Recent content by BenA

I opened a spot to see a travel corridor from a ladder stand in a cedar. This is facing north. There's an east-west major trail that is choked down by a ditch that cuts up from the draw below. To the west is bedding I created through edge feathering along the draw and old field transition line...

The basal spraying through an EQIP program to remove invasives and unwanted midstory trees seems to have been at least 90% successful. The trees sprayed are crumbling and falling apart. I found some persimmon saplings starting to come up in my old field areas. The farmer planted corn...

Wild bergamot, aka bee balm has a nice mint smell. But, that honeysuckle smell @TreeDaddy mentioned sure does bring back some fond memories. We would pick the flowers and suck out the nectar.

The sensor on the Tactacams is a trip wire sensor. Picture a straight line going from one side to the other of the frame straight across the middle.

I was thinking of it more from a pressure aspect than a weapon one. With any season that long, they are pressured. It doesn't matter what weapon you're carrying, it's the presence of people I would like to see less of. I think does can be controlled in a short firearm season if they aren't...

Have you seen any of the work by guys like Lance Krueger? He gets really close (bow range) to some giant bucks and uses a pop up ground blind with Ozonics to do so on many occasions. What are some photographers whose work you like?

I found this one yesterday doing some edge feathered bedding. We have watched him for the past 2 years. He only has this one side. I was thinking he was injured and would grow out the other side, but he hasn't.

I have a good bit of blackberry coming up in my old field areas. Not too much right now, but I can see that I will have to spray some of it next year. The deer seem to like bedding up against it. I was surprised to see very little browse pressure. It also looks different than the blackberry or...

I'm not really sure. It seems like they're in pockets. I know there are good numbers in the county I'm in. The area is a mix of hay and timber with a good bit of topography. There's very scattered agriculture, but it's not really the ag area of the county. I did bump one of the same hens in...

Looks like chickweed.

No. I didn't even bring a gun or buy a license this year. I've got a bunch of work to do. I do love turkey hunting, but I don’t have enough to where I'd feel good about hunting them right now.

I jumped 2 hens in my old field areas today. They had to be nesting or getting ready to. I walked by one a few times without seeing her. She must have been pretty safe feeling in there. I looked all over around where she flew up, and couldn't find a nest though. They can hide easy in this stuff...

Make our prison system inmates work. Setup manufacturing there. Add in quality control that aren't inmates.

This year and last, I'm in my timber trying to provide better food and cover and steering movements to my plots and by my stands. Gone are the days when I used to plant over 20 food plots each spring and then again for the fall. I enjoyed it, but it was a huge time suck.

Do you a mix it yourself or buy it pre-mixed? I've been using the Stihl pre-mix, but I'm about to go through a bunch of fuel.