Bill
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It's a very old and big, Big Game treestand. I think they called it the executive. Pic doesn't do it justice, it's two stands put together, about 30 foot tall. My favorite stand and it's produced well.
Made it to the farm today
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Tree Spud
5 year old buck +
I just put one of those up this weekend. Well built with double rail. How in the heck do you support 30' tall stand to the tree?
Bill
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There is a 8 inch diameter limb above the half way point. One side of the ladder is ratchet strapped at that point. The brace to the tree is below that. It's really sturdy. Those old double rails are pretty stout. Works out good. Where I took the pic from is up hill so a low stand would have you at eye level with deer.
Wild Thing
5 year old buck +
Looks great! Nice job.
Hoytvectrix
5 year old buck +
I like the thought of using a shallower pot. I use a deeper turkey frying pot. I think that causes more splash and heat stains on the antlers. I boil all of my skulls and occasionally you can see stains from either oil or moisture getting into the antler.
Bill
Administrator
I've suspected that the food plot companies recommend mowing clover not to keep it palatable for the deer but to keep it from producing flowers and thus seeds. If you have a zillion natural seeds when a clover field wears out you don't have to kill it and buy more seed. Just kill the field and let it regrow.
I posted the above pic of single brassica plant back in June. It's in my yard, a spilled seed that grew in the spring and I left it. It was my yard plant all summer and got quite big. It never bolted or did any of the nasty stuff they say will happen if you plant to early. Being 10 feet from back door it had a smidge of browse over the summer but remained quite healthy.
I got in very late last night and woke up to this, this morning. I'm thinking I need a spring planting of a brassica field.
Bill
Administrator
Yep. It's a Winfred forage brassica. Hybrid cross between kale and a brassica.
Foggy47
5 year old buck +
Looks like it's crossbred with a stump. lol
Bill
Administrator
Usually we weigh them before gutting them and after. This one we decided to gut on the way back. We're finding it's so much easier to gut them laying down then on the hook. He was 190 dressed. Don't think I'm going to to gut one the hook again. It looks good but I find it a PITA
Foggy47
5 year old buck +
^ Kinda surprised to hear this. I have found it far easier / cleaner to gut them on the hook.
Bill
Administrator
Seems like every time I cut the diaphragm blood rushes out and blood splashes everywhere.
Booner21
5 year old buck +
I do the same I think it is way easier to manage. I lay mine on the truck bed get lungs heart detachrd then tilt the rear end over while some holds the front.everything slides right out hardly even gat a drop of blood on anything.
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hillrunner
5 year old buck +
Holy brow tines!
