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I've seen those night travelers change ranges and switch to daylight bucks during the rut. This is likely to happen if you have a good concentration of does and great cover for them to move about in during daylight. Bucks changing ranges during the rut is well documented through many studies.

I hope they come up with something new for everyone to bitch about.

YES, They were there until I gave them a safer home.

A 12 gauge with dove loads works well for carpenter bees. in the words of Robert Ruark - "use enough gun."

Our local Walmart had Opal the other day.

It depends on how tall and thick the grass is. Mature bucks won't feel safe traveling through it unless they feel like they are hidden from a human at ground level. Unless you get the height and thickness to make them feel secure, you have a butterfly garden instead of cover. Yes, they will...

Food plot species won’t last long before getting choked and/or shaded out. Putting your plot at the edge of tall grass fields works better. However, some really aggressive native forbs like tall partridge pea are tough enough to survive in the field and do provide food.

Very simple - late summer mow a trail where you want deer to walk. Shoot when they walk by, which usually won’t take very long. There has never been a year that I couldnt get a shot at a mature buck at this location.

Those must make your roundhouse kick very effective.

A well designed overhead electric system can generally withstand extreme temps and extreme snow very well. However, when you start getting over a quarter inch of ice, get ready for some trouble in most locations in the south.

Eventually succession will come into play and the next plant/s in line will start to replace the goldenrod. That’s when you will have to start doing something to stall the succession. You are already seeing succession - the annual foxtail has been replaced by the perennial goldenrod. When you...

It is holding up just fine. I used all treated lumber and covered the sides with used metal. I’ve passed some 150s at this place and passed a 165 this last season. This is where the big freak was that I was hunting. I’ve shot 2 old deer there. Pics are shown below. That first one was blind...

Look in the land tour section for my "Creek Bluff" thread. I just repaired all of the old pics so you can see the tower blind build. Enjoy.

I'm bumping up this old thread for someone who wanted to see my tower blind build. I haven't updated this in a long time, because I don't want to keep up two different land tour threads, so I just update the other one. The tower at the other place is similar to this one but not exactly the...

Let’s get our heads together and think about it,,,,,