Recent content by ollie085

When planting dormant, store bought potted trees, would you top them like most barefoot nurseries recommend at planting?

It's all baby steps and good PR at this point. Last year we put 40 acres in pollinator and a couple of hedgerows in with a mix of hardwood shrubs and evergreens. Hunting started this fall, archery only with the prospect of a very limited shotgun season for spring turkey and fall whitetail...

They land is owned by my company that has given the employees permission to hunt and even tossed in some money for conservation. Its a pretty sweet deal. Right now we have access to 500+ acres with plans to open up more.

I've been thinking about EW as screening. Looking through Welters catalog, I don't recall seeing EW but similar crops like forage sorghum and Sudan grass. What's the difference?

I'm not sure upland hunting will ever be in the equation but a lot of the guys like to at least see them while out hunting or scouting.

I have a few fields I'd like to break up and diversify so that I'm not heavy in one aspect or crop, i.e. alfalfa. So here's one of the fields I'd like to hit the reset button on. Its roughly ten acres of alfalfa with road frontage on the east and right of way on the south. Our group is...

I've got free use of a couple different PTO mowers. Anything that would work up the ground or spread or plant seed is what I'm lacking. IF I play my cards right I might be able to get the same kind of funding for two or three years.

If all you had was a 60-100 hp tractor and someone handed you $5k for equipment, what would make your shopping list? Tiller, drill, all-in-one plotmaster, etc...?

By hammered I mean the plants are at most 12 inches tall and will have one to two pods when mature. Lots of sunlight finding some dirt.

My beans are getting hammered and I'd like to broadcast into them so I have a food source after leaf drop. Would rye and clover work best?

I didn't. I just let that part out. I had been typing long enough! Ha! I loaded him up that night and our travel route to get him processed was right passed my hunting area. So we hopped out, went and got my arrow that I left in the ground and took him out of the bed for some pics.

Yeah he has the very slightest crab claw.

After hard at it for a decade and one blown opportunity a few years back, I finally harvested my first buck. When I first started hunting, I was nineteen, cramming books in college, trying to figure out what I wanted to do with a biology degree. About the same time I found my focus...

I'd also like to know what a trip like that runs. Looks like a great time!

Is that savages 212 slug gun?