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re: My hunting season may be ruined
Posted on 9/7/12 at 8:28 pm to Clyde Tipton
Posted on 9/7/12 at 8:28 pm to Clyde Tipton
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Cables, flagging, and a few Mexicans laying out and picking it up screwed up the whole season?
really messed us up for bow season and a lot of the deer went nocturnal. We didn't see any shooters until the 2 weeks of the season.
550acs, 4 deer were killed. So yeah, we had a screwed up season.
Posted on 9/7/12 at 8:31 pm to MapGuy
That sucks. Most of my deer are nocturnal anyway due to the meth addicts around my land. I was looking forward to really getting into bow hunting this year, but I guess I won't be doing that at my place. Anybody got GPS coordinates for 79s lease?
Posted on 9/7/12 at 8:40 pm to 4X4DEMON
there is a lot of good points in this thread though.
clear cutting will help the under growth and vegetation.
I would go find a couple of nice oaks and see what comes out. You may be surprised
clear cutting will help the under growth and vegetation.
I would go find a couple of nice oaks and see what comes out. You may be surprised
Posted on 9/7/12 at 8:44 pm to MapGuy
I think I'm going to utilize my climber more this year. I know where there are some good oak flats on the edge of the swamp.
Posted on 9/7/12 at 9:07 pm to Tiger 79
If you know I'm coming, its not really trespassing is it?
Posted on 9/8/12 at 12:21 am to 4X4DEMON
May be the best season you've ever had. I welcome them cutting no matter when it is. Is used to sweat it, but after seeing the pay off I've changed my tune. Always pains my heart to them cut big hardwood though. I think of the generation that will never see that kind of growth. Nothing prettier then big hardwood bottoms at daylight. Not great for killing big deer thou.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 12:22 am to 4X4DEMON
I shot one last year thirty minutes after a tractor had been working there. I almost think after awhile they come in behind them.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 7:31 am to faxis
I think they learn that once the machinery goes queit. They can come in and. Find fresh acorns on the ground, new browse such. As cut tree tops, etc
Posted on 9/8/12 at 7:52 am to FelicianaTigerfan
We'll see I guess. Maybe yall are right and I'm looking at this wrong.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 9:43 am to 4X4DEMON
Talked to my dad this morning, he said they were going to clear cut the pines and replant them. Should take atleast a couple of weeks. Hopefully they'll be done by the first weekend of deer season.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 1:38 pm to 4X4DEMON
Same stuff is happening to the lease I hunt in Mississippi. Deer like cutovers for bedding. Maybe not right away, but give it time.
If you want to plant something for late season, go with turnips. Up here, it's way past time to plant them--not like the drought helped much anyway--but you can plant them down South up until around early or mid-October, depending on when the first good frost is expected.
If you plant them now, you should be in good shape. Once the frost kills the plant, starch turns into sugar, and deer will be all over it. I'm going to plant some next year adjacent to one of our corn or bean fields and fence it off to keep cattle out.
If you want to plant something for late season, go with turnips. Up here, it's way past time to plant them--not like the drought helped much anyway--but you can plant them down South up until around early or mid-October, depending on when the first good frost is expected.
If you plant them now, you should be in good shape. Once the frost kills the plant, starch turns into sugar, and deer will be all over it. I'm going to plant some next year adjacent to one of our corn or bean fields and fence it off to keep cattle out.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 2:52 pm to brad8504
I'm in north Louisiana. I think the wheat will be good to go.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 4:16 pm to 4X4DEMON
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I'm in north Louisiana. I think the wheat will be good to go.
For sure. The only reason I suggested turnips is because it's a cold-weather crop. Deer will turn the plot inside out come late season.
I'm giving bowhunting a shot, too, because we only get 12 days of rifle in Kansas, 9 in Nebraska. We have very few, if any, suitable trees for a stand site, so I've got a round bale blind with real straw. It's farm country, so they know what we smell like, and round bales don't spook them. I'm limited to evenings-only hunts until the rut. I really don't want to try infiltrating the wooded areas because I don't want to risk bumping them off the property completely.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 5:44 pm to brad8504
The boys on tv always set up in the buffer zone between fields.
Posted on 9/10/12 at 1:39 pm to 4X4DEMON
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The boys on tv always set up in the buffer zone between fields.
It's practically a buffer zone where I'm setting up, but the tree selection is terrible for hanging a stand. It's mostly cedar trees in the area, and they aren't but maybe 10' tall.
Posted on 9/10/12 at 1:52 pm to 4X4DEMON
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he said they were going to clear cut the pines and replant them. Should take atleast a couple of weeks
They probably won't replant until January or February. They thing you've got to watch for is that they new trend is to row the property before planting. Think three foot rows from trough to top. Makes it all but impossible to go across them.
Posted on 9/10/12 at 2:05 pm to TigerDeacon
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They probably won't replant until January or February. They thing you've got to watch for is that they new trend is to row the property before planting. Think three foot rows from trough to top. Makes it all but impossible to go across them
Not everyone does this (rows).
I've had the pleasure of having the same lease for 30 years. I've seen it all in big timber, clearcuts, select cuts, burned, and everything in between. Our place is pretty big, and about once every 3 years or so there is a logging operation going on during hunting season somewhere on the property. I've killed deer in sight of the loggers on numerous occasions. One year I killed bucks on consecutive evenings sitting on a pile of logs the loggers had just left 15 minutes prior. Logging doesn't spook deer or push them to be nocturnal near as much as hunters driving 4-wheelers to stands or hunting the same stands over corn piles every day.
Although, a cutting timber during turkey season can cause a flock of turkeys to pick up and move and not come back. I've seen this several times.
Posted on 9/10/12 at 2:31 pm to 4X4DEMON
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I dont know what I could plant that late in the year though. Any ideas?
Turnips will still come up
Posted on 9/10/12 at 2:57 pm to LSUTiger205
What prices are they giving you for pulp and chip n saw right now? I have about 80 acres that could use some thinning.
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