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  1. Today I passed a poor boy ski boat that might be G650 approved, although I’ve never seen one with the white things stuck on the sides.
  2. One other year-over-year, here’s my probable target buck from 2016:
  3. Thanks! That wide 10 point is older, probably 5-6. He’s probably peaked out, but we have a nice little strain of wide rack genetics that I’ve been hesitant to hinder. Here he is in 2016: 2016 again with his nose in the feeder: Here he is in 2017: He ended up breaking off both brow tines last year before rifle season, which probably saved his hide. We have hunting pressure on about 50% of our perimeter. I really can’t ask for much more, because as you see, legal bucks are surviving. The other ranches don’t feed as well or provide as good of pasture conditions as we do, so we tend to hold deer pretty well on our place during feeding times.
  4. Belton
  5. We made it out this afternoon, new rudder even stayed attached.
  6. I concur, doctor. The Belize incident happened right after they had passed a law saying all inshore boat drivers had to be native Belizian. The dude didn’t know one end of and outboard from the other and ran us into a dock at about 20 mph. (I was a passenger on a dive)
  7. Definitely no brag. No injuries, not taking on water, still under power = just an inconvenience. The bad wreck I was in was in Belize in the mid-90's and for a second or two I thought we might be in serious trouble, one of our group was injured.
  8. Yeah, it sucked, but I’ve been in worse boat wrecks. We were only going about 10 mph when we hit. Thank the Lord we weren’t taking on water fast or anything (rudder was sheared off at the hull), and I was able to steer us to that boat ramp you see in the photo using a wake board. Here’s a pic of the damage:
  9. Let us know if the eliminators help. I have exclusion cages on my corn spinners that keep the coons out. If you see deer on your place, you have enough deer to use the protein. If you only have the mechanism open for 1 minute twice a day, it just fills the feeder head, a total of maybe 5 pounds of feed. Deer really guzzle protein, they’ll finish that off in a day. I had custom hoppers built and I use the Hammer feeder mechanism, which is basically a timer, a linear actuator, and a gate valve: http:// http://www.thehammerfeeder.com I posted a few links to other timed protein feeders a few pages back. (All Seasons, Lamco, Krivoman) I’m a huge believer in timed protein. I don’t have the budget/time to feed free choice. I’ve heard guys say “if you don’t feed free choice you might as well not do anything.”, which I file away with a bunch of other nonsense deer management BS I’ve heard over the years. My low fence deer have made big improvements on timed protein.
  10. Solid limestone. This rock shelf is unmarked, I hadn’t been in this part of the lake before. I was 100+ yards off the shoreline, about where the red pin is:
  11. We’re back baby! New prop, shaft, rudder, mounting hardware, etc. Hope to get out this weekend.
  12. I need to fence the feeders off so I can move cattle to this side of the ranch as well. Going to have to cool off a little before I’m doing fence work though. Those chocolate beams with the ivory tips are nice on that buck! Are you in an antler restricted county?
  13. One other item of note - there were over 4000 pictures on the camera that is set close to the timed protein feeder, and there was not a single raccoon photo, and very few nighttime deer photos. That was over a two week duration. When I was feeding free choice, the bucks would be very nocturnal, and I would have hundreds of raccoon photos.
  14. 686

    Shit My Kid Says

    Insight into kid brain priorities: Kindergartener: "There is a girl in my class that is in a wheel chair and she can't talk, so she has an ipad that she types into and it talks for her. It's so neat. I wish I was her!"
  15. Pulled some trail cam photos yesterday, the few showers that came though over the last week really helped. Loaded the feeders to get us down the road another couple months, watered the saplings. Also had some pigs on camera for the first time in 3 years, only came through one night though.
  16. We are entering/in a "golden age" for quality optics and low cost rifles that shoot well. Its really amazing.
  17. Touché
  18. Username does not check out. I would think Robin Masters would be a London Best man. Probably Westley Richards.
  19. Can you put the plot against an existing fence to cut down the cost? Fall food plots west of I-35 aren't really "attraction" plots you will get a lot of use hunting over, they are more "nutrition" plots that get the deer through the winter.
  20. I don't mind at all, especially since I just called the shop and they sold it. Damnit! It was made by Flaig's; who was basically the Kleinguenther of western Pennsylvania. Here’s a pic
  21. 1. Cross fence or electric fence around the plot if possible. We have cross fencing to keep the cattle out. USDA will cost share with you on cross fencing for rotational grazing. What is perfect is to keep the cattle out until about April when the plot starts getting longer (when the deer stop using it) and then let the cattle in on it. I need to fence off my feeders so I can let the cattle onto the half of our place with the food plots. 2. Plant fewer, larger plots. Small plots tend to get overgrazed early and not recover 3. Plant a mix of seeds, not just one thing. Depending on conditions, one thing may do well while the other doesn't, i.e. this year the wheat and oats did really well and the year before it was the elbon rye and clover. Also, I believe research shows a mixed plot gets more use. Here's Turner Seed's Fall Deer Mix: Barley12% Oats12% Rye12% Triticale12% Wheat12% Austrian Winterpeas10% Crimson Clover4% Essex Rape4% Frosty Berseem Clover4% Purpletop Turnips4% Yellow Blossom Clover4% Yuchi Arrowleaf Clover4% Hairy Vetch3% Alfalfa2% Silver River Clover1% From February 24th this year:
  22. This is a ~50 year old custom gun built on a Mauser action, with a AA to AAA grade walnut stock. The kicker for me is that I have another custom rifle made by this same shop (that went out of business in the ~90's), so it would be a bit of a collectible for me. I found it for $900, so kind of a relative bargain for my tastes. It's a buyers market for me right now, because it seems old custom hunting rifles aren't really en vogue with most of the gun buyers, and production hunting rifles have gotten so good and so inexpensive that it has driven the market down across the board. New Weatherby Mark V's are ~$1600-$3000 and Vanguards are about $900. How do you like shooting yours? I was looking for a 300 win mag (which I can shoot comfortably in a ~9 lb rifle) when I saw this gun. Its only around 8 lbs, so I may need to install a mercury recoil reducer if its not comfortable to shoot.
  23. I’ll sell you mine, extra bolts, broadheads, and a nice case for $200. Ready to hunt. Bought it about a year ago, only shot about six times, haven’t had time to hunt with it between rifle hunting trips. I just stumbled across a custom .300 Weatherby that I can’t live without and need to raise some cash.
  24. Mine has been showing between 1-5 new messages this week (since the site maintenance?), but there are no new messages when I click the the envelope or check the website.
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