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Foggy's Deertopia Proving Grounds - Happenings
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omicron1792
5 year old buck +
Exactly Brian.
Brian662
5 year old buck +
Doesn't need to be wood, but yeah..
When I drive a 150 gallon tank around in my pickup to water trees I always had a few 5 gallon pails floating around, worked great.
Foggy47
5 year old buck +
I bet another few days like we had (hot) with lots of recent rain.....will show me some rows of switch. I think some of the plants shown are switch......I have just not seen any before to compare. Kinda counting on this switch to change my management plan. Testing my patience. Grin.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Ours are standing as well.
Foggy47
5 year old buck +
So...I just "happened" into this video on a sickle bar clearing trails. Pretty much what I expect from the unit I am buying. I suppose some of those sickle sections will need replacement from time to time. I remember as a kid selling those sections.....and in the 50's they all were riveted to the bar. Every farmer had a riveting tool and knew how to replace those knife sections. Serrated sections were a "new thing" back then....and were the source of much conversation on performance. I like the simple bolt-on process of todays sickle bars. Kinda stoked to give mine a try. My trails are closing in fast!
Foggy47
5 year old buck +
Update: Today I got my gas-line installed in this blind and dyed the wood black with RIT Dye. I bought 3 bottles of dye....and added about 1 gallon of water and mixed it all in a 5 gallon bucket. Used and old broom to "paint" the wood as shown below. Worked pretty slick and water cleanup was easy. Still have a little left over....and I see a few spots I missed. Cheap / easy way to get stealthy.
Edit: If I were going to add another blind to my place.....this Banks Stump 4 and a wood tower (just like I built here) would be the combo I would buy. I am pretty sure the Banks blinds are better than the Rednecks I now own. I like the windows and Rotomolded design. Also like the built-in steel base with provisions made for 4x4 posts. The door and windows seal very well. The tinted windows are super and hard to see into the blind....but easy to see out. I got less than $2500 invested in this one....complete with a Banks swivel arm chair and head rest (naps).
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Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Dandy stand, Foggy! That ought to be allow for some comfy sits this coming season. Shoot a nice one!
Some of you gents have a lot more "level-er" ground to place stands like this one above. ^ ^ ^ It looks great, and probably is very comfy in cold, wet weather. Those of us in steep, rocky, mountain areas are stuck with hang-ons, ladder stands or climbers. At my age & bad back - I'd love a warm cabin on stilts!!!
Foggy47
5 year old buck +
Your right about being relatively flat ground for me here. But some guys will build these stands on some fairly steep ground. When doing so....it's better to construct on site. I have a pretty level spot where this one will go....and it will sit atop a fairly large hill and look over a few acres of bedding cover and travel corridors. I prepped the land this spring and can transport the stand though a series of trails and food plots to it's final spot over 1/2 mile away. May do that in the next week or two.....as time permits.Dandy stand, Foggy! That ought to be allow for some comfy sits this coming season. Shoot a nice one!
Some of you gents have a lot more "level-er" ground to place stands like this one above. ^ ^ ^ It looks great, and probably is very comfy in cold, wet weather. Those of us in steep, rocky, mountain areas are stuck with hang-ons, ladder stands or climbers. At my age & bad back - I'd love a warm cabin on stilts!!!
I was thinking about placing this stand in a different location for a bear hunt this fall.....and then moving it again after the bear hunt. But, I have another portable box blind I will use for that set-up and just may leave it located at the bait site for future deer and bear hunting. Dunno....still thinking on that situation. I normally move one or two stands each year with my tractor / loader forks....as we learn better locations or the set up changes somewhat. Other blinds seem more permanent.
I now have 8 box blinds we hunt out of .....and two old ones that are kinda portable like this....but are too run down to hunt from. I place these on my property lines in order to deter the neighbors from hunting on their side of the fence in that same location. We call them our "decoy" blinds". I have not even entered them in a few years.....but my neighbors don't know that.
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TreeDaddy
5 year old buck +
Foggy47
5 year old buck +
Yeah.....I could not beleive my luck. I stopped by at the Peasureland Closeout store where they have an assortment of Banks blind products. They had already great prices on these blinds....as I had seen them on an earlier stop. Then on June 30th they had a big sign up that said "20% off all inventory storewide". I asked if that included the blinds and they told me it did. I paid $2000. for the Banks Stump 4. Smoking deal for sure. Got all the lumber from Menards for about $250 after rebate......and a Nice Banks office chair for $160 after the 20% off deal.
They still have a Banks Stump 4 just like the one I bought.....and I have considered offering to buy it at the same price.....I just do not have the time to build another tower or the want to do the work this year.
T-Max
5 year old buck +
We have stores here called Sutherlands. Occasionally they have a 20% off sale on items you put on their credit card. I’ll buy my blinds that way and then just pay off the balance as soon as it shows up. One store manager told me they for sure lose money on me. 
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Foggy47
5 year old buck +
After applying 2qts Glyphosate and 1 Pt / acre 24d, I waited two weeks......and applied 2 qts Glyphosate and Simazine. Then Drilled 7#/acre of RC Sundance Switchgrass (as shown two pages back). NO Switch is evident as of today. Nadda......depite some good hot temps and adequate rainfalls proceeding the planting.
Nearly a month has passed. Should I not be seeing any switch yet?? I can find no switch growing in the strips I planted. I am not sure I can wait any longer. This blows my mind.
Nearly a month has passed. Should I not be seeing any switch yet?? I can find no switch growing in the strips I planted. I am not sure I can wait any longer. This blows my mind.
omicron1792
5 year old buck +
The place is called Pleasureland?! Doesn’t sound like a hunting store Fog!5
The new improved varieties is nonsense imo. Switch is slow to germinate then takes off. It will grow.
it will grow. Might as well stop looking at it!
The new improved varieties is nonsense imo. Switch is slow to germinate then takes off. It will grow.
My wife would be asking a lot of questions if a $2500 charge at Pleasureland shows up on my credit card.
I read that some varieties of switchgrass need cold stratification, which may be why the first year tends to suck and the second year looks much better. I'm not sure if that applies to your specific variety, but I know the switchgrass I planted in my CRP blend showed up strong in year 2.
Did you plant anything else with the switchgrass?
Brian662
5 year old buck +
Foggy the only concern is planting too deep. You could go out there and dig up a "trench" to identify seeds and depth. My guess is the delay is from ground thatch keeping the soil cool.
I know this doesn't help you but I planted RC Bigrock 19 days ago and its already 2" tall. It was on bare soil that no tilled into moist-ish soil. I'll grab some pics.
I know this doesn't help you but I planted RC Bigrock 19 days ago and its already 2" tall. It was on bare soil that no tilled into moist-ish soil. I'll grab some pics.
