A few habitat pics I thought you might enjoy
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S.T.Fanatic
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-22 actual temp here this morning. It seems like for us the second week of Feb. the deer really start to drop. Might be a bit earlier with the sub zero temps we have been having for the past 10 days or so. I won't start looking until the first week in March anyway. Id rather they drop where I can find them instead of pushing them onto the neighboring properties. My bean plot has been podless for about 2 weeks. I'm sure there was enough that fell to the ground to keep them for another week and there was also some brassica in there but with the lac of rain it didn't put on much for growth.
Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
My hinge cutting has slowed down a little the last few days.......
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Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
That looks like Sandbur's neighborhood. Or Natty Bumpo's. 
Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
That looks like Sandbur's neighborhood. Or Natty Bumpo's.
Yes, they are tougher men than I am to take this kind of thing so often.
BenAllgood
5 year old buck +
I had planned to make a trip up there the beginning of this week to frost seed, but I think I might have died. I want to know about that cane. What is that?
Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
Ben, it’s native cane that I transplanted at my house from a farm my dad owns on Sulphur Creek in Adair County. It gets about 8 or 9 feet tall. I’m going to try to get an area of it started at my farm someday.
BenAllgood
5 year old buck +
I like that alot. It seems like it would make a great screen. Does it grow fast? I'm guessing it's more of a low lying area plant?
Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
It spreads by rhizomes. I wouldn't say that it spreads fast, but you could place a plant about every 4 feet and probably have it fill in fair in a few years. Since it is a grass, you could spray it with 24D to kill woody and weed competition and help it.
It does grow in low lying areas, but not really wet spots. In the early days of KY it covered vast areas - hence the name - "Cane Tucky." Settlers turned most of the cane breaks into farming fields. It was also desirable to get rid of it, because Indians could hide so well in it and attack. The places you will see it now is along the edges of creek bottoms. This is a good place for it to grow, because it can get enough sunlight and farming has to leave at least a little space at the creek edges.
A few years ago, Roundstone Native Seed company in KY told me that they were going to sell plugs. I believe the recommended spacing was 4 feet, and they did mention the 24D. I never talked with them again about it, so I don't know if they are doing it or not.
Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
I thought I should probably do an update for all the turkey junkies on the forum. My work lately has been in my oak trees which you can read about in my oak thread. And, I also set 25 little chinkapins and have done some other miscellaneous work.
Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
As I posted in another thread earlier today, my cousin and I had a wonderful morning by doubling on two KY toms.
We went into an area very early before daylight about 150 yards from where I felt the turkeys would be roosted. I had them coming toward me Saturday morning, but some hens walked in front of them and that was the end of the hunt. I figured the same thing would happen this morning, but they came off the roost and came literally running to my box call. We didn't see any hens today - just 4 big toms. It was what I would call "textbook" which doesn't happen much with me. I usually have to work much harder and longer....
Cousins bird: 23 lbs, 11 inch beard, both spurs 1 1/8 inches.
My bird: 22 1/4 lbs, 11 inch beard, one spur 1 inch and the other 1 1/8 inch.
Wet turkey pictures are never very good, but here they are anyway:
And this is our photographer - the only person in the community not still laying in bed....
Tomorrow morning I'm going after the Patterson-Gimlin Bird. Wish me luck.
We went into an area very early before daylight about 150 yards from where I felt the turkeys would be roosted. I had them coming toward me Saturday morning, but some hens walked in front of them and that was the end of the hunt. I figured the same thing would happen this morning, but they came off the roost and came literally running to my box call. We didn't see any hens today - just 4 big toms. It was what I would call "textbook" which doesn't happen much with me. I usually have to work much harder and longer....
Cousins bird: 23 lbs, 11 inch beard, both spurs 1 1/8 inches.
My bird: 22 1/4 lbs, 11 inch beard, one spur 1 inch and the other 1 1/8 inch.
Wet turkey pictures are never very good, but here they are anyway:
And this is our photographer - the only person in the community not still laying in bed....
Tomorrow morning I'm going after the Patterson-Gimlin Bird. Wish me luck.
blueKYstream
5 year old buck +
Congratulations on some great birds!
Tree Spud
5 year old buck +
As I posted in another thread earlier today, my cousin and I had a wonderful morning by doubling on two KY toms.
We went into an area very early before daylight about 150 yards from where I felt the turkeys would be roosted. I had them coming toward me Saturday morning, but some hens walked in front of them and that was the end of the hunt. I figured the same thing would happen this morning, but they came off the roost and came literally running to my box call. We didn't see any hens today - just 4 big toms. It was what I would call "textbook" which doesn't happen much with me. I usually have to work much harder and longer....
Cousins bird: 23 lbs, 11 inch beard, both spurs 1 1/8 inches.
My bird: 22 1/4 lbs, 11 inch beard, one spur 1 inch and the other 1 1/8 inch.
Wet turkey pictures are never very good, but here they are anyway:
And this is our photographer - the only person in the community not still laying in bed....
Tomorrow morning I'm going after the Patterson-Gimlin Bird. Wish me luck.
Looks like a good day with good friends!
Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
Well my turkey season is over after taking my second tom today. This is the one I had been hunting for two years and was the dominant bird on my place.
I didn't go out until about 1:00 PM in the afternoon and spotted him from my deer blind 300 yards away. He was with two hens and another tom that was laying down. Two more toms came up toward him and he immediately jumped them, and they took off like lightning.
I saw the two hens start moving slowly in the direction I was hoping they would go. I had a spot set up 80 yards from them. I came down out of the blind and made my way through a native grass field to get into position. They couldn't see me, and I couldn't see them. After I got to my spot I just waited. In 10 minutes the two hens passed me, but the tom was not behind them. I took out my box call and made 3 clucks and one soft yelp. In about 30 seconds I saw his head come up about 80 yards away and he was headed straight for me.
I got the gun in position and let him close to 38 yards. The rest is history. I fell really blessed to have such a great turkey season.
Beard = 12+ inches
Spurs = 1 was 1 1/4 and the other broken half off
Weight = 23.3 lbs
I didn't go out until about 1:00 PM in the afternoon and spotted him from my deer blind 300 yards away. He was with two hens and another tom that was laying down. Two more toms came up toward him and he immediately jumped them, and they took off like lightning.
I saw the two hens start moving slowly in the direction I was hoping they would go. I had a spot set up 80 yards from them. I came down out of the blind and made my way through a native grass field to get into position. They couldn't see me, and I couldn't see them. After I got to my spot I just waited. In 10 minutes the two hens passed me, but the tom was not behind them. I took out my box call and made 3 clucks and one soft yelp. In about 30 seconds I saw his head come up about 80 yards away and he was headed straight for me.
I got the gun in position and let him close to 38 yards. The rest is history. I fell really blessed to have such a great turkey season.
Beard = 12+ inches
Spurs = 1 was 1 1/4 and the other broken half off
Weight = 23.3 lbs
blueKYstream
5 year old buck +
You don't mess around putting them down! Congratulations on a great Spring season! I've only been out one day and had two birds hang up at 50 and 100 yards. They both ended up having another longbeard (or two birds) sprint in and chase them off. Talk about a bunch of cock blocks!
Merle Hawggard
5 year old buck +
Very nice Steve. I believe you're correct on bigger the bird longer to load.
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