Recent content by SwampCat

I use camera surveys more as a trend than actual numbers. Your number of unique bucks indicate your number of does, so you dont really need to identify each doe. I conduct the survey mid sept - before most hunting seasons or acorn fall. They are fairly consistent year to year now, so if they are...

I hear drones are well used for spotting turkeys in open country states too - like kansas, etc Alaska has a no hunt law on days that you fly. Maybe that is where these drone laws need to go. I fly my drone occasionally around my property just to look around - see how much water is in the duck...

Place I buy my quail from has flight pens 75’ long and 25’ wide - maybe 10 or 12’ high. Always hawks and owls sitting around. They will swoop down on he flight pen - something to see 2000 quail all get up at once. The owls are the worst. He said they catch the quail through the net and eat...

This is a mulching job I had done on a 40’ wide by mile long fence right of way. Mostly 2” to 10” green ash. Any tree 6” or larger, I had him push the trunk to the side to cut into firewood or lumber and mulch the tops and limbs. This was one of the thicker areas. On This amount of chips...

Not too sure trigger happy neighbors arent better than that😎

I think a mulcher would work great. Will still need to spray gly maybe once a year

This is what my mulched trails look like after 18 months

I get some deer that really like a feeder - I aint never had one try to hump it.😎

I had about three miles of trail like that cleared with a mulcher. Most of it was in ground with few rocks and no stumps at all remained after mulching - just chips. No brush to contend with after clearing. About a 1/4 mile was upland with some rock and there were half a dozen 3” tall stumps I...

Each method has its pros and cons. A mulcher is going to leave a stumps in rocky ground. Unless you want a sure enough road with ditches and culverts - a dozer pushing a trail through thick, brushy areas is going to remove topsoil when trying to push smaller brush and trees. Since a dozer will...

There are already places that do that. My son has checked into it for elephant tusks. I think he said about $1500 for a pair of 50 lbers and hard to tell they arent real. No shipping to get them home, no cost for dip and pack, no permits. Just take pictures of the tusks - or really, I think most...

I have a lot of low ground. Digging a stump in a trail will leave you a low, wet spot forever. Fine on upland. I cant build a road up in my bottom ground, in a flowage easement

the two deer we have killed with the .400’s fell in their tracks.