Da Hammer

you never know. My land is flooded by the big black and MS river and it typically grows like crap without help.

Duck potato is an interesting food source.

At the mouth of the MS river it is absolutely the preferred food for Pintail and Canvasbacks they absolutely love it. Everywhere else I have been it's a potential food but not something I find they go out of their way for.

This late in the game you may still be able to plant Jap Millet and get a decent crop however I would be tempted to leave what you have if you already have water and go with it.

Yeah…. Was a solid no for me before….

200 acres for 20k nope nope nope

Rookie Boats pass christian.

Think about dinner time at a hunting club in the winter. Once you get done helping everyone find, load and clean deer most nights you won't eat dinner until 8-9pm that will suck bigly.

I'm ok with the move but I am a morning person and really prefer earlier sunrises rather than later.

I used to always plant as close to October 15 as possible and it always worked out.

Over the last five years we have had some years where that wasn't the best timing due to rain. I also have a lot of clay hill top fields vs a lot of bottom land fields. There is a huge difference in moisture requirements and while that seems plainly obvious it took a few years to realize this in practice that they can't always be planted at the same time.

So we plant mid October after we have had a rain to help the dirt and before another rain coming. We then come back and side dress with nitrogen approximately 2 weeks later when we can time it before a rain. This has led to our best fields yet in fall and summer. This year I will have a bumper harvest of summer cash crops doing this.

Well written.

I couldn’t be more supportive of avoiding Toronto if I tried. If Toronto was my last option I wouldn’t go.

I don’t know about the hunting part but after getting back from my third summer trip to Montana it’s hard not to love that state. I have yet to spend much time in the tourist trap areas like Bozeman and such. Spent a few nights in Whitefish.

However the rural Montana parts I’ve seen I’ll keep going back and maybe even have a place. Hunting it would be totally secondary. It’s just an amazing state that has just about everything IMO.

I planted around Easter and then again the following rain event about two weeks later.

The drought got a lot of what I planted at Easter as I got 1.5" of rain the night after I planted stuff came up and the drought claimed a lot of it before the next rain two weeks later. Out of 20 acres planted I have 14 acres that look really good with a mix of soy beans, clay peas, alyce clover, joint vetch, a little corn, milo and buckwheat.

Two weeks later I planted our lease and it's doing very well where the deer haven't eaten all of the beans,peas and sunflowers. However I mixed in alyce clover and joint vetch in the mix figuring that stuff would get hammered and the clover and vetch is doing very well and in the majority of my fields the beans, peas and sunflowers are doing well.

The biggest take home for me this year is the fall planting I did have a good bit of red clover in it, something I have never planted before. I have not seen deer eat clover in a way they are eating the red clover over the last 2 months. You can't keep them off it and they are in it day and night and now my drilled spring plantings are coming into their own and it's really looking good. Very happy with where we are right now as far as planted fields.

Planted a lot earlier this year than normal to try and keep turkey nests safe in fields and it seems to have worked.

Also seeing a good number of hens and poults some of which are flying already so hopefully signs of a good hatch this year.

I am so glad I attended the build. Fish was an amazing person and so willing to help his legacy certainly lives on.

Interestingly my hunting camp isn't far from Monroe and I was talking with two members a few months ago and somehow Josey, his family and the fundraiser with the pirogue came up when they saw me out in mine working on a beaver dam. They recognized the style of pirogue and remembered it from the fundraiser. That night is still talked about in Monroe which really blew me away.

Long live the OB! Oh and I still have my coozie! :cheers:

I have an ETEC and still like it a lot but it's a bitch to get worked on.

Rookie Boats on the MS gulf coast does good work on them I typically go there if I have issue. They can still seem to find parts for them so thankfully they are still fixable for now.