Recent content by Bowsnbucks

A question for those who know & have done it ....... How do you spear fish through ice? What's the tactic?

Congrats, Natty!! That bigger buck is a trophy you'll savor for years to come. Your habitat /food plot work is paying off. Great season. Great spot to set up a stand too. I can see why bucks would make annual scrapes in that pinch point.

Not everyone from here in the East is looking to tag a 130". If I were to get a license for a Midwest state - or anywhere else - I'd ask what the suggested age / rack size is that they want taken. But that's me. There are slob hunters everywhere. We get imported hunters here too that want to...

Variations of pump-and-dump. Stir up lots of excitement, convince the herds to join the exciting, upward rush ....... then sell quick at a huge gain.

Beetles mating in your 2nd pic is an ugly sight, isn't it?? More pests for the following year. Japs and some caterpillars are our biggest problems. I think it was either Appleman or maybe Professor Kent on here (haven't seen either of them posting for some time) that said once your trees get...

I think blue spruce gets some kind of rust fungus or blight. (Ethan???) I don't even see them at local landscaping places anymore. Here, I've noticed for years that pines lose their lower branches as they age. We have loads of white pine at camp. By the time they get about a 4" diameter trunk...

I remember you saying in another post that some of your trees were untouched. That's a good thing, I guess. Some of our varieties don't seem to get clobbered either, but I made no notes on which ones insects didn't seem to bother. I ought to document those for future reference.

Deer here don't hammer spruce as a food item, they just nibble the youngest shoot tips. But it can set the trees back on growth. Maybe we have enough other food items here, since deer don't eat white pines or pitch pines - but they will rub pitch pines big-time. It's one of their favorite rub...

I'm in Pa. Camp is in the North-Central mountains. White pine is the dominant native pine here. We have stands of pitch pine in various places too - but not nearly as common as white pine. We sprout WP like weeds here - in fact, if we didn't pull out many of the seedlings, we'd be overrun by...

I'm sure Darcy is happy on those outings! Nice brace of birds. That mowing overreach sucks. I'd have lost my shit too. Can't re-do time lost. I hope your willows pop back up for you. Arbs grow fairly fast, if you have to re-plant a few. "Don't mow" signs are a good idea - IF they can read...

Nice firewood pile, SD! Nothing like piles of BTU's at the ready. Burning off those lbs. too - all good. Just a FWIW here ...... I've been stacking the corners of my firewood rows like you did - alternating layers' directions - between 4 ft. and 5 ft. high for years. No blow-outs ever. The...

He's a dandy, Brian!! Big and mature. What did he weigh - if you had access to a scale?

In a way, it's kind of a bummer when we run out of room for more fruit trees!! It's work (but fun work) to plant, cage, prune & train them, but it's really cool to get those first crops of apples, crabs, pears, persimmons .... or whatever. Our biggest problem in the early years after planting...

Here in northern Pa. mountains, the opposite is true. Deer will nip spruce seedlings, but not touch pines for food. If we don't cage our spruce when we plant them, they get eaten down while smaller, or rubbed to death from about 3 ft. in height up to about 10 or 12 ft. tall. We don't protect...

Just a question, not doubting what you're saying here. We have lots of white pine at camp, that throw off seed and hatch many seedlings. How do they not get diplodia when they hatch at the edge of big white pine patches? Or were you just referring to nursey stock seedlings? (I never heard of...