Recent content by BuckSutherland

The lakes in the southern half of the state are crowded, polluted, overfished, full of invasive species, dirty, gross, overdeveloped, noisy, etc.... The lake I tried is 350 acres and shaped like a frying pan. Highly prone to overfishing. Most of the lakes down south are boom and then bust...

I think it was nationwide November 14-16. I saw videos about it on youtube a few days after it was over. Also heard they were talking about it on Reddit. I asked Grok on X and it says Costco also likes to run this deal again around the Christmas to New Years time frame. I will probably buy...

When I bought my prime from Costco a couple weeks ago they were running a 3 day flash sale in store. It was not advertised. I was just in the right place at the right time. They were $75 off the listed price at the register. This $262 ribeye became became $187 at check out. I paid $14.27...

I bought a choice grade strip lion from Costco last spring. There is no comparison to the prime graded ribeye. The ribeye blows it out of the water for me, but that's personal preference. The prime ribeye that we bought is probably the best steak I have ever had. I cooked the last ones 5 mins...

Silver continues to run while govts around the world continue to destroy paper money. Went over $61 today. I bought 100 ounces in Sept around $42. Pretty good return for 3 months. I bought 10 shares of UAN today. Probably buy more over the next several months. My NVO and PayPal positions...

Went for a walk on some nearby federal land the day after rifle season closed in MN. This clear cut is about 13 years old. Around 8-9 years ago they went back into the CC with big dozer and flattened all the regen on the outer perimeter of the entire CC. After they flattened and killed the...

Cooked a couple more of my prime ribeye steaks the other day. I had those cut about 1.5" thick. Feel like the richest guy in the world eating on of those. Doesn't get much better. Had some grilled shrimp a few nights ago and grilled pork chops last night. I'm wearing out my pellet grill.

Set my thermal hub house up for my nephew on Friday night on one of the southern MN toilets. He spent the night out there. Zero walleyes caught. I despise fishing in the southern half of MN. Its damn near worthless. 4" of good clear ice.

Drove by one of my friends fields yesterday. Its next to a 4 acres of cattails and tall grass. Its the most pheasants I have seen in many years. There was at least 50-75 birds in the field and more flying back and forth into the cattails. They were scratching hard in the unworked soybean...

I'd think you could plant into the bottom edge of the sand. That entire grassy area looks like a great spot to plant some tamarack as well. I bet they would thrive in that open sun. I see LOTS of rubs on tamaracks. They'd grow quick and help fill in that low area. I see places around me...

North Central MN rifle hunter (wolf country w/ severe winters) This year I saw: 9 deer opening day on my land (1 decent buck that I let walk by an hour into the season) Nothing on day 2 Nothing on day 3 Nothing on day 4 Then I left and went home for 8 days and came back on Wednesday heading...

A few additional pictures that I took on Monday while I put bud caps on my caged cedars and white pines. I have a bunch of additional photos from some gov't land down the road that I want to share as well. Its the reason I revived this thread.

This pic is taken from about the same spot 23 months apart.

Here is the same white pine. Made quite the leap in 23 months. Figure it at least double in size. Went from about 5 to 10 feet tall in two years. Some of my 2019 and 2020 white pines are really growing like crazy now. I bent the tree down to slap on a bud cap just in case we get a really...

Also found this cool bear den. It was 45 degrees out on Sunday. I'm guessing he was still out eating. There was a 3-4" depression in the soil. I beat that old white cedar has been dead a long time. I found several other big cedars blown down that looked like awesome bear dens. Some of the...