Favorite Habitat?
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wiscwhip
5 year old buck +
Snapped a few pics this morning. These are in areas we used to be able to hunt 15 years ago, but have since become private. Some of the largest bucks in our area come from places like this.
You can see the tag alder swamp in the front and the oak ridge in the background.
Another one with a mixed conifer/hardwood ridge in the distance that crosses from a red/black oak 40 to a pine plantation to the east. Super funnel.
You can see the tag alder swamp in the front and the oak ridge in the background.
Another one with a mixed conifer/hardwood ridge in the distance that crosses from a red/black oak 40 to a pine plantation to the east. Super funnel.
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
Thanks for the pics. I love it: different grasses, woody shrubs, edge in clumps and lines, and edge in altitude with varying height of vegetation. Good stuff.
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H20fwler
5 year old buck +
Here is the start of mine, I put two shallow wetland ponds in along 13+ acres of old mixed hardwoods then planted the 15 acre field to warm and cold season native grasses. Also put in a one acre apple/pear orchard at one end and planted a small grove of twenty or so 8' chestnut trees out about twenty yards from woods.
Planting some shrub strips in early spring around the outside of field with crab apples/pin oaks/dogwood/cranberries/hazelnut and persimmons. The property is surrounded by ag fields of rotated corn&beans with a good sized river four hundred yards away.
My back wetland pond;
Planting some shrub strips in early spring around the outside of field with crab apples/pin oaks/dogwood/cranberries/hazelnut and persimmons. The property is surrounded by ag fields of rotated corn&beans with a good sized river four hundred yards away.
My back wetland pond;
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Catscratch
5 year old buck +
That place is going to look awesome in a couple of yrs. I grew up a duck hunter and there isn't much that's prettier than a shallow marsh with tall grasses next to it.Here is the start of mine, I put two shallow wetland ponds in along 13+ acres of old mixed hardwoods then planted the 15 acre field to warm and cold season native grasses. Also put in a one acre apple/pear orchard at one end and planted a small grove of twenty or so 8' chestnut trees out about twenty yards from woods.
Planting some shrub strips in early spring around the outside of field with crab apples/pin oaks/dogwood/cranberries/hazelnut and persimmons. The property is surrounded by ag fields of rotated corn&beans with a good sized river four hundred yards away.
My back wetland pond;
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Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Whip - How high are those " ridges " ........ 25 ft. ??? :D ( Had to do it !!! ) Post #23
The territory looks ugly-good for big gaggers to be lurking. I love those combinations of terrain. There's something about swamps together with hardwoods and ag.
The territory looks ugly-good for big gaggers to be lurking. I love those combinations of terrain. There's something about swamps together with hardwoods and ag.
Tap
5 year old buck +
You beat me to it. Those guys use the term "ridge" rather loosly, don't they?
How ever do they hunt the torturous wind patterns created by those "ridges"?
Actually, I'm jealous...looks like nicer terrain than we have. The wind patterns here will drive ya nuts.
SW Pa
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Tap - Yep, I'll suffer in that terrain with all those swamps and " ridges " !!! If it meant I'd have to put up with seeing 130" to 160" bucks ........ I guess you could force me to hunt areas like that. I've just never sat in a ladder stand that was taller than the ridge it was parked on !!! :D:p
wiscwhip
5 year old buck +
Lol guys! Yup, we(I) do have a rather loose definition of "ridge" as far as that goes, but keep in mind that I deer hunt in the flat boggy marshlands, where a "ridge" can be only 4' to 15' on average and a 40'er is considered pretty tall. Just remember though, I live and turkey hunt in the Driftless Area, where 600' elevation changes with up to 70 degree slopes are common, so the term "ridge" is relative to where my feet are planted at the moment. ;)
