Recent content by BenA

If you're going to maintain it with fire, I'd go in as soon as possible and start clearing firebreaks to where you can maintain them in some way annually. See which ones make sense to plant with food and which ones that you'll keep mowed to disk. That should keep you plenty busy for the rest of...

Don't go hating on me because of this or think that I'm some Biden supporter (I voted for Trump 3 times now). But, the University of Delaware has done some pretty good deer research (fawn predation was pretty interesting). They are not a community college. They're a land grant research...

I didn't have great luck with buckwheat in the deep south (Louisiana), but iron and clay cowpeas worked great for me in both Louisiana and south Mississippi. The cowpeas put on a lot of biomass and are viny which shades the soil well. They start browning down in early fall. I've had some plots...

That's a tough one Steve. You have an awesome setup, and it's hard to mess with success like you've had. It seems like what you have now is a hunting setup where you can take advantage of a reliable bed to food transition. I don't know for certain, but it seems like you're in an area that's more...

I think in those cases, they had reasonable cause to conduct the surveillance on those particular homes or businesses. I don't think they should be allowed to just conduct surveillance anytime or anywhere without cause. It's the cause that needs justifying.

I understand your thought process on this and want to keep people from breaking game laws. But, I also want my privacy and not allow government to control my personal freedoms. Knee jerk reaction, I would like to allow game wardens to fly a drone over properties to stop poaching. But, I also...

I've had hot air balloons fly right above the tree line while I was hunting. I've had them skim the water in my pond outside my back door. The air use above our property needs to be regulated better.

And, each person hunting over it has to pay. $50 for residents and $100 for non-residents. That includes people that don't even have to ordinarily get a hunting license like kids and non-resident landowners.

First fawn on camera for my place. Judging by its size and previous doe pics, it should be less than a week old. That would put her being bred the first couple days of November.

First fawn on camera for my place. Judging by its size and previous doe pics, it should be less than a week old. That would put her being bred the first couple days of November.

I don't see where he broke any laws? Law enforcement said he didn't own the property. They found out he did own it. That should have been a real easy one that never made it to the ticket stage. Evidence showed the bait was there in July and gone when checked. The soil samples showed some traces...

When I hunted in Avoyelles parish during the early 2000's, which according to last year's harvest statistics only had 9 kills, turkeys were abundant there. More than that were killed in a 30,000 acre area opening weekend. I can remember hearing that many some mornings. I don't know what...

I don't think it's much of a success story unless there was a MAJOR die off before mandatory harvest reporting. In one season during the early 2000's I killed 2 turkeys in one of those parishes that is only showing 9 killed this year. Either the numbers are WAY off, or we almost had a complete...

Meanwhile, in Louisiana.

I agree with this completely. Most of my time is spent on managing the native trees/plants. I have a lot more acreage of that than food plots, and the deer spend more time in those areas than my planted food. Rosettes of forbs are browsed on winter through early spring providing lots of...