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1023's 2021 Season Journal

bowhunter1023

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It felt like late September today, so might as well kick this thing off!

The girls had plans and left me flying solo today, so I made good use of my alone time by prepping my best two stands. My favorite stand is the one in the Corner Pocket, which I sprayed last Sunday, along with the Big Plot. It appears both are on their way to being ready for mowing next weekend. The clover plot will get mowed kinda low in order to clean it up and give the clover a chance to overtake all the dying/dead grass and thistle. It should come back nicely.

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We have corn on us this year and beans on the neighbors, so the goal is to have the farmer leave me some corn up top next to the clover plot and I'll plant a late crop of forage soybeans in the Big Plot. I may mix in a little corn as an experiment as well.

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I also added 2 more cams for a total of 5 now. Overall, it was a great day in the woods!
 

bowhunter1023

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Sweet! Are these cell cams? Or just regular?
4 old fashioned, one cell. I moved the cell cam to a trail that should see lots of action from deer hitting the bean field next to us and woke up to a pic of a decent buck this morning, first one I've seen all year. I may buy one more cell cam for behind the house, but don't see me getting another for the farm until my regular units crap out.
 

finelyshedded

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Gonna be another fun ride along Jesse. Looking forward to it. What a beautiful slice of heaven you have to play on too.
 

giles

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4 old fashioned, one cell. I moved the cell cam to a trail that should see lots of action from deer hitting the bean field next to us and woke up to a pic of a decent buck this morning, first one I've seen all year. I may buy one more cell cam for behind the house, but don't see me getting another for the farm until my regular units crap out.
Good deal. I've been flirting with the idea. The more and more my kids get into this, I think a couple might help keep them interested.
 

bowhunter1023

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Good deal. I've been flirting with the idea. The more and more my kids get into this, I think a couple might help keep them interested.
My girls love them, so they're worth it just for that. They like it when we're home and there's one out back and for patterning deer over bait for getting kids on deer, they're a must.
 

bowhunter1023

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Attended my first big in-person conference in 18 months today. It was at the Carlisle Inn at Walnut Creek, which is dangerously close to Berlin. It worth the drive to talk with those guys IMO. You can get Eagle beans a lot of places, but this bag came with a good convo and some quality advice. With issues getting a corn planter, and how the neighborhood turned out crop rotation wise, now's the time to experiment with late beans down in a secluded creek bottom.

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bowhunter1023

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Nuked the Big Plot again yesterday and conned my dad into bringing the big tractor back to the farm so he could till this for me. The thatch was too heavy for the walk-behind and besides, what fun is a 55hp tractor with a 60" box tiller if you never use it?!? Hopefully, it'll get turned in the next week and I'll get the beans down ahead of a good rain.

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Also got extremely lucky while refreshing the minerals behind the house. Hard to see any bees in the pic, but I had about a pound of salt left in the bag, so I dumped in this stump, then weedeated around it. I adjusted the camera and thought I heard bees, turned around and the yellow jackets were pissed I'd dumped a bunch of salt on their stump!

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bowhunter1023

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I'll be the one cleaning the tiller unfortunately. I'd like to burn it, but that's something I've never done and I'm not sure how cool he'd be with it. It's a tool I need in my tool kit for sure.
 

at1010

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I'll be the one cleaning the tiller unfortunately. I'd like to burn it, but that's something I've never done and I'm not sure how cool he'd be with it. It's a tool I need in my tool kit for sure.

While you are at it, spray that TOH in the background!! HAHA JK

Looks, great buddy!! This seems to be a killer location (pun intended).
 
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bowhunter1023

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Hit the farm on Sunday to spray all my plots and snapped this pic of one of the best white oaks on the farm. It sits in the "famed" Corner Pocket and I've progressively cleaned out underneath it over the years so the acorns are accessible without fighting the brush. It's becoming a "destination" tree.

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