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Small Improvements
#2762262
03/14/19 11:39 PM
03/14/19 11:39 PM
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Posts: 512 Alabama
blahblahblah
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What are small improvements that you guys believe help make big differences on properties? Example: trails, new food plots, hinge cutting, funneling etc.
You can take a man's life, but you can't take his freedom.
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Re: Small Improvements
[Re: blahblahblah]
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03/16/19 08:57 PM
03/16/19 08:57 PM
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Fldoghunter
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I have quite a few white oaks on the ridge at the back of my place. Thought about doing some hack and squirt to there competition hoping they'll spread out and produce more. Not sure how much difference it will make, but it would be cheap and pretty easy if you could do something like that.
May the sound of hounds never die!
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Re: Small Improvements
[Re: Fldoghunter]
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03/16/19 09:35 PM
03/16/19 09:35 PM
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Remington270
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I have quite a few white oaks on the ridge at the back of my place. Thought about doing some hack and squirt to there competition hoping they'll spread out and produce more. Not sure how much difference it will make, but it would be cheap and pretty easy if you could do something like that. I’m going to do that around persimmons this year.
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Re: Small Improvements
[Re: blahblahblah]
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03/17/19 08:09 AM
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toothdoc
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If there is any way you can make a few small kill plots either by hiring a dozer for a couple days or old school with chainsaw and manual labor, to me that's one of the best things you can do to a property. It makes hunting with kids a little easier. It gives the local does something to eat on and keep them nearby and therefore the bucks will be there too. Turkeys will hang around.
Trails or roads are also huge. It allows you to more easily access parts of your property, they can be planted, deer will use the roads also. My favorite places to hunt on our place when the kids are not with me is sitting on some of the smaller 4 wheeler roads on the back side of my property. Deer make scrapes all down the roads.
Last edited by toothdoc; 03/17/19 08:11 AM.
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Re: Small Improvements
[Re: blahblahblah]
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03/17/19 09:25 AM
03/17/19 09:25 AM
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blahblahblah
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I am opening up a small food plot on 30 acres of land. Then I am opening some small areas on the east side of it to let sunlight hit the ground hoping some native vegetation grows making for browse and potentially some doe beds. Then on the west side of the food plot further away I am doing some hinge cutting and placing logs on the side of a slope. I am connecting and blocking off trails deer already use coming from the west to east letting the trail circle downwind of the food plot and potential doe beds. My stand is about 25 yards downwind of the trail with brush in front of it so the deer won't turn toward the stand.
Last edited by blahblahblah; 03/17/19 09:26 AM.
You can take a man's life, but you can't take his freedom.
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Re: Small Improvements
[Re: Remington270]
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03/21/19 05:40 PM
03/21/19 05:40 PM
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AUwrestler
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I have quite a few white oaks on the ridge at the back of my place. Thought about doing some hack and squirt to there competition hoping they'll spread out and produce more. Not sure how much difference it will make, but it would be cheap and pretty easy if you could do something like that. I’m going to do that around persimmons this year. Spring is not a good time to hack and squirt btw. Sap is traveling up the leaves and don't get a good kill. Also some entangled root systems could kill good trees you are keeping. Great idea, but heads up about some of the trouble.
I believe that this is a practical world and that I can count only on what I earn. Therefore I believe in work, hard work. -George Petrie (1945)
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Re: Small Improvements
[Re: AUwrestler]
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03/24/19 03:12 PM
03/24/19 03:12 PM
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Fldoghunter
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I have quite a few white oaks on the ridge at the back of my place. Thought about doing some hack and squirt to there competition hoping they'll spread out and produce more. Not sure how much difference it will make, but it would be cheap and pretty easy if you could do something like that. I’m going to do that around persimmons this year. Spring is not a good time to hack and squirt btw. Sap is traveling up the leaves and don't get a good kill. Also some entangled root systems could kill good trees you are keeping. Great idea, but heads up about some of the trouble. Thanks for the info. I wouldn't get back up there till June probably anyway. Also, thanks for the caution about it killing other nearby trees.
May the sound of hounds never die!
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Re: Small Improvements
[Re: blahblahblah]
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03/24/19 03:16 PM
03/24/19 03:16 PM
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Posts: 14,340 ArmPit of the south
DeerNutz0U812_
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Docks will play if its a largemouth deal cause even if it's cloudy you still want to be able to plant your peanuts....Docks is the deal ...
Did you know that Beer Nutz are over a Dollar...and Deer Nutz are under a Buck...
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Re: Small Improvements
[Re: blahblahblah]
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04/05/19 10:45 PM
04/05/19 10:45 PM
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Posts: 512 Alabama
blahblahblah
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I don't normally feed, but this year I am mixing co-op protein pellets with corn and roasted soy beans. This is on top of the other stuff I mentioned earlier.
You can take a man's life, but you can't take his freedom.
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Re: Small Improvements
[Re: blahblahblah]
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05/13/19 06:55 AM
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Rmart30
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I like to bush hog trails off of the green fields back into the thick stuff. Deer will start using them. Ive had cams on old logging roads that got very little travel down them. Bush hog it and almost the first day will get some deer using it.
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching - even when doing the wrong thing is legal. Aldo Leopold .. (except when it comes to trailer tags)
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Re: Small Improvements
[Re: Rmart30]
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05/13/19 07:12 AM
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dirkdaddy
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I like to bush hog trails off of the green fields back into the thick stuff. Deer will start using them. Ive had cams on old logging roads that got very little travel down them. Bush hog it and almost the first day will get some deer using it. Yep. I've seen the same. They'll often bed right off of these little trails in the thick stuff, too. Gives them a combo escape route/cover for rest. I've probably done more "improvements" to my property by slowly going in reverse with my bush hog into the "thick stuff" than anything else I've done.
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