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Got invited to Eufala, AL for a hog hunt with a guy who whitetail hunts next to us in Ohio. So Thursday I picked up my 6th grader at school and we took off. 850 miles one way. Hunted Friday evening in a borderline hurricane and didn't see much. Saturday Morning was dead too. But I had a...

I have a couple apple trees to replace from last year. I had some 2' whips I planted and tubed. Unfortunately, the deer or wind knocked them over and the deer buzzed them almost into the dirt. I used those cheap blue lay flat tubes that you roll into a cylinder. I always show up at the hunting...

I have several Spartan Go Cams I use as one offs to go with my Cuddelinks. Has anyone used them or had any issues with deer's reaction to them? They take good pictures, but last evening I was hunting near one and just about every deer that entered the field past the camera (which is over 6' off...

Looking to add a gun to the stable. I have a gift card to the gun shop that's burning a hole in my pocket and would like to find a gun that fills a caliber void I've got. So I have my varmint guns in 223 and a 243 Win, I have a 7 mag and a 300 WSM, but Would like something in between that 243...

Life gets tougher to kill your own deer when you have 2 boys who also want to kill one. My 9 year old had a rough start to his year. Winged a buck earlier this year and gut shot a small doe. Turns out, the string on the crossbow was shot. I changed that and it sighted in much better. Flash...

I'm blessed to hunt some fantastic ground in Knox County Ohio. It's my favorite place on earth, even without the deer hunting. I have good folks for neighbors, although we don't share the same goals in the woods and I'm trying to figure out if I'm becoming one of those grouchy old selfish men...

Finally, almost 2 years after booking it, I was blessed enough to spend 10 incredible days in the Alaskan bush with one of my best buddies from college who moved away, and my wife. She have never sat in a deer stand with me, but wasn't going to miss out on the adventure. She spent 100 hours on...

Anyone seen one? Held one? Got one? I'm intriuged and would like to try something in Ohio with more rear end than the 350, but without the recoil of the 450. Have they started being released yet? I see ammo for it.

I love my GoCams for stand alone cell cams. But hate the battery life issue. So I got a couple 15w panels, only to find out I have to plug them into an external battery. I've done the car battery thing, but the whole reason I want a solar panel is so I don't have to touch the camera or move a...

I finally have blossoms on my pear trees at home. It’s only 2-3 trees, but they’re calling for a temp of 31 this week and these are low Lying on the property, they’ll get frost. Covering isn’t a great option due to lay of the land. Should I take a fire ring and start a blaze before bedtime...

I planted 2300 trees last spring with a tree planter. 2/3 were red cedars, the others were a mix of oaks, bald cypress in the wet spots, and several other hardwoods. I'd like to spray them and give them a chance to get some sunlight and take off this year. OUST XP is a good product, and it...

Have a new set of switch going in this spring. I go to church with a habitat guy who does land clearing for a living and he likes Don's stuff better than just standard CIR. Anyone with Real World experience? I know Don can be polarizing, but I'm interested just in the product. Most is going to...

Got some cash burning a hole in my pocket and wanna get another good varmint gun. i have a plain jane TC 223 that works. I also have my 243 cva cascade that I enjoy. But I have a couple sons who are gonna wanna shoot groundhogs and would be interested in a different build. There's a thought to...

Got lucky last week during firearms season in Ohio. We had a buck we've had our eye on for a couple years. He's 5 this year and king of that ridge. I'd hunted for him Monday all day and cams said he was in the food plot at 6:30 when first light was right around 7. Had pics of him in another...

Is there any value to this? We have a crab in the fencerow at work that I picked. They're grape sized. Thought they may be something worthwhile throwing at the edge of a plot and letting them run. Am I wasting my time? I've never grafted and have enough hobbies to keep me busy, so I'm not gonna...

I had a tree nursery tell me to spray Oust XP on the red cedars and hardwoods that we just planted. Said it'll kill the grasses but won't hurt the trees. Anyone have experience with it? These aren't fruit trees, Just wanna kill off the competition for a year or 2 to get them up and growing.

New pond is almost full, and as it started climbing the overflow (18" N12 culvert pipe) I saw a gash in the sidewall of the pipe that allowed water to leak in about 18" down. The pond builder came back, used driveway crack filler tar and a clamshell coupler to get it to stop. It's doing...

Have several acres of "no mans land" that would be good as screen and potential bedding down the road. I have the tractor and the access to a 3 point planter, was thinking 3-0 norway spruce. Would love to some day have thermal cover and it'd be a screen between the road and the pond/big open...

Yesterday was a good one for us. Had family in from out of town and my 9 year old got baptized at church. His idea. and a very proud dad moment... In the afternoon, in spite of the rain and ugly weather, we headed for a box blind. Big doe came thru the oats and stopped for a minute too long...

Hunting in NE Ohio I love it. I generally feel the DNR allows us the tags we need to manage the herd on the land we hunt. We have probably 25 acres of specifically food on the 350 or so acres we hunt. Some are crop fields that get picked, but there's legit food plots there too. We have...