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[Hall77]

Hello I hunt and live in western Kentucky I absolutely love bow hunting been running trail cameras for 23 years. Spend most of my time hunting with my four kids and wife. Love the Lord and hope to learn some stuff and contribute where I can. This is my best buck to date killed on our home farm.

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[rocksnstumps]

^^^wow that's a tall fella. Welcome to the site. The Lord, family, and land sums up a lot about life.

Whatchu doing with the tractor? Gotta admit enjoy some good shop layout pics over the critter stuff most times.

 

[Hall77]

^^^wow that's a tall fella. Welcome to the site. The Lord, family, and land sums up a lot about life.

Whatchu doing with the tractor? Gotta admit enjoy some good shop layout pics over the critter stuff most times.

It actually caught on fire my Dad was in the process of putting it back together.


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[Kybowhunter95]

hello everyone Im a carpenter by trade I Love the Lord , my wife and our four children. I also Love to bowhunt we recently bought 40 acres in western Ky and are having fun trying to improve the habitat but I have a lot to learn and that’s why I’m here!

 

[Bill]

Welcome to H-T KYbowhunter

 

[Swampwalker]

To all,
I’ve been following the forum for years and finally signed up.
First I would like to say that I really appreciate the knowledge you all share and look forward to be able to participate.
We live on 60 acres on the west side of southern Michigan. I’ve enjoyed managing habitat for a little over 30 years.
Our place has about 25 acres of creek bottom swamp, another 20 acres of hardwoods and 3 small fields totaling about 10 acres with the remainder in brush and a small orchard of apples, crabs and pears.
Deer and turkey hunting were always my passion although I haven’t hunted the last few years. I get just as much enjoyment out of habitat management and seeing others that we let hunt enjoying themselves.

 

[Bszweda]

Welcome! Southern Michigan is a very pretty area. I went to crane orchard last year and drove around the area and really liked it. Your property sounds diverse. I'm sure the wildlife love your fruit trees.

 

[Bill]

Welcome to H-T swampwalker.

 

[POC]

Hi all! Patrick here. I live on property my great grandparents bought in the 1940s. My dad owned it before me and now it is mine. In total there's about 300 acres but part of it is my sister's now.
Primarily the property is hard woods with some areas of cedar and pine. There's an old field near the middle of the property with a small pond. The field is reverting to forest, but I think I want to clear it back to a field. There's about 10 acres of hay field near the south end of the property.
I hope I can learn here how to better do things so my timber as well as the animals can prosper.
Thanks,
Patrick

 

[Bill]

Hi all! Patrick here. I live on property my great grandparents bought in the 1940s. My dad owned it before me and now it is mine. In total there's about 300 acres but part of it is my sister's now.
Primarily the property is hard woods with some areas of cedar and pine. There's an old field near the middle of the property with a small pond. The field is reverting to forest, but I think I want to clear it back to a field. There's about 10 acres of hay field near the south end of the property.
I hope I can learn here how to better do things so my timber as well as the animals can prosper.
Thanks,
Patrick

Wecolme to H-T.
Not saying don't do it but keep in mind fields in the middle of large timber are hard to hunt/access. That being said it could be an awesome spot to only rut hunt.

 

[POC]

Wecolme to H-T.
Not saying don't do it but keep in mind fields in the middle of large timber are hard to hunt/access. That being said it could be an awesome spot to only rut hunt.

I hunt a lot there already. There is a road from my house to the field, about 1/8 mile.

 

[MarkM]

Hello forum!
Retired guy here from Eastern Ontario Canada. I have 63 acres of mostly timber with 2~ acres sectioned into 4 food plots. Property is fairly rocky and several ridges.

Still a work in progress with both the food plots and set ups for deer.

Here to learn and share ideas!

 

[Foggy47]

Welcome MarkM

 

[Bill]

Hello forum!
Retired guy here from Eastern Ontario Canada. I have 63 acres of mostly timber with 2~ acres sectioned into 4 food plots. Property is fairly rocky and several ridges.

Still a work in progress with both the food plots and set ups for deer.

Here to learn and share ideas!

Welcome to H-T Mark.

 

[Carbonspyder]

Hi all,
I'm a young forester and farmer in the central Wisconsin area. I enjoy forestry, farming, bowhunting, and gardening/growing plants and trees in my homemade greenhouse. I also have a couple of years of experience and an archery tech and enjoy tuning and working on bows, you might also see me on archery talk.

I joined the site after reading about some native habitat projects a member from Wisconsin did and how he grows native plants around his home and farm. I have some native WI seeds ordered and would like to make a thread about growing them and planting into an old part of our pasture. I might also add some photos and writings about the American chestnut seeds I'm growing, along with the other mast and fruit trees I'm working with.
Glad to be a member instead of a lurker and meet some of you.

 

[Bill]

Hi all,
I'm a young forester and farmer in the central Wisconsin area. I enjoy forestry, farming, bowhunting, and gardening/growing plants and trees in my homemade greenhouse. I also have a couple of years of experience and an archery tech and enjoy tuning and working on bows, you might also see me on archery talk.

I joined the site after reading about some native habitat projects a member from Wisconsin did and how he grows native plants around his home and farm. I have some native WI seeds ordered and would like to make a thread about growing them and planting into an old part of our pasture. I might also add some photos and writings about the American chestnut seeds I'm growing, along with the other mast and fruit trees I'm working with.
Glad to be a member instead of a lurker and meet some of you.

Welcome aboard. Looking forward to seeing the growing threads.

 

[Stubborn1VT]

Hello forum folks,
I'm from the Champlain Valley of Vermont (the banana belt of the state). I am self-employed and grew up on a dairy farm. As land access gets more challenging, I am trying to focus on creating better habitat in the spots I have to hunt.

At my house I have a whopping 6 acres to work with. About 5 acres of mixed woods and a 3/4 acre plot. My plot is fairly heavy clay and I'm interested in increasing the organic matter and working towards a Throw & Mow approach. Other projects include propagating red osier dogwood, planting apples and tackling invasive buckthorn and bush honeysuckle. I am also going to try to make improvements to a 38 acre fallow pasture that I have permission on.

I've learned quite a bit by reading, but it would be a great help to be able to ask specific questions. Lots of experience on here!
I have been busy cutting firewood, getting more light to the ground, and looking at various seed profiles. Thanks for having me!

 

[Tree Spud]

Wecome!

 

[Bill]

Thanks for having me!

Welcome to H-T!

 

[c2ranch]

Hi y'all, found the forums a few months ago and decided to sign up after reading for a while! Just shy of 50, live in Houston and we have a property in E. TX we bought few years back after hunting central TX for several years.

I've spent 30 years in tech, and most of those saltwater fishing for fun. Picked up hunting late in life, in my mid 30s and it's mostly taken the place of fishing for me over the past decade. I would say I got too old to load a 16' kayak every weekend morning at 3am, but I suspect dealing with the land and maintenance is a bit harder on the body and I should've stayed fishing if I wanted to hurt less :)

Anyhow, I was happy to pick up 100 acres in deep east TX back in 2022, and I spend my free weekends and most of my time off out there - it's a bit of a passion project to turn an old timber property back into pine savannah and learning a ton as I go. As a bonus, the more effort we put into it, the more the deer hang around and we get to harvest some meat as well.

Looking forward to learning more from y'all and sharing what I can that's worth sharing. I'm getting pretty good at killing sweetgum and a bunch of invasives, getting slowly better at managing the never-ending erosion and flooding we're having lately, and not getting any better at seeing trophy deer -- but I keep practicing on that one...