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20 minutes ago, Loco said:
Worst humble brag ever!
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.
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Damn dude. That’s rough.
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:-
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What protein time feeder do you have? I've typically just sling corn because of all the damn racoons. I put on eliminator plates last weekend and filled the hoppers with Buck Ration to try and get some protein going. This is our 3rd year to set up for deer on my place so adding things as we go along. Really want to do more protein but can't do it with all the racoons. Not sure if I have the deer population to keep a timed feeder cleaned out before the night when the coons come out. I had to set my cameras to 3-5 minutes between shots or I would have a thousand picks of those damn things climbing all over everything trying to get to the corn. I've built several rodent cages with chicken wire but then the corn hits it and falls straight down so the corn piles up right underneath the feeder.
Going out tomorrow to check on the feeders, pull cards and see how well the eliminator plates helped.
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.
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What the hell did you hit??
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: -
We’re back baby! New prop, shaft, rudder, mounting hardware, etc.
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You’re gonna want to buy some hog panels and set up pins around your feeders. They work great and the deer just hop over.
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? -
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.
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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!"
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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.-
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9 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:
...And don't skimp on your glass.
I'd rather hunt with a Weatherby Vanguard and it's crappy stock, but topped with decent glass (Leupold/Vortex/Nikon) over a Mark V with a sub-par scope (Bushnell, Simmons, etc.) any day of the week.
We are entering/in a "golden age" for quality optics and low cost rifles that shoot well. Its really amazing.
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8 minutes ago, deadshank said:
Holland & Holland
Touché
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7 minutes ago, Robin Masters said:
Have a look at Wal Mart for a cheap deer gun....
Username does not check out. I would think Robin Masters would be a London Best man. Probably Westley Richards.
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1 hour ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:
Shooting hogs isn’t an issue.
We have 5 blinds, 4 of which have feeders in pens. They get taken down nearly each time we are out.
We have considered 1 acre plots but fencing costs along with the oversight of it make it a bit of a challenge.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.
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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.Mind me asking who made it? Wasn't Kleinguenther was it?Here’s a pic
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I'd love to do this on our place as it is similar size, but I fear the hogs, and now cattle, will tear up all our work.
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:
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23 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
How much is a .300 Weatherby running these days? Mine ain't custom, but it's plenty nice.
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.
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LOL - I have absolutely no need for a crossbow, but damn I'm jealous and want one of my own.
I’ll sell you mine, extra bolts, broadheads, and a nice case for $200. Ready to hunt. Bought it about a year ago, only shot about six times, haven’t had time to hunt with it between rifle hunting trips.
I just stumbled across a custom .300 Weatherby that I can’t live without and need to raise some cash. -
My app is saying I have 50 messages but when I click on the envelope nothing is there.
Mine has been showing between 1-5 new messages this week (since the site maintenance?), but there are no new messages when I click the the envelope or check the website. -
1 hour ago, EZ$ said:
That was a lot of nonsense to get through, but did he actually say Texas had a soft schedule???
Yeah, that line was just adorable. Here's ESPN's SOS rankings:
RK TEAM W-L PROJ W-L WIN OUT% CONF WIN% REM SOS RK FPI
1 UCLA, Pac-12 0-0 5.5 - 6.5 0.0 1.4 1 6.8
2 FSU, ACC 0-0 7.3 - 4.8 0.0 3.7 2 13.4
3 LSU, SEC 0-0 6.1 - 5.9 0.0 0.3 3 10.4
4 Texas, Big 12 0-0 8.6 - 3.8 0.4 20.3 4 14.4...
29 Texas A&M, SEC 0-0 7.3 - 4.7 0.0 1.1 29 12.8
http://www.espn.com/college-football/statistics/teamratings/_/sort/sosRemainingRank/order/false
I agree this is peak Looch.
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The LFDH with Diane Birch is pretty great. I don't know anything about the music business, but it seems like them not cutting an album was/is a missed opportunity.
It looks like the show is resuming in the fall: https://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/articles.html?n_id=11414
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1 hour ago, BabaYaga said:
Another option down the road is to look at protein feeders that keep it off the ground. That way less is wasted (turns to mush when exposed to moisture). Look at trough feeders with a timer (like Lamco or others).
The four timed protein options I know of that people have had good success with are Lamco, All Seasons, Krivoman (uses the Hammer system), and the Hammer on a hopper from any other manufacturer:
https://www.allseasonsfeeders.com/collections/protein-feeders/products/electric-2k-pro-evo
http://www.krivomanoutdoors.com/feeders/
http://www.thehammerfeeder.com/products.html
It's nice to have a big one so a fill will last through a month or more in the summertime, but they are pricey. The "good" news is that these feeders are so in-demand that you can sell them used a few years later for probably ~80% of what you bought them for if you change your mind. (I bought a $1000 Krivoman and sold it three years later for $800 after I built some bigger custom hoppers)
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Chinese hogs are no joke:
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1 hour ago, Spaulding Smails said:
What type of protein are you feeding? I've fed lots of different stuff, and in my opinion, brand nor %protein matters as much as consistent availability. I still change what I'm feeding now depending on which feed store is on my way to the ranch.
