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It all started as a conversation over beers (too many??) with a couple family members. Two of us wanted our own place to hunt and hopefully teach our kids to do the same. The other had never hunted a day in his life! That conversation took place in early 2021 and after almost a year was closed...

I will have to walk around in there this w/end and see if I can see any bedding areas or an abundance of sign. In the past there wasnt much but with all the tinkering and projects we may have changed their patterns.

I listen/hear a lot of the people, same as yall do, preach the perimeter trail and hunting the outside in rather than the interior of your property. Im trying to clear a perimeter trail and use the outside in approach (mostly) and have a question. If you had a rule of thumb, how far in do you...

We had a guy come take a look today, so we'll see what he says. It'd be great if someone wanted at least some of it since we have so much. Otherwise, we plan to figure out how to open up /thin/girdle & squirt off some pockets of it in order to promote better deer habitat. Appreciate all the replies.

Thinning isn't an option for us. We had some Amish come in and take some, but we have a lot. All of it is old, mature trees so doesn't offer much in the way of the low cover and completely shuts out the sun, so the understory is just a desert. My hope is that I'll be able to do a bunch of hack...

Curious about what you decided to do? I came across this post looking for advice on the same thing. We have a couple areas on our land that are all hemlock and offer ZERO benefits for deer. Specifically, I am wondering if anyone has ever done hack and squirt on hemlocks? Not sure if it works...

Following this thread, I ended up buying a GardeProX50. They were on sale and at this point, I mostly run Spy Point, so thought a different camera may yield diff results. So I went through the set-up, formatted the SD card in the camera, new batteries etc. All I keep getting for pictures are the...

Given the lack of success this year we have a few projects in mind to help out next year. So, although the season isnt over, we will start tackling some projects / hunting this w/end. - Just had camp built this year so need to continue cutting, splitting and stacking firewood (OMW to get a new...

We just started our journey, so my response was "any deer is good". Our hope is that we can manage / attract enough deer for the newer hunters to "see" deer while in the stand and for the hunters who have been doing it a couple years to be able to wait for a bigger buck. This being year 2 we...

Oakseeds, Thanks for your response. I'll be buying some supplies this week to better protect them in hopes I can attain the same harvest(s) as I see in your pics.

All, Thank you for all the responses. Odd part is I have 2 pear trees and another apple tree in the same field and none of the leaves are eaten. Very strange to me that it is just the one. No matter the culprit I'll need to get some better protection for my trees and keep whatever is eating it...

I bought a couple of these same trees from Lowes. I planted them this past spring. Can you tell me how long your trees took to produce fruit like that?

Can anyone offer their opinion on what might have happened to this apple tree please? Some type of caterpillar? Deer? Most of the leaves are gone at this point but it isn't dead. New leaves have actually grown since the last time I checked on it.

Haven’t been doing this very long but was pretty excited to accidentally find this one today. Almost threw a tree branch right on him. Quick grabbed the dog and left the area.

Well I went down to our place with every intention of planting. Tried loosening up some of the soil to get started and realized it wasn't meant to be! So, hopefully with the warmer weather it'll thaw a bit this week and I can get back down there. We did have the chainsaw running for a couple of...