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    Deer bedding cover

    I hunt the other side of LOZ in Morgan Co. We have 90 acres. 88 of it is timber. We have one plot that's about an acre and a couple other small ones that I keep in clover. The "large" plot has 3 pinch points across it. I've always had doe and yearling bucks going through it. Over the past...
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    CVA Optima V2 Review

    Mine is a few years old. Unfortunate that they're having this issue. Sounds like they need to send some folks over to Spain and get their assembly issues sorted out.
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    CVA Optima V2 Review

    I shoot an optima v2. Love it. Powerbelts were accurate in it, but after having the bullets come apart twice in 100lb does, I switched to Hornaday SST and not had an issue with clean pass through. I've shot 2 white hot pellets in mine since I got it and it's holding a good group at 100...
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    Plot size???

    I'll dig through my photos. I know I have some of the plot construction but don't know if I have any of the edge feathering. If you google "edge feathering for wildlife" you're going to get a ton of resources. I honestly used my brush cutter more than anything knocking back right at the edge...
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    Christmas Gift Ideas

    I have one for my 170 and one for my 251. They're fool proof. I'll run a tank of gas or two through the saw, and then I'll pop my vice in a stump and make a couple passes on each tooth.
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    Plot size???

    Our property has a 1.5 acre plot, a square 1/2 acre and I just made a 1/4 acre plot last year. The square shaped plot is absolutely useless for hunting. It's wide open and has a pretty mature canopy so there isn't a lot of undergrowth. The deer won't go into it during daylight. The 1.5 acre...
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    Chainsaw safety wear PPE

    PPE is just like wearing a harness in the tree stand. I owe it to my family to stay healthy and provide for them. Bleeding out because of an accident in the woods or piles of medical bills because of a momentary lapse in judgement don't help with that. I have the Stihl woodcutter set that has...
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    Rain! Finally!

    Kids are off school Thursday and Friday so we're getting our last camping trip in for the year with some bonus bow hunting for me. I had 8lbs of pork shoulder on the smoker that I moved to the oven so I could get everything on the patio cleaned up and put away. Now the house smells like a...
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    Rain! Finally!

    It's just getting to St. Louis. My property is in Morgan County north of Laurie. How much have you guys gotten so far?
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    Question for drone users

    This is a pretty solid overview. Laws do vary by state, but overall, I could fly my airplane at 500' above ground over 99% of hunting grounds because it's considered "sparsely populated". When I was building flight time to get my career going I did quite a bit of flying for real estate...
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    Durability of legacy hunting camps

    My dad and I always hunted public land, and had a couple small leases over the years. My father in law brought me into his lease, and their "camp". I was shocked when I brought food, and the others just did their own thing. Went to the same spots, etc. Few of them came up to do work in the...
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    2022 Fall seed prices

    North side of 70 in "Old town". Just behind the QT on the right side. If you make the drive go across the street to Hobo's at the American Legion. Fantastic fried chicken!
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    2022 Fall seed prices

    For a somewhat local comparison, this is what I spent at the St. Peters Co-op: Cereal Rye: $25.90/50lb bag Forage Oats: $40/50lb bag (bob oats are a little less) Ladino Clover: $5.25/lb Crimson: $2.40/lb Austrian Winter Peas: $.90/lb Purple Top: $2.50/lb Forage Rape: $1.10/lb
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    Suggestions for marking herbicide spraying areas. Foam markers , dyes or tire tracts

    This. According to my foreflight app, my phone's accuracy is 4 meters. It wouldn't surprise me to see that the systems used on the high end tractors are also utilizing WAAS to improve their accuracy.
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    Sprayer thats not a POS

    I had good luck with a tow behind from northern tool. Unfortunately that one was stolen. I also have a cheapie 15 gallon spot sprayer from the local farm and home store that cost like $60. A little teflon tape on the drain plug threads took care of leaking. I run water through the sprayer to...
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    Broadcast winter wheat or winter rye?

    It's interesting how different deer will eat different foods. When I was in northern Missouri near the Iowa border they would hammer winter rye. Now hunting south of 70, and they haven't touched the stuff the last few years. We've also had mild enough winters that clover seems to stay green...
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    Has anyone remodeled a mobile home?

    I lived in an older one about 15 years ago for a while. The floor was starting to rot out and everything else in it was starting to have problems. Trying to fix it was fun because most of it was specialized for mobile homes and you paid for it.
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    Who is your least favorite author or "T.V. Hunter"

    Midwest whitetail did a good job I think. "Chasing November", especially the older seasons, were really, really well done. They don't just show the climb into the tree, the shot, and the grip and grin. They'll show misses, they'll show unsuccessful sits, and they'll show deer doing deer stuff...
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    National Tree Stand Museum???

    My dad is a welder by trade. Up until a couple years ago we were still using a couple stands he built in the early to mid 90s when he worked at a ship yard and had access to tons of bar stock scrap and welded up about 50 of them for himself and friends during slow periods at work. They were a...
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    How do your plots affect the "Huntability" of your property?

    When we first bought our property, It had about 1.25 acres of plot on a total of 90 acres. First two years, our oaks produced fantastic mast and there was no competing. Last year, no acorns. Few deer. They were on adjacent pieces that had plots. This year, I focused primarily on opening up...
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