Recent content by chiaj144

Planted Make'em Horny blend 3 weeks ago on a first year plot. They're coming along pretty well in the one plot and were a disaster in another. The buckwheat, oats and pea plots are doing pretty well as well. They've been in the ground for about 2 weeks. I threw some rye out over the mixed plot...

I roll then spray mine. I have pretty good germination for 6 days.

Here's where my swamp plot is at. This was grown in with weeds and small trees a couple weeks ago. We bush hogged it, sprayed it and I went back in June 24th and threw some buckwheat out. My soil sample isn't back yet but I wanted to get something down before it was too late. I think this will...

The rye was planted about a month too late last year so it was only about 5-6" in most spots when I mowed it. I raked it pretty clean before spraying it and planting the buckwheat. There were a few grasses in the plot near the top of the hill. I'm just learning so this is all new to me. I didn't...

I planted some buckwheat into last years rye. I cut the rye as low as I could, sprayed it then hand raked it. Through the buckwheat down and rolled it. The first pic is a week in and the second pic is 4 days after that with some decent rain. I did add some more buckwheat in one spot that was...

I would also be worried about the prevailing wind direction and line of sight. If you travel that road with any wind other than North or South you're blowing out half the property plus any deer that can see you walk down that trail from both sides. I would use the property edges at all costs...

The current travel patterns will fit in with two of the plots. The third plot that I want to put in on the south side would be to draw the deer into a spot that would be easier to hunt. Right now they move NE or SW and that makes them hard to hunt as that movement is basically from one corner to...

This pic should be bigger.

Sorry about the file. I forgot to mention that I will be dropping and hinge cutting trees along the trail plots. I probably won’t bother with the South one until I can establish some kind of screening from the road. The East one will also have some barricades heading East-West to serve as pinch...

I plan to hunt over the plots once in a while if the wind is right and probably only late in the season when the snow is on the ground. I was blowing one bedding area out for the last few years from my main hunting spot. I didn't think the deer were bedding right beside the main corner of the 4...

I have road access from three side and realize that I need to set the property up to access stands from these roads. Wind is mostly out of the West, South/West.

I've been hunting this block of woods for 7 years. When we first moved here I shot a decent 8 pointer my first sit. Second sit I passed a nice 10 pointer (wanted my son to get a chance). Every year we were seeing less and less deer on the property. I grew up hunting around AG fields and found...

Were they coming in from a higher elevation? In the morning your thermals could be getting pulled up hill right into them.

Hello everyone. I just picked up 94 acres of land in Southern Ontario. I've been hunting this property for 7 years and now I can finally start to make some improvements to it. When I first moved in there were deer everywhere. I shot a nice little 8 pointer my first sit, passed a 10 pointer my...