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[Ben.MN/WI]

Western North Dakota is really cool - I've hunted there a couple times and I've always been impressed with the game numbers.

We would find a lot of mulies and game birds in the little shrub filled drainages, ditches and creekbottoms. I was surprised by how little cover it took to hold wildlife out there. A few 1/4 acre pockets of shrubs could make quite a difference.

 

[Perdix]

Now I am "connecting the dots" on your sprayer needs. Grin. Not sure about that land you have.....if it's like some in the Dakota's (and in AZ) that land seals up with just a little rainfall and the roads become slick as snot......Am I right??

I ran into a thunderstorm in western So Dakota once while on a dirt road in my Chevy Suburban. Got so slippery I had to stop to prevent sliding in the ditch. Then....wind picked up and the wind pushed that big old suburban sideways into the ditch anyway. Had a hell of a time getting back to a graveled road......and power washing that gumbo out of my wheels.....so they would balance again.

Out there we've always called that mud "gumbo". It clogs the tires in a heartbeat. Nasty stuff. Ha, no, the badlands will remain untouched and they are a tiny section off in the corner. Nothing to improve upon there. The rest of the property is rolling grasslands and nothing like it. These are two views from about where my hunting blind currently is overlooking the main part of the land. Night and day difference from July green to fall brown. The spraying will be in the flat field to the right of the trees in the green picture. The shrubs will be in the middle of that field running parallel to the trees.

 

[Foggy47]

^Are you looking to use a Boomless Sprayer? or a Bar with drop nozzles? I think I have a hundred questions I could ask you. That is allot of land to manage. lifetime work....endless possibilities.

Awesome pics. I love that rolling grassland. Do you have some Prairie Dogs out there?

 

[Perdix]

Probably a boomless sprayer as the section to kill off is only 4 acres. It can be overwhelming thinking of all the things a guy could do now with unlimited time and resources, but slow and steady will be the path. I've told my sons that there will be work for them, and their future children to do. But that makes it fun. No prairie dogs in the area any more. I had a few secret fields the boys and I used to shoot, but those have since been poisoned off. It's hard to convince ranchers to leave them alone. :)