Are you buying bags or in bulk? I like buying in bulk because its easier to load, and one of the feed stores I use will let you use their trailer for free. That said, I still load bags by hand about half the time because I'm coming from a direction that doesn't have a good bulk supplier. I arrange my setups so I can pull up next to the feeder with my truck and load the feeders while standing on my toolbox, a lot easier/faster than climbing a ladder.
Feeding year-round protein or only during spring / summer? I like having protein available year-round, because rainfall and pasture conditions can be so seasonally unpredictable. But the deer will generally consume a lot more in the summertime than in the fall/winter/spring if there has been some rain.
An anecdote: several years ago when I was feeding free choice, we had a nice group of old (7+ yrs) bucks we watched through the season. I ran out of money/time/motivation to keep the feeders filled in late January, and the weather was dry and the food plots didn't really get up and going until March that year. We lost every single one of the old bucks. In my opinion, they got adjusted to protein feed and corn, and then post-rut when they were most run-down, the feeders went dry, the pastures were in a "low-protein" (dry) condition, and the bucks died. It happens with pen raised deer - there are stories of people turning big pellet-fed pen raised breeder bucks out onto a ranch and finding them dead within weeks; it can happen with cattle as well.
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We set up three spinning feeders and we're feeding 50/50 corn/protein twice per day at 2 second intervals. I would recommend switching to just corn around September/Oct. in your spinners. Protein that gets rained on doesn't get eaten much, and the deer will really be craving the calories/carbs in the corn as the rut starts to ramp up, and it will reduce your costs some.
We don't have any tanks on the property, but we're putting in two cisterns in the coming weeks. Setting up float valves and hoping to keep the hogs from tearing those up. The goal is to draw more wildlife in from adjacent properties and keep them there. Right now, I think we're getting mostly deer passing through. Water is YUGE. We have two tanks that never go dry and 3 other seasonal tanks. One of Dr. Deer's studies showed that if a deer had adequate food, water, and thermal cover in close proximity, it's range would shrink down to something like 80 acres.
QuoteWe do have an old pasture (approx 2 acres) that was fenced and we're assuming was a small food plot at one time. The fence was in such disrepair that we took it down completely. I haven't pulled the trigger on a tractor yet, but hoping to do a food plot out there in the next few years. We've already spent way more than we wanted on fence, a new road and getting the cabin set up, so any additional improvements are probably going to take a few years for funds to recover, but I'm excited to start playing with the protein to see what we can develop.
If you have any farmer neighbors out there, you could talk with them about planting your plot (assuming the plot area is accessible from the road). The most important part of food plotting that gets overlooked is packing. I built my own cultipacker, as they are a little pricey, but they are essential for good germination.
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I can't thank you enough for this post. We just bought our place in Kimble Co earlier this year. Put out standard feeders this spring, but considering switching to straight protein next year. The food plot idea is most intriguing. I'll PM for more details if you don't mind.
Ask away, by all means. By “standard feeders” I assume you mean corn spinners. What I like to do is put a corn spinner and a timed protein feeder at my main setups (two main setups on our 180 ac, one additional corn spinner at a third setup). This benefits both me and the deer in my experience through the following:
1. Showing up to hunt and finding your feeder battery is dead or the feeder has been empty for awhile is aggravating as hell. Having two feeders doubles the chances one is operational when you roll up on a Friday afternoon or whatever and are looking forward to having some nice stand time and seeing some wildlife.
2. I only throw corn for 1-2 seconds from my spinners, and I only open the protein feeders for a couple minutes morning and evening. I maintain good range conditions, plant food plots, and try to maintain appropriate stocking numbers. I don’t want the deer to rely on the corn and protein; more that it’s an extra snack that they like and which gives me an opportunity to watch them for awhile. Co-locating a corn spinner and a protein feeder (mine are about 25 yards apart) will in general, increase the time the deer spend at the setup. They will usually try to get a little of both, and if the protein feeder is crowded, hunting down some corn gives them something to do while they wait for the crowd to die down.
I used to feed protein free choice, but in my experience feeding free choice the deer stay more nocturnal, and I have a good amount of loss to coons (and loss to hogs on previous places I hunted). With timed protein, I have almost no nighttime trail cam pics, vs probably 50% nighttime pics feeding free choice, and no coon loss. (hell yeah!!!!)
Also, feeding free choice, the consumption can get absurd, and the deer will just be lazy and eat protein instead of getting out in the pasture and hustling a little. We average 50 lb/day of protein consumption total between the two feeders open only that couple of minutes morning and evening.
In Kimble county, you might be able to do late fall plots (like I do), if you have some soil, spring plots are probably out unless you have irrigation.
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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)