Recent content by SwampCat

I have about 80 acres dying green ash. Scares the heck out of me to ride or walk through there. No way would I get in there. I would have to think long and hard about trailing a deer in there - is it worth your life. Might make it out ok - might not.

She couldnt say anything - she is the reason I left to help her do something

Made myself a promise - never again after summer is over. I always run straight from the extractor through a 400 micron filter into a bucket with honey gate. As long as it is warm outside, works great. We had two nights of 25 degree - that didnt help

smoked a few sticks summer sausage today

Robbed a few hives over the weekend. This frame of honey is what you wished all of them were. New wax, thin caps, full frames - unfortunately, a lot doesnt look like this here is a frame after the cappings have been removed with a hot knife - ready for the extractor you can see the...

food plots coming around. Very little use no water, no ducks😎

A pawpaw here will never hit the ground. The coons and possums eat them all

I am talking in general - at least me, I am not going to go out and intentionally kill my does with buck fawns in hopes they stay around, anymore than I would shut an unbred queen bee in the hive she was born in and force her to breed with drones of the same gene pool or have my male dog breed...

Dang at the mass!

Is that what a land manager would really want - the buck fawns staying around your property and presenting the opportunity for inbreeding?

I doubt you would even have to drill it if you caught a decent rain. I top sow a lot of wheat and have pretty decent luck

How regularly do you have success with a longbow while hunting from the ground? That sure does look awfully open for ground bow hunting.

In addition to what Ben said about killing the existing vegetation in the field - which I agree with - I would have a hard time not planting a two acre food plot in that “V” from the field that extends into the woods a little bit. Food plots almst always will see at least a little deer use -...

A lot of folks maintain the full moon results in deer moving all night. My experience, for several years, as a federal wildlife biologist I used to assist the state biologists with they were in the area doing their abo mason parasite counts - otherwise know as “APC Shoots”. Typically, we would...

This is proof that all deer are not created equal. Rode by my last two apple trees with fruit still hanging. I hadnt been by there in a couple days. Picked up a few gallons of apples laying in the ground - the deer ignore the apples My garden turnip patch doing well deer been all in it...