That's my 100' tape that I used to use for measuring roofs back when I was a big deal. I've been cleaning my garage this fall, and I couldn't find my regular tape measure (despite the garage being 100% clean and organized) so I had to use that one.
Don’t you hate when you organize then you can’t find anything? Happens to me a lot!
Gotcha. Now that you say this ^ .....I have a tape like that too (in fact two of 'em). When working in real long lengths.....inches don't relate the same as feet and inches.
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Gotta have the dance music playing for when the fellas show up.
I get pissy when I don't see a deer on a single sit. Can't imagine going 4 days w/o a sighting. I liked the doe climbing the spoils pile. Queen of the hill. I enjoy watching the deer eat what I put out there though, even if its just does and fawns.Finally got to see some deer in the daylight. It's been a very slow October thanks to the acorn boom. I sat for 4 days and didn't see a deer this weekend. Tonight, they finally got with the program, and I had 8 different deer come through. No antlers, but at least some action. The snow was nice to hunt in, hell to drive back to town.
Bow Footage Halloween 2023
Didn't see deer for 4 of the 5 days. The last day they showed up.
There have been back to back enormous crops of acorns. I can't believe I'm saying this, but hopefully they have it out of their system for a few years now. I don't mind the deer getting some bonus food, but this was ridiculous. I also am looking at a few thousand acres of logged federal land within a mile of me that is gonna be putting out lots of browse the next couple years. It's going to be a challenge to keep the deer around when I want them there.
I should try those but I generally despise climbing trees in any fashion.
If it was on the other side of my property, and not the night I had to leave, I would have. That corner is the center of the flat earth as far as my gun hunt is concerned. There will/should be 2-6 deer out there every sit, and the bucks have been running right up to the edge of that plot looking for closing time girls. I wanted to keep that surprise factor in place, and not have to be potentially going into the no-go area to retrieve a fawn. I still have a thing about shooting a doe with fawns around me.
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Man I’m tired after watching that.The winter cut is done. I missed one volume edit. No refunds. I need to get to bed.
Winter Cut 2023
What do you do when you just had the worst season you've ever seen? Work harder than you ever have.
I'm learning as I go. I did a cut like this right next to this one two years ago. The response was quick and very good. The slough grass came back in a hurry and became great cover quickly. The grouse love it in there, and the deer highly preferred moving through that, than on my trails. The tag alder comes back at least 6' and with 5x the stems that I cut down. The place I messed up two years ago was just going like hell and getting brush on the ground. I didn't leave any room to go back and plant in any conifers.
