Williams Creek Farm of SW Iowa
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And some random pics enjoying Gods creation…
Couple swans on the pond yesterday:
Couple nice early spring fish…
First shed of the season:
Last years cut hedge was hammered by deer. Great mineral stump for a couple years.
Compared to a stump cut the same time 10 yrds away that wasn’t cut low enough for the deer to reach. We’ll need to treat this one.
Made a plain jane turkey fan holder for my daughter from some walnut on our place.
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Couple swans on the pond yesterday:
Couple nice early spring fish…
First shed of the season:
Last years cut hedge was hammered by deer. Great mineral stump for a couple years.
Compared to a stump cut the same time 10 yrds away that wasn’t cut low enough for the deer to reach. We’ll need to treat this one.
Made a plain jane turkey fan holder for my daughter from some walnut on our place.
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We’re letting that go to old field management. Letting the natives come up. It is on the edge of the timber that we plan to edge feather. And we have a food plots on either end of the old field.
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Short story on the recovered buck…
I had 7 encounters with this guy before I get on arrow into him on Nov 20. Each encounter was a story itself… From having him at 9 yrds and him hearing the arrow rub my rest as I drew back as the felt had worn off, to him coming by twice before legal shooting light to passing within minutes of each other on my way to the stand. (See timestamps)
That was the morning that I shot him in the afternoon.
For my afternoon hunt that day, I had decided to hunt a stand on the other side of the farm that I honestly didn’t expect to see him. It was an interior stand that I have great access in a 15ft deep ditch just to the south of a bedding thicket that I cut in 2 years prior.
Saw him at 60 yrds. Grunted and he came trotting right in. I took the shot at 25 yrds. I’m right handed, and I had to lean left to shoot around a big burr oak. Arrow did the weirdest thing and looked like it bounced off his front shoulder. H limped off.
It def hit some kind of bone. Found the arrow with 6” busted off. Caught the shot on my head mount Tactacam. You can see the white spot of the fletchings where it entered.
Since it was 6” broken off, thought maybe a heart shot. Never found any blood. Grid searched to about 150yds from the shot and no luck. Thought of calling in a dog, but after reviewing the hit and knowing we grid searched, he said only about 50% chance of recovery.
Anyway, glad to have recovered him, if it was 5 months later.
Had history from last year. As I passed him twice in 2023. I think he as still young… I’m guessing 4yo this year. Recovered the front teeth to send in to have him CM aged.
Was a fun journey.
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I had 7 encounters with this guy before I get on arrow into him on Nov 20. Each encounter was a story itself… From having him at 9 yrds and him hearing the arrow rub my rest as I drew back as the felt had worn off, to him coming by twice before legal shooting light to passing within minutes of each other on my way to the stand. (See timestamps)
That was the morning that I shot him in the afternoon.
For my afternoon hunt that day, I had decided to hunt a stand on the other side of the farm that I honestly didn’t expect to see him. It was an interior stand that I have great access in a 15ft deep ditch just to the south of a bedding thicket that I cut in 2 years prior.
Saw him at 60 yrds. Grunted and he came trotting right in. I took the shot at 25 yrds. I’m right handed, and I had to lean left to shoot around a big burr oak. Arrow did the weirdest thing and looked like it bounced off his front shoulder. H limped off.
It def hit some kind of bone. Found the arrow with 6” busted off. Caught the shot on my head mount Tactacam. You can see the white spot of the fletchings where it entered.
Since it was 6” broken off, thought maybe a heart shot. Never found any blood. Grid searched to about 150yds from the shot and no luck. Thought of calling in a dog, but after reviewing the hit and knowing we grid searched, he said only about 50% chance of recovery.
Anyway, glad to have recovered him, if it was 5 months later.
Had history from last year. As I passed him twice in 2023. I think he as still young… I’m guessing 4yo this year. Recovered the front teeth to send in to have him CM aged.
Was a fun journey.
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Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
What do you do with all those hedge logs - firewood?? Are you eliminating hedge - or just keeping it under control for mineral stumps?
We sell them for fence posts. $50 for a corner $25 for a line post. We have sold out every year for the past four years. They will last 2 to 3 times as long than a creosote fence post.
The first few years we let all the hedge grow back as mineral stumps and future fence posts. The deer can keep them eaten down for about two seasons. This year we are starting to treat many of them.
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