seasons ago a seismic was done on our property in early October.. screwed us up for the entire season.
two seasons ago a seismic was done on our property in early October.. screwed us up for the entire season.
Posted on 9/7/12 at 4:17 pm to Fap-n-Nap
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Some of the clear cuts could be great places to hunt
This.
Keep yer head up bro.. Plus, there's always the quackers!
Posted on 9/7/12 at 4:19 pm to 4X4DEMON
Not as bad as you'd imagine. I had a logger select cutting my lease one year and promised to finish before first Saturday of October. 8 o'clock on first saturday I was in a my stand overlooking a creek bottom watching the squirrels cutting acorns when a crew drives in and cranks up a chainsaw. Every squirrel in the area imediately without hesitation evacuated the trees. Some even jumped out. But by lunch the loggers were through and that even I arrowed a small buck within sight of their staging area. He was just meandering down the middle of one of the skidder trails which was near my stand.
ETA: I probably killed six deer that year because back then were brown it's down days and I rarely didn't kill at least six. Also pretag days.
ETA: I probably killed six deer that year because back then were brown it's down days and I rarely didn't kill at least six. Also pretag days.
This post was edited on 9/7/12 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 9/7/12 at 4:19 pm to Fap-n-Nap
It actually may be a blessing in disguise. I can take the box blade on the tractor and make some food plots after the cut. I dont know what I could plant that late in the year though. Any ideas?
Posted on 9/7/12 at 4:27 pm to 4X4DEMON
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Any ideas?
I'm wanting to try something easy and permanent. I'm not a farmer and the government won't help pay for my dead biologic crop.
Posted on 9/7/12 at 4:35 pm to MapGuy
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two seasons ago a seismic was done on our property in early October.. screwed us up for the entire season.
Cables, flagging, and a few Mexicans laying out and picking it up screwed up the whole season?
Posted on 9/7/12 at 4:37 pm to 4X4DEMON
Deer are curious. They will go check out something new. I think you will be ok. It will open up some areas.
Posted on 9/7/12 at 5:00 pm to Nodust
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Deer are curious. They will go check out something new.
Yep. And in 3-5 years your hunting land will be improved.
Posted on 9/7/12 at 5:08 pm to Clyde Tipton
I had my cameras out last summer when they did the seismic tests at our place, and I had a pic of a mexican walking by and less than hour later a huge 8 point following right where he had walked.
I don't get why so many people are scared of clear cuts. Plenty of deer get killed in open cutovers, you just have to be able to shoot 3-4 hundred yards.
I don't get why so many people are scared of clear cuts. Plenty of deer get killed in open cutovers, you just have to be able to shoot 3-4 hundred yards.
Posted on 9/7/12 at 5:15 pm to REB BEER
They did this about 3 years ago at our lease and cut down a large area of absolutely georgeous hardwoods. It sucked but it didn't really effect the deer that much. It just changes their patterns a little and may take some extra scouting. It does end up creating as many opportunities as it eliminates.
Posted on 9/7/12 at 5:33 pm to Govt Tide
Hang tough...deer run when they here the chainsaws-to the chainsaws. Cutting right now, will cause more available tonnage......they are making you a foodplot. If they cut hardwoods...the acorns will be on the ground. If they clearcut, the next few years should be awesome--increases tonnage(available food at deer height/acre) to levels you can't produce if you planted it yourself....
Posted on 9/7/12 at 6:36 pm to 4X4DEMON
I am sorry to hear about your hunting place, but secretly I am happy about the timber prices going up.
We start cutting our "farm" soon
We start cutting our "farm" soon
Posted on 9/7/12 at 6:45 pm to 4X4DEMON
Do not worry grasshopper.
Deer are used to all that racket. We've had several thinnings of the pines and they will come back. We had one of our biggest bucks ever killed last year in one food plot with clear cut on the right side and thinned pines on the left (by a guest
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Deer are used to all that racket. We've had several thinnings of the pines and they will come back. We had one of our biggest bucks ever killed last year in one food plot with clear cut on the right side and thinned pines on the left (by a guest
)Posted on 9/7/12 at 6:46 pm to CurDog
I'm glad timber prices are up too. I could use the money. It's going to be a few areas but not the whole place. Only the pine thickets. My hardwood bottoms are supposed to be left alone.
Posted on 9/7/12 at 6:57 pm to 4X4DEMON
When Ivan hit over.... there... IP came in and cleared half of our timber.
My buddy shot the biggest Buck in over ten years at our camp
My buddy shot the biggest Buck in over ten years at our camp
Posted on 9/7/12 at 7:34 pm to Fap-n-Nap
I hope the words of encouragement hold true. I need to do some killin.
Posted on 9/7/12 at 7:42 pm to 4X4DEMON
Winter wheat. I planted it in Nov before and it came up like a champ. Once all the acorns in the woods were gone had deer in my yard every night.
Posted on 9/7/12 at 7:47 pm to BarDTiger81
Excellent idea. I tried that a few years ago. It did real nice. I forgot about using that.
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