Recent content by BenA

Yeah, I never bought into the deer/auto insurance conspiracy. I guess it's because I see what the insurance companies do in instances where they are paying out more. They do targeted rate increases for specific areas or tack on rider policies. Hurricane insurance comes to mind. I can see them...

That's what I do. Those draws are my sanctuary. I can't hunt inside them without busting deer out. So, I draw them up out of there with food and hunt the corridors.

I planted some Durana that was in a pasture/plot, now converted to large yard. It's going on 18 years now with just mowing. There are spots with more grass than clover, and some with more clover than grass, but there's still large areas of Durana growing. I think if it were to be overseeded each...

Durana clover does well mowed fairly low. It will die back in the heat, but it bounces back.

Just reminded me that I need to go spray down our clothes with permethrin.

It's because it's a known disease that we already know what to expect in the long run. We dealt with it a lot in the south in the 70s-80s. You don't hear a great deal about it anymore down here because of the immunity. It's migrating north due to some factor like global warming or some other...

They'll bed in those draws like that. Here was a bed in November in the very bottom. There were several rubs around it. They can smell everything coming from the tops and can see what's coming from up at the edges. I think they'll bed where they feel safe, and away from danger. At this area, the...

Hard for me to tell. I need to go back through my prior years. I think he might be only 4 if it's the one I'm thinking of.

I like big 8s

I like big 8s

I'm talking about even the rural areas close to me. I grew up an hour from where I live, and it's still rural. My mom still lives there. They see deer every now and then, but mostly at night. The people down here shoot a deer just because they hardly ever see them like it's a novelty.

I'd love to do that, but the kind of hunting I'm looking for isn't great anywhere close to me. That's why I had to buy 10.5 hours away. Besides, my kids love the road trip. They think of it as a vacation. Don't get me wrong. I'd love to have the hunting my Kentucky property has within an hour or...

I definitely see the allure of buying out of state to get to the kind of deer you want. I live in south Louisiana. If I had to buy property within 30 minutes of where I live for trophy bucks, I would have to spend millions of dollars for a hundred acres. If I didn't care about trophies, I could...

I wouldn't be looking at specific states as much as I would neighborhoods in states. I'd want to be in a neighborhood that consistently produced top end bucks. Even different areas of counties can have a stark difference dependent on the neighbors. Finding the area in a county where bucks can...

I'd love to be able to kill johnsongrass and never have it again. As long as there's seed or plants near me, or animals bringing it it, I'll have more of it if the conditions are right. The same goes for sericea lespedeza. I'd love to be done with it forever. What I can do is minimize it or keep...