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    Sitka 40% Off Code

    Natty, anything you like from them for late season stalk hunting? Like december / january on decent days. PA opened up sunday hunting, so making a good go of it this year. Bought a new to me flintlock too. Try to have a white one and brown / camo one.
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    Chestnut Crab

    The best pickle in the jar is the first one. trailman looks like a good one. Never ate one, but got 2 trailmans planted and topworked a tree this year with it.
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    How many pounds of brassica seed?

    While those are cosnidered small seeds. Some of those seeds are like 4 times the volume of another. I have never done a full rootcrop / brassica plot alone. I always mix with clovers, peas, and grains. However, I an quite surprised 1 lb / acre of those small seeds can do. Whats the plan...
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    Home yard pollinator plants

    Echinaccia / coneflowers are good too. Rake / dethatch your lawn in august / septpember, then frost seed ladino or meddterrain clover. There's a variety of oregano that grows in lawns naturally, dark leaves / purple fuzzy head flowers. Bees go nuts over it in the spring. 1/2 acre of clover...
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    I couldn’t kill any grass with clethodim

    Look up yellow nutsedge and mace sedge. Broomsedge is another one. The leaves have steps vs flat n smooth. Where the leaf node is more distinct than grass in triangular shape. Sedge often grows in areas where its wet long enough for most other things to die. Sedge hunkers down in root...
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    Chestnut Crab

    I got a chestnut on m111 at home. Growing well on year 2. No rust, no signs of scab yet. Hard to tell insects resistance. I spray 3-4 times a year malathion mostly. Probably be good to have around for sure. However, I would have kerr around before I would chestnut. Got 2 at home, 2 at...
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    A DIY in truck meat cooler

    sams club has those big igloos for $90 or so. Just cover it with a blanket and some of that mylar bubble swrap insulation at home depot. I do frozen fish all the time fron north carolina to NY. Ice packs alot better than ice itself. Ice melts and makes a wet mess of things. A single nrgy...
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    Trail Maintenance - Mower Advice

    I do my home's 2 acre or so area and about another 2 acres of snowmobile trail between my club and hte neighbors about 20-30ft wide 3/4 mile long with the swisher 42" rough cut mower. IT does the job. Paid $500 for it in 2020. Briggs motor is splash lubricated so it doesn't last a long life...
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    Fertilizer and spray spending amounts

    $2 a pound in ny is not unreasonable. Walmart has mulch on clearance $1 a 2 cu ft bag. Bought 60. Tax write-offs..........
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    Crabapple timeline

    Nice. I peel mine
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    Update - Crab CAR

    Did a single spray of bonide copper spray. Surprised how well golden delicious, pristine, and droptine did. Really filled the tank with copper to control peach leaf curl on a few saturn peaches.
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    Apple Math

    fried apple pies? new to me.
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    Unusual Grafting Situation

    Had a few failed grafts this year. Did a few chip bud or T-bud, and a few tongue and whips. Put chip below last good bud. They worked. Dont go by most desired scion, go by best quality scion.
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    Henry Single Shot front sight replacement

    One side tight, other side loose. Take vernier claipes and measure, usually right side is wider machined than left. Nice smooth taps. MAybe hamer down lightly on dovetails before replacing. Get sights good use locite bushing retainer. Much much easier if you already have dovetail. Had to...
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    Shooting range

    2017 muzzleloader season in NY. Shot a deer, all other idiots staring at down deer. Bigger idiot, me, reloaded muzzleloader. Idiots staring at 2 down deer now.... 2014 at nys cpatial district trap shoot meet, 300 guys shooting. Shot 24 so far, 25th shot doe is on th right side of field...
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