[Cougars09]

After having the good outing last night at the other fields I decided I would keep a good eye on a field near my spot tonight. I decided to go up and check the woods around the mini foodplot I planted last night. I got to the foodplot and I jumped a deer up. I just took it with a grain of salt. I decided to leave and head back to the house. When i got to the house I saw the deer I had jumped out in the field. Got my binos and looked. As soon as I saw him, I said, "Finally". It's the 8pt in the picture above. His left side is angled up just like it was last year, left browtine has a "hook" in it. He is about what you would expect for him to be. He's already to the edge of his ears and his tines are ALREADY as long as they are in the pictures above. I kinda got to breathe a sigh of relief when I saw him, knowing he hadn't been killed. This deer is truly going to be a MONSTER for my area this year. His browtines were already about 4 inches aswell! I'm pretty pumped for season. Just praying he hangs around and doesnt meet a the front end of a car. I'm going this week to hang stands and put the BIG memory card in the camera. After that I'm staying out as much as possible.


here he is LAST year

Here is a picture of my miniture experimental food plot we made yesterday. It's just kind of an expirament to see what will grow. It gets pretty good afternoon sun and plenty of water ( assuming it rains). We raked all the leaves back and then hoe'd the ground up pretty good. After that we took the seed spreader and went to spreading. After spreading all of it we took a garden rake and worked it all in. Just an expirament to see what will happen. Kinda hard to see the boundaries in the pic but to give you an idea its about 30yards by about 20ish and then right beside