Thread: Ready for Deer Season?

I haven't had time for hunting much in the last couple of years, but this is the time of year I'd get out and plant food plots and check cameras for deer hitting up the salt licks. Too hot to fish, for me, in late August.

It's noonish 8/25/17 and here's what this deer is doing now. It's on watchthedeer.com

If it's to hot to fish , I can't see it being cooler planting food plots , unless it's in a nice Bid John Deer with A/C , Then I'm feeling it.

You do know that if you need help getting rid of those free loading deer , I'll be glad to get you a hand , After the fishing thins out.

Some fine looking eats your fating up .

I tried Haywire's technique of "top-seeding" the ground with corn.
For better or worse, the corn never grows because deer and hogs keep eating it.
This is the time of year that deer need to retain water, so they're naturally drawn, during the heat of the summer, to salt licks. If you've got a creek somewhere nearby, it's a great place for drawing them in now, before the season starts.

I won't be able to do any real hunting until next season (2018), when I'll be officially retired.

I'll be getting ready cleaning out the freezer making deer jerky to bring this trip (like all trips) still need to get on the hanging cooler in the back of the overseas container.....dought if the 2 inside ground blinds get done for dry hunting for guest.....might elevate one of those .....darn part time job turned into full time......oh well double dipping ,the monies good

I bush hogged the past 2 days and the heat was bearable and the humidity was a lot lower than normal. The vegetation is lush and green for this time of year in my neck of the woods. Lots of activity at the mineral licks. I went to check a game cam the other day that had been up for a few weeks. I couldn't wait to get a glimpse at some of the furry critters that hang out at this one old stump. When I walked up I thought the camera had been stolen until I saw the little tree had fallen. Only had a few deer pictures but the stump is being chewed to high heaven. Almost finished cutting the last field and the tractor decided to go on strike on the back side of no where and had to walk out. Deer meat is getting almost as expensive as pompano and flounder fillet.

I know what you mean, Mark. My bush hog is on its last legs---has been welded back together so many times that the welds are startng to split. I have sprayed herbicide on my plots and will let them lay until I start disking in Oct. Right now, I need to mow all the places that are infested with Chinese lespedeza so that it will not make a heavy seed crop---I'd like to spray it, but that kills everything and I don't want that. A couple of weeks into football season, I'll start spraying cogon grass which has a year's jump on me due to my shoulder surgery. The high point of my day was when a four foot long grey rat snake crawled out of the grass just in time to miss being mowed. I wished him good hunting and many mice. Driving that tractor is out of the question between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00p.m. and it's hard to get started back in the afternoons. Earlier today, I walked out on the front porch and heard a bob white whistling---that's a sound I don't hear near enough anymore.

I just thankful we don't have to deal with Hurricane Harvey, but it will eventually be our turn again.

The last field gremlin gave me a visit last week too. Forty something acres cut with three to go and all hell breaks out on my first lap cutting close to the tree line. Shut the PTO off, raised the right wing of the 15' cutter and there it was, ten feet of skitter cable wrapped up. Went back to the barn, tried to pull the flywheel off but it was too tight so out came the cutting torch and crowbar. Crap like that happens when I'm up there by myself.

Sometimes by yourself can be dangerous if something bad happens and you need help or someone to call for help..... we aren't the young pups we once were.....our minds might think so ,but our bodies disagree.....at least mine

I got a landline put in the day after I had my mini stroke (TIA)at our property where the cell phones don't get reception except for the top of the hill.

I hear you Bill. When I'm doing tractor work by myself I say in the cab unless I need to stretch or take a wiz. Mike and I are two man show on 2700 acres and have learned to play it safe.

Originally Posted by john g

I hear you Bill. When I'm doing tractor work by myself I say in the cab unless I need to stretch or take a wiz. Mike and I are two man show on 2700 acres and have learned to play it safe.

A tractor with a cab? What manner of sorcery is that? How can the bees, hornets, yelolow jackets, ticks, spiders, briars and thorns going to get you in a cab?