sandbur
5 year old buck +
We got two. That is all we need for the freezer.
My daughter got the biggest one!
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We got two. That is all we need for the freezer.
My daughter got the biggest one!
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BuckSutherland
5 year old buck +
We got two. That is all we need for the freezer.
My daughter got the biggest one!
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LOL. Looks like your sweating your ass off dealing with that heavy SOB. That brute is one fine lookin specimen.
BuckSutherland
5 year old buck +
Two short rows of spruce are starting to create some cover.
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I took over spruce duties on our land up north this year. Instead of wasting money for years on them small little worthless plugs I bought the largest ones I could from Itasca greenhouse. What a huge difference. After one season some of the trees I planted this year are already past the stuff we planted 5 years ago as 4 and 6 plugs. Also had 100% survival rate. I tried to keep the ferns and weeds off them this summer by marking them with pink flags. That really seemed to boost them.
Then first week of OCT I bud capped every spruce I could on our property. Think I did 315 trees. 200 (7 easy hours with a shovel and flags) of them were the ones I planted this spring. The other 110 were all that remain of the nearly 1500 that we probably planted the 5 seasons before. I suspect in 3 years they should be 8' tall. I picked some awesome bedrooms and sure hope I am alive to see it in 10-20 years.
Planning like 200 more trees for next year. 1/3 Norway spruce again, 1/3 White pine, 1/3 Canaan Fir. All fast growers. Already have a few dozen whites out there, some scotch pine, Meyers spruce. Very few black spruce and black hills spruce and some fir trees.
Need to figure out a way to zap my ferns and replace with with nice grass like the stuff in your picture too.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
We got two. That is all we need for the freezer.
My daughter got the biggest one!
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LOL. Looks like your sweating your ass off dealing with that heavy SOB. That brute is one fine lookin specimen.
That is her pulling the deer out.
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sandbur
5 year old buck +
Two short rows of spruce are starting to create some cover.
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I took over spruce duties on our land up north this year. Instead of wasting money for years on them small little worthless plugs I bought the largest ones I could from Itasca greenhouse. What a huge difference. After one season some of the trees I planted this year are already past the stuff we planted 5 years ago as 4 and 6 plugs. Also had 100% survival rate. I tried to keep the ferns and weeds off them this summer by marking them with pink flags. That really seemed to boost them.
Then first week of OCT I bud capped every spruce I could on our property. Think I did 315 trees. 200 (7 easy hours with a shovel and flags) of them were the ones I planted this spring. The other 110 were all that remain of the nearly 1500 that we probably planted the 5 seasons before. I suspect in 3 years they should be 8' tall. I picked some awesome bedrooms and sure hope I am alive to see it in 10-20 years.
Planning like 200 more trees for next year. 1/3 Norway spruce again, 1/3 White pine, 1/3 Canaan Fir. All fast growers. Already have a few dozen whites out there, some scotch pine, Meyers spruce. Very few black spruce and black hills spruce and some fir trees.
Need to figure out a way to zap my ferns and replace with with nice grass like the stuff in your picture too.
That nice grass is reed canary which is a nightmare to grow trees in.
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Wintomatic
5 year old buck +
I have lots of reeds canary grass around here. My grandfather planted it in the late 60’s/ early 70’s. Is it pretty hard to kill off? Wanted to put switch grass or nwsg’s in there.
Big Snow Man
5 year old buck +
Love those chocolate colored horns. Lot of rubbing on pine trees ?
sandbur
5 year old buck +
I will need to find some big rubs and see what he had been using.
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sandbur
5 year old buck +
Reed canary has a tremendous seed bank in the soil, plus if an area seasonally floods, seed will wash in from upstream areas.
I know a guy that does prairie restoration work an he has been battling RC on his home place for years trying to convert it to NWSG.
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sandbur
5 year old buck +
Numbers are down. We jumped two roosters and a hen in about an hour and a half.
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Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Merry Christmas Art & family !!! ^^^ Nice Christmas arrangement.
