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  1. Regarding food plotting: After doing some exploratory digging to ascertain soil depth, I moldboard plowed the areas I wanted to plot. These were old pastures. Deep plowing isn’t a necessity, but I wanted to try it and learn some of the old ways. When my folks were under contract buying this place, I had taken some soil samples and sent in for analysis to see what they’d need amendment wise for fertility. Luckily, one ton of fertilizer from the local feed store fixed me up, so not a big hurdle. I had a fab shop build me a cultipacker and I assembled a get-r-dun all-in-one arrangement for planting: I like Turner Seed Fall Deer Mix, but It’s a little hard to get, so this year I just planted winter wheat, oats, cereal rye, and clover. I usually mix in fertilizer with my seed when planting 50-50 to dilute the seed and add a little kick every year. I usually plant in October. The deer really have taken to the plots. I haven’t done exclusion fencing around the plots in years past, but I will probably start in some areas going forward to help the plots get going before letting the deer in. These pics are from February a few years back. The winter-early spring nutrition supplied by plots is very helpful. Once the plots bolt in late spring would be a good time to turn cattle in on it, this is an April pic: The deer and turkeys use these plots a lot, it’s nice to watch them graze on something you planted. We have two plots you can watch from the porch of the house. I’ll post on feeders next.
  2. This can’t be overstated.
  3. From what I’ve seen, both exemption paths are doable, it really just depends on the ecology of the tract and you want to do with the property. The way we’re managing our place, I’m confident we could have changed from Ag (cattle/grazing/hay production) to wildlife without much additional effort to satisfy wildlife requirements (maybe a few bird boxes and reveg with native grasses in lieu of Klein; etc.). The dilemma is messing with grass/cattle or not. If our place wasn’t so setup for cattle, we might have changed to wildlife, but we’ve got some good sized grass pastures that are setup decently for grazing, and rotational grazing/getting the grass down will actually help forb production/antler growth for whitetail (per King ranch studies). Additionally, with beef prices the way they are, a low maintenance cow/calf operation can offset some expenses. If we didn’t have improved grass pastures with some cross fencing, plenty of stock tanks for water, a corral, etc.; we’d have leaned toward wildlife a lot more.
  4. I’ll play. We’re on 200 acres, low fence in Lampasas county. Our place was the original Storm ranch (as in Storm’s hamburgers in burnet and lampasas). It was in serious disrepair when my folks bought it 6 years ago. My dad got with the county Ag extension office and we’ve been under contract to remove cedars and reveg with Klein grass the last few years on about 100 acres. The Extension money barely pays for the diesel and some equipment maintenance but it’s something. We’ve taken down over 10,000 cedars easily. We’ve used skid steers with a grapple bucket and a dozer mostly. My dad made his own custom root grubber from grader blade: On a kick ass day I can take down 500 cedars with this machine: The cedar was so thick in the back that I found a bus completely hidden in a thicket while tracking a deer. The previous owners hadn’t said anything about it, they might not have even known it was there. The hardest part of the clearing is burning. We’ve probably set over 100 burn piles off. The next season after we burn a pile I’ll spread the ash and plow and seed. The spot where this pile was is now a food plot: We’re almost done with the ā€œinitialā€ clearing. A ton more forage has sprung up in the areas where cedar was removed, and an old seasonal spring started flowing again. We have some useable soil in a few areas and I’ve been doing fall food plots for about 5 years. I’ll post more on food plots and wildlife impacts later.
  5. 686 replied to tfoolry's topic in Lulz
    I think this is the most Christmas-y thing to ever happen at our house. This and a lump of coal I got a few years back are by far my favorite ornaments.
  6. Is that Quigly’s special lady on the right side in front of Jedediah Nightlinger?
  7. Big body on the buck with the broken left beam
  8. I had a good week in Colorado last week. Didn’t get an elk, but had a good time. Had a young bull almost run over us; stopped at about 20’ away as he was running on the trail we were on. We locked eyes and he wheeled around and was gone in less than 2 seconds.
  9. Nice work! Is that a Sako?
  10. It’s really fun to see people finally ā€œgetā€ hunting - awesome that he had such a great day too! Nice of you to let him hunt your spot and shoot a 10 point as well!
  11. Hunting the third elk rifle season in Colorado with a friend. Saw three bulls today but couldn’t get a shot on one. Rained a lot this afternoon, supposed to snow tomorrow.
  12. That’s awesome! I had an opportunity to buy one of the original Mateba Autorevolvers about 15 years ago and I really regret not doing that.
  13. For it to be full 2020, he would need to push the feeder over, stomp on the mechanism, and then take a shit on it.
  14. The sway back and the belly make him look 5+ to me, but overall body frame seems small for that age. Tough one.
  15. What county?
  16. Beautiful stuff! What action on the 6mm-06? Douglas heavy barrel?
  17. Over the years my dad has come upon 3 deer stuck in fences and still alive, and was able to free all of them without incident. I usually find a dead one every couple years at our place. Lost a decent 8 or 10 point a few years ago in a fence.
  18. What cartridge are you considering? I’m trying to resist a 257 Weatherby, 270 Weatherby, 6.5 Swede, and 6.5x284.
  19. That is one hell of a buck!
  20. I basically had the same thing happen. I did at least have a couple thousand .22 and an ammo can of .45; but only about 100 rounds of 5.56.
  21. hunting in the hill country I would invariably hit a rock, so aluminum body broadheads were a one shot deal. I had better luck with steel body. If you’re in sand or soft dirt, it’s a little easier on the wallet.
  22. It’s been a few years since I’ve shot my bow, but when I was shooting more I shot Rage some, and they do some amazing things, but I did have blades get caught on something and ā€œdeployā€ while sitting in my bow a few times. Luckily I caught it before drawing back on anything. I switched to slick trick fixed blades after that, but I think the mechanical companies have improved the blade retention devices since then. Are those Wasps aluminum or steel body?
  23. To paraphrase a Hellboy quote: ā€œI’m not a very good shot, but these bullets have 4000 ft-lbs of kinetic energy...ā€ I don’t like long tracking jobs, and I like to feel confident out to longer range if the situation arises.
  24. Yeah, I’m coming up with a 20’ radius. ((8 x 16) / pi) / 2
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