Turtlesprings
5 year old buck +
I'm going to try to show you guys around the farm and the area.
We are in the Missouri Ozarks. 67 acres. Lots of surrounding, high graded, no degrading hardwoods. The farm had a severe burn in early 2003 or so. Killed a high number of trees on the farm. To say it looked like a complete mess is an understatement when I bought it in 2008. Went thru an Equip program to kill out the millions of saplings. Installed food plots on the available 3 acres of space that I could create without causing major erosion issues. I have ran fires thru it and planted numerous trees and shrubs. Mostly a failure on that effort.
It's now 2020. We have taken 2 bucks over 6 years old, 2 at 5, 1 at 4, and 3 at 2 year olds. I have only taken 3 does off of the place due to camera surveys. 5 turkeys have been taken since 2015. Turkey numbers are good to excellent. I don't hold em, but they do travel thru quite frequently. I do hold about 12 deer year round. Mostly doe groups during the summer and then the bucks move in and pester the does and my food plots.
It has been a wonderful experience and I will start posting some pics of the transformation.
Goals for the future....less disturbance of the soil...turn a west facing hill side into a switchgrass laden habitat...grow a booner buck.
We are in the Missouri Ozarks. 67 acres. Lots of surrounding, high graded, no degrading hardwoods. The farm had a severe burn in early 2003 or so. Killed a high number of trees on the farm. To say it looked like a complete mess is an understatement when I bought it in 2008. Went thru an Equip program to kill out the millions of saplings. Installed food plots on the available 3 acres of space that I could create without causing major erosion issues. I have ran fires thru it and planted numerous trees and shrubs. Mostly a failure on that effort.
It's now 2020. We have taken 2 bucks over 6 years old, 2 at 5, 1 at 4, and 3 at 2 year olds. I have only taken 3 does off of the place due to camera surveys. 5 turkeys have been taken since 2015. Turkey numbers are good to excellent. I don't hold em, but they do travel thru quite frequently. I do hold about 12 deer year round. Mostly doe groups during the summer and then the bucks move in and pester the does and my food plots.
It has been a wonderful experience and I will start posting some pics of the transformation.
Goals for the future....less disturbance of the soil...turn a west facing hill side into a switchgrass laden habitat...grow a booner buck.