Recent content by Obie

All the cover around me is some kind of invasive. Privet, bhs, mfr, autumn olive, Bradford pear..the list go's on. The area isn't a forever property, it will be absorbed by the housing development in 20 years. If I don't buy the 80 around me I will probably be surrounded in 10. I won't...

Here are 2 of the mature buck encounters out of multiple this season. The first never came close enough, I changed that by making a brush line they have to come around that brings them to 25 yards from the barn. (We only blind hunt here to put zero pressure on the deer. Access from the farm...

I've been experimenting with black locust because it grows everywhere on my place and i would rather use it than kill it if i can. I only did a small area of hinging and a small area of clear cuts last year and had multiple deer beds and rubs everywhere in both areas. This year I'm slowly...

This is first year switchgrass, frost seeded last winter into bean stubble with some browse pockets. The short stuff is cave in rock and the tall stuff is rc big rock, im throughly impressed with the growth with zero spraying or mowing. I seeded wild crabs, ash, soft maple helicopters and box...

Thanks for the replies. I've been experimenting with black locust suckering and producing fantastic cover and gets browsed fairly hard the first year after a clear cut. My Norways have escaped browse but some white pine and loblolly have gotten a snip. The middle of my back field is very wet and...

How were they early in life? What size did you plant? Looking for more shrubby cover while my spruce and pine get some size to them.

How many bh sprouted from seed? I just cleared half an acre of black locust and took out 4 giant berry producers and am curious how many will sprout.

I just placed an order for 50 alders from coldstream because I remember seeing a post from Scott bishop on Michigan sportsman forum where he said that's where he got his. I'm not a member over there yet so I figured I'd ask if anyone here has any of his or any experienced with coldstreams recent...

I just placed an order for 50 alders from coldstream because I remember seeing a post from Scott bishop on Michigan sportsman forum where he said that's where he got his. I'm not a member over there yet so I figured I'd ask if anyone here has any of his or any experienced with coldstreams recent...

The south east corner( top left on the who property view with dark lines) will be corn with beans inside, corn along the western property line that used to be ag, and I'm thinking corn surrounding the clover plot in front of the house up to the house almost in corn also. I've got multiple...

I've had 100 ideas about this farm. The first year just had random sorghum screens as you can see on the full property view and some good clover and rye plantings. Seemed to work, we had multiple encounters with good deer, until the corn came off that is. The second year I had done anything, I...

I will be doing what you are thinking thinking winter. We have finally closed on the farm and I'm itching to improve it. I've got enough cover for one or two doe groups on around 20 acres.

I do not, this coming year should be beans. The corn stayed on until the last week of November, multiple big buck sightings with all the corn surrounding for cover. I dont doubt that the corn being a great post rut food source on one of the least pressured properties around was helping me. I...

I did that before we took that section out of ag, but the plan is to leave it standing all winter. Cover and food with the corn, beans because it's just a powerful late season draw.

I have a pinch in that plot, but the bucks didn't follow the script. I'm hoping with the corn planted the way I drew it, they will feel comfortable going past the barn and not being in view of the house. To be fair, 2 of those encounters were after I was tagged out. It's such a low pressure spot...