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    Replacing dead ash trees

    I have about 80 acres dying green ash. Scares the heck out of me to ride or walk through there. No way would I get in there. I would have to think long and hard about trailing a deer in there - is it worth your life. Might make it out ok - might not.
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    G&H Farms

    She couldnt say anything - she is the reason I left to help her do something
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    G&H Farms

    Made myself a promise - never again after summer is over. I always run straight from the extractor through a 400 micron filter into a bucket with honey gate. As long as it is warm outside, works great. We had two nights of 25 degree - that didnt help
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    G&H Farms

    smoked a few sticks summer sausage today
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    G&H Farms

    Robbed a few hives over the weekend. This frame of honey is what you wished all of them were. New wax, thin caps, full frames - unfortunately, a lot doesnt look like this here is a frame after the cappings have been removed with a hot knife - ready for the extractor you can see the...
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    G&H Farms

    food plots coming around. Very little use no water, no ducks😎
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    Found a pawpaw patch

    A pawpaw here will never hit the ground. The coons and possums eat them all
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    Permanent herd building insanity?

    I am talking in general - at least me, I am not going to go out and intentionally kill my does with buck fawns in hopes they stay around, anymore than I would shut an unbred queen bee in the hive she was born in and force her to breed with drones of the same gene pool or have my male dog breed...
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    Minnesota bucks

    Dang at the mass!
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    Permanent herd building insanity?

    Is that what a land manager would really want - the buck fawns staying around your property and presenting the opportunity for inbreeding?
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    Foodplot drilled into NWSG without killing NWSG

    I doubt you would even have to drill it if you caught a decent rain. I top sow a lot of wheat and have pretty decent luck
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    Live from the stand thread

    How regularly do you have success with a longbow while hunting from the ground? That sure does look awfully open for ground bow hunting.
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    How to Turn Old Hay Field Into Deer Habitat

    In addition to what Ben said about killing the existing vegetation in the field - which I agree with - I would have a hard time not planting a two acre food plot in that “V” from the field that extends into the woods a little bit. Food plots almst always will see at least a little deer use -...
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    Super beaver moon is up!

    A lot of folks maintain the full moon results in deer moving all night. My experience, for several years, as a federal wildlife biologist I used to assist the state biologists with they were in the area doing their abo mason parasite counts - otherwise know as “APC Shoots”. Typically, we would...
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    G&H Farms

    This is proof that all deer are not created equal. Rode by my last two apple trees with fruit still hanging. I hadnt been by there in a couple days. Picked up a few gallons of apples laying in the ground - the deer ignore the apples My garden turnip patch doing well deer been all in it...
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    Top States for Mature Buck Harvests

    I do think another thing that probably boosts the average harvested age structure in AR a lot - the observation data, gained from over 4000 hours of observation data in just my region, there were an average of 5.3 bucks seen per ten hours hunting, with 2.6 (half) of those bucks four pt or less...
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    Top States for Mature Buck Harvests

    They basically do the same thing here - the not killing the allotted tags is what lost favor with a lot of hunters, and why they drop out. But I think a hard requirement on the harvest is now a suggestion - I think they were seeing declining participation in DMAP. Herd data is gathered from...
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    Top States for Mature Buck Harvests

    Lot of hunters here got out of DMAP because of the requested doe harvest. The only thing DMAP does here that you cant legally do anyway is kill more bucks and does than state regs allow, and kill them with a rifle five months a year.
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    Top States for Mature Buck Harvests

    I have found, in my area, where our regulations are so biased to killing deer - except for our apr - thank you. Combine that with our southern heritage of hunting for food and self supportive life style - I really think a lot of our deer harvest, especially with larger acreage under one control...
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    Top States for Mature Buck Harvests

    According to a post here early, 51% of bucks harvested in iowa are 1.5 yr old. I would guess most states, a 130” 3 yr old is going down when it walks out in front of most hunters - wherever it is found. Take what you want from the advertised harvest age of bucks by state. Dismissing the fact...
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