biglakeba$$
5 year old buck +
Brooks there is a 40 for sale next to us... Last I checked it was about 250k with a posh log cabin with no electricity........
Riggsgwp->
5 year old buck +
I wouldn't rule out Baxter/Brainerd. There's some damn nice deer in town. It doesn't take a very big parcel in town to have good hunting with trophy deer.
Jim Timber
5 year old buck +
The swamp dividing my place from the beach road is it's saving grace! I hate the cabin in the summer. Every fugnuts and their kin drives up and down the road on their side-by-sides, golf carts, atv's, bikes... The traffic from Friday night to Sunday around 5pm is relentless.
Fortunately, I just have to scoot a few hundred feet into the treeline and they're far less noticeable.
Jim Timber
5 year old buck +
I didn't think you saw all that much of the place. Wife waiting and all. :D
biglakeba$$
5 year old buck +
I dont see a human until opening day of rifle..... No wonder our deer find the bunker.... god, its a zoo around us. People showing up way early, people showing up at shooting light, people showing up 2 hours after shooting light.
The deer are in overload on the changes in a matter of hours.....
The deer are in overload on the changes in a matter of hours.....
biglakeba$$
5 year old buck +
Tried now for oh..... umpteen years.....
As I have stated many times.... I think our biggest issue is that we are the only people using the land for most of the year....... They live on surrounding properties.
But they love my food after sunset!!!!
I cant make food plots, improve habitat, check cams, or just enjoy the land without being there.
What does a guys do........ oh well.
As I have stated many times.... I think our biggest issue is that we are the only people using the land for most of the year....... They live on surrounding properties.
But they love my food after sunset!!!!
I cant make food plots, improve habitat, check cams, or just enjoy the land without being there.
What does a guys do........ oh well.
foggy
5 year old buck +
Every day when we are discussing deer.....someone pulls out their cell phone and show me a GREAT deer. Folks here don't care about B&C or P&Y.......they just want a big 'un....and....they do shoot em......and have faun doing it.
This is a fun area to live and hunt, and fish, and go to all the gray attractions. I rest my case.
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wiscwhip
5 year old buck +
This^^^ is why I need to start taking up bowhunting again. During rifle I should just stay home and drink.
foggy
5 year old buck +
Reminds me of a sign on my dad's office wall: " If you want good, clean oats you must pay a fair price......but if you want oats that have already passed through our horses.....well, that comes a bit cheaper". ;)
biglakeba$$
5 year old buck +
Foggy
can you focus on the rain dance and stop posting for a few days..... my plots are hurting and I am going to be sending you a subpeona pretty damn soon for false advertisement.
can you focus on the rain dance and stop posting for a few days..... my plots are hurting and I am going to be sending you a subpeona pretty damn soon for false advertisement.
foggy
5 year old buck +
Yep....I feel your pain......but....I Never received that check you promised. In a court of law.....me thinks you are screwed. :D
biglakeba$$
5 year old buck +
I can print pages of promises from this forum...... A forum promise is as good as a handshake in a court of law dude......
You never delivered.....
You never delivered.....
wklman
5 year old buck +
This is very good advice about a sleeper area. There's a few guys around that pass small bucks and does and the land is fairly reasonable. If your serious about looking I'll give my neighbor a call and see if he knows anybody thinking about selling land around us. Word of mouth is always helpful when looking for things. I'd also look north and south of 210 between highway 29 and 71. I always see lots of deer even during rifle season along that pass of road. Lots of good swamp bottom in there.
West Branch
5 year old buck +
I wanted to make it but it's tough in June and July. May, August and December seem like the best months and May and August are still tough to make it.
Jim Timber
5 year old buck +
It's muggy as all get out and the flies and skeeters are in full effect now. You don't want to lounge around in the woods over the noon hour in August.
December might be a good one, but you've got Christmas parties to contend with then.
December might be a good one, but you've got Christmas parties to contend with then.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
Those weekends get to me, also.
Some of my best remembered hunts were about 65 miles south of International Falls, with the bow and with the rifle both. There were not many deer, but I had peace and quiet.
Also got to agree with foggy about some decent bucks in the lake country and near Brainerd/baxter. Lake people feed deer during the winter and have tiny sanctuaries with no hunting behind their lake homes or in the city limits. Then they complain when the deer eat their shrubs in their yards.
I still like some land where I can plant trees and work on habitat. Hunting 5 acres behind a house does not appeal to me, big deer or not.
Make it 160 around the house and I am happier.;)
SD51555
5 year old buck +
Right before tree planting. When the ground is still too frozen to sink a shovel. I was in the tax business and I had always planted anywhere from the first weekend after April 15th to the first or second weekend in May. The woods was still clean and there wasn't much you could do other than light chainsaw work or you'd be stuck in the mud.
