How isolated is too isolated
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BenA
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If i do buy it, I might try to lease the fields. Mine would be the only woods to touch that tract.
Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
That would take care of any of my fears with that place
omicron1792
5 year old buck +
Id buy that in a heartbeat. See if you can pay farmer to leave a couple acres surrounding it standing.
LA game wardens poach with the best of em!
No crap.
It could be decent hunting, but it doesn’t offer much variety. You’re likely only going to be able to hunt the downwind border, so the look of the WRP will be important. Can you see thru it at all? Is there browse now? Will there be any when it canopies out pretty soon? 30 yrs old implies to me that there’s little understory.
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BenA
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I'm going to look at it tomorrow and report back. I could do some timber thinning or patch cuts to thicken areas if needed.
I look forward to hearing more about it!
bigboreblr
5 year old buck +
I kind hunt with a place like that. Things go 180 after all the food is harvested. If it's mostly soybeans, you're the cover. IF it's corn, your just a reliable bed for does.
How nice and level are the fields? Seems like you get mud n ruts pretty easy. The tougher the spot is to work, the more soybean residue is left. Often the 1st bean is left in the field. When is LA's yellow period. Kind of a dead zone between green and died out brown. Deer loose interest in the beans for like 2 or 3 weeks.
IF I could buy several places to hunt, Id buy that one if the price is right. If it has extra value of being real close to home or family, I'd get it.
Someone mentioned Iowa. Those guys would love that spot. Good early bow spot in NY's time frame of crops n hunting seasons. Thats when I hunt that similar property.
Just you hunting the big ones? OR you have kids / cousins / uncles wanting their scrubby buck or easy doe. If there's local deer management permits to take the doe population down, can be really good for bucks.
Far as seeing travel routes, deer in those situations take advantge of a rolling hill or culverts to stay hidden.
Water is another consideration there too.
How nice and level are the fields? Seems like you get mud n ruts pretty easy. The tougher the spot is to work, the more soybean residue is left. Often the 1st bean is left in the field. When is LA's yellow period. Kind of a dead zone between green and died out brown. Deer loose interest in the beans for like 2 or 3 weeks.
IF I could buy several places to hunt, Id buy that one if the price is right. If it has extra value of being real close to home or family, I'd get it.
Someone mentioned Iowa. Those guys would love that spot. Good early bow spot in NY's time frame of crops n hunting seasons. Thats when I hunt that similar property.
Just you hunting the big ones? OR you have kids / cousins / uncles wanting their scrubby buck or easy doe. If there's local deer management permits to take the doe population down, can be really good for bucks.
Far as seeing travel routes, deer in those situations take advantge of a rolling hill or culverts to stay hidden.
Water is another consideration there too.
BenA
5 year old buck +
Most of the crops for the last few years have been soybeans. It's pancake flat land and alot of times laser level. The end of August through September is the harvest window. Immediately after that, in September, the fields are tilled and prepped for planting next spring. They're not cover cropping these fields at all or leaving any food in them. I would need to provide food in the form of browse, mast, food plots, and/or feeders as soon as yellowing starts. My wife and kids and I are hunting, but we limit ourselves to only 2-3 deer total per year and that's including targeting particular bucks we are familiar with.
Mortenson
5 year old buck +
Do you recall a thread here a few yrs back where a guy in northern IN IIRC had an island of a farm? It was a decent sized farm, and he had many years of labor and memories involved. I think he was struggling to get bucks past 3.5 because all the neighbors in the farm fields surrounding him shot heavily when deer stepped out. I wonder if there's anything relevant in that thread that would pertain to your property.
Howboutthemdawgs
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I have 650 acres and can’t get deer over 3! We all know every property and neighborhood is different. You may find a true jewel
bigboreblr
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Whats the basics here. Price, taxes, logging potential, distance you need to travel.
IF it doesn't work out, you can lgg it n flip it.
Whats with those weird bumps? Ancient Indian burial site thing going on?
IF it doesn't work out, you can lgg it n flip it.
Whats with those weird bumps? Ancient Indian burial site thing going on?
BenA
5 year old buck +
It's in the WRP program and was enrolled 30 years ago and planted in bottomland hardwoods. That's why it's priced at 1800/acre. It's about 3 hours away, so not bad, but not great.
I could do some timber harvesting depending on the tree density.
Those bumps are from where that duck pond was dug out.
Electrodigical
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Is the whole square 60 acres or the wooded portion of that larger square the 60?
Hard to say, would depend on price, your budget, it's location relative to you and what your other options are. Heck 80% of my deer hunting is done on a neighbor's 66 acres, so 60 acres of my own, where I am, I would get in and never leave. lol
Hard to say, would depend on price, your budget, it's location relative to you and what your other options are. Heck 80% of my deer hunting is done on a neighbor's 66 acres, so 60 acres of my own, where I am, I would get in and never leave. lol
Mortenson
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I searched "island" and it was a thread by BOC title the 4.5 year old buck. You participated in it. One thing he mentioned was how an adjacent guy left some rows of beans standing outside the cover, luring the deer out in daylight. I don't listen to podcasts or anything, but I know guys have discussed how Higgins's island has also faced pressure to the point he talked about a high fence along part of it.
Howboutthemdawgs
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Yeah turn it back into a duck hole and charge some guys from Atlanta $5000 acre
