Skip, your robo deer idea is a good one. Once you get some successful prosecution done, word will get out to local poachers. I had a problem at the farm with road poachers. I worked with game and parks and they set up a robo deer. Caught one, could of probably had more but a very noisy...
I have girdled giant ones and sprayed tordon in the girdle. They all died. In the past 13 years they have sloughed off the main branches and such and are not much more than a large, tall, standing dead stump.
In a thread earlier this year on maverick blinds, I posted something about liking the blinds but not the windows. I mentioned I made windows that I thought made it flirt with scent free. A couple people asked me about them and I said I would get back to them/thread when I got back out to one...
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and dry cat food
These paired together will catch all the coons you want to catch and the occasional skunk and possum.
I agree that most of the impact is via ag but for those people that grow corn and soybean plots for wildlife, we contribute as well.
Also a large food plot business utilizes insecticides in their seed coating for some of their seeds. Here is a pic of the tag on a bag I got from Pheasants...
The next time I'm able to go to one of the blinds, I'll take some pics from inside. Season is still going on. Probably be in Jan or Feb.
Here's a pic from the outside.
I have a few of the maverick blinds. The maverick windows are horrible in my opinion but I remedied that by cutting out openings and framing them and putting in vertical sliders. They range in size from the outside edges of two of those precut windows to the outside edge of 4 of them by as tall...
In NE we have a weed control board in each county.. If you have an entity like that you could call them with an anonymous report if your worried about the can't see it from your property issue. Someone did that to me with my miscanthus gigantus that I used for a screen along a road and said it...
That was very nice of you and I'm sure the new hunters really appreciate it (they better). What you describe in your whole story is unheard of in this day and age. I don't know anybody that can get on private land without having an in/in depth connection of some sort.
Thanks for helping out...
They may not spook deer but they sure do miss lots of pic taking opportunities. I set a browning black ops next to a cuddelink and there were 3 to 1 pic totals difference. I still use the cuddes in spots I can't use a cell cam but want relatively recent info.
Good plan.
If you grow soybeans and don't mind running over a few rows, broadcast wheat or rye over the beans when the leaves start to yellow and you'll have a fine rye/wheat plot to help them through the winter as well as get some cover crop benefits in.
The same thing has happened in NE as well. Turkey numbers have plummeted. Conversations with state wildlife guys says they are seeing it all over and have no idea why it is. Lots of theories but nothing concrete.
Everywhere I have hunted turkeys I have seen them go down rows of newly planted...
My dad talked to some cattle guys a couple weeks ago and they said their calves they are selling as feeders are 80 to 90 pounds heavier in same time frame compared to other years and a friend of mine who buys feeder pigs and raises until fat hogs has his averaging 308 pounds from 20#s on Nov 29...
I had my first one on me two weeks ago and I even saw grasshoppers then too. crazy. Saw a lot more grasshoppers yesterday when I was shredding some crp
Fields, an intern did one county. He was a great guy and I hope he landed somewhere. Whoever got him in their office got a good one.
smithhunter, what that guy told you sounds like what the people said in both counties. There evidently is a new sheriff in town.
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