Weasel
5 year old buck +
Some of you know me from the old forum and Double A Farm from my posts as Stickbowcrafter over there. Trimmed the username down to my actual nickname since childhood.
For those of you that aren't familiar, the Double A is a 40 acre farm in NE Ohio's corn & soybean belt. The property is about 60/40 woods/tillable. My neighbor leases my front 10+ acre field that connects with his. He doesn't hunt so he gave me permission to hunt & manage his woods as well. His parcel is about the same size and layout as mine.
I sold my 25 acre farm to buy this 40 acre piece in 2013. I have been improving it since. It was vacant land then. I have since built a two story barn (cabin), a storage shed & just this summer an equipment building.
I have approximately 2-3 acres in food plots (summer & fall) and I started a fruit orchard and chestnut grove in the Spring of 2015. We have killed 3 mature does from the property (one each year) and passed many immature bucks. Trail cam photos show that mature bucks frequent the area but I have not put one on the ground yet. Buckeye Big Buck Club recognizes a 140 inch buck as a good representative of the species in Ohio and that is a realistic goal in my area. Monsters have occasionally been found or killed in the area due to the large ag presence.
Hopefully that brings you up to speed enough to get started. I'll get some pics posted soon.
For those of you that aren't familiar, the Double A is a 40 acre farm in NE Ohio's corn & soybean belt. The property is about 60/40 woods/tillable. My neighbor leases my front 10+ acre field that connects with his. He doesn't hunt so he gave me permission to hunt & manage his woods as well. His parcel is about the same size and layout as mine.
I sold my 25 acre farm to buy this 40 acre piece in 2013. I have been improving it since. It was vacant land then. I have since built a two story barn (cabin), a storage shed & just this summer an equipment building.
I have approximately 2-3 acres in food plots (summer & fall) and I started a fruit orchard and chestnut grove in the Spring of 2015. We have killed 3 mature does from the property (one each year) and passed many immature bucks. Trail cam photos show that mature bucks frequent the area but I have not put one on the ground yet. Buckeye Big Buck Club recognizes a 140 inch buck as a good representative of the species in Ohio and that is a realistic goal in my area. Monsters have occasionally been found or killed in the area due to the large ag presence.
Hopefully that brings you up to speed enough to get started. I'll get some pics posted soon.