Recent content by j-bird

I can't speak for my entire state.....but I know on my place turkey numbers have increased over the past few years. It used to be fairly rare to see a turkey and now we see them fairly often. I don't hunt them....but my boy does. He has taken a bird the past few years off the place...

Interesting place. Because every place is different and my experience probably is very different than your (your sat photos show more trees than I have in the entire county block (square mile) of my place). So, just some general thoughts based on my own hard headedness and beating my own...

Thank you! Having a land tour type of post is wonderful to not only share your own struggles and success, but even to simply document things. I never remember what species of apple I planted or what year it was planted or the like..... As I get older it all just runs together...

I appreciate all the well wishes..... She is doing really well and we have our last 5 radiation treatments this week. Then, if all goes well......we wait. Hopefully we wait for a long time, but it's anybody's guess. The type of cancer she has, there is no such thig as "full...

Been a long time since I have posted. Life gets in the way. I have 3 of the 4 kids graduated from college with the last one being a senior this year. I’m a grandpa now - my little buddy is now 18 months old and has allowed a different person to surface. My kids ask me where that person...

So I will tell a funny story on myself….. the other night we had salad with dinner here at home and I put some French dressing on mine. I took a big bite and I asked what was different with the salad because it was so spicy! I didn’t take another bite and just tossed it away. Only...

I have a little JD790. Big enough to do what I really need to do.....not big enough for me to do something really stupid!

So I have done some digging and again I am not a turkey person so if I sound stupid...well, it's because I am! If I score my boys bird the way I read - it comes out to almost 67 (24.2 lbs, 9.5" beard, 1.25"/1.125" spurs). I just am not sure what a "book" turkey scores..... I wasn't able to...

My boy was able to get one over the weekend. I am not a turkey hunter....I have enough bad habits as it is. First turkey off of our place. We have been seeing more and more of them but after chasing for a few years...he finally tracked one down.

Had an exciting weekend.... my boy took the first turkey off our place since we have owned it (20 years+). It's not a big bird, but it is a tom.

Over the holiday weekend I saw first hand how the spring creeps north....at least to the midwest. We traveled by car from central Indiana, thru KY, TN and stopping in Atlanta. It just got greener and greener as we went....and got more and more depressing as we came north toward home....but...

No. People suck!

Its far more difficult to tell without the leaves.... I thought it looked like walnut as well..... If it is a walnut it is big enough where you should find at least traces of the nuts and hulls around the base. I always tell folks to mark the tree and then wait until it leafs out and try to...

My place grows black walnut like weeds. Great for timber...not so great for deer. I have had 2 timber harvests (both select cuts) thus far. The first was to remove a bunch of big "junk". My place was high graded a long time ago and the crap they left behind needed to go. So we...

Leave the tops unless you HAVE to remove them. They won't last nearly as long as you may think, and they help add some ground level cover while the understory responds to the increased sunlight. Dragging them around tends to only lead to damaging other trees. If you need to move some to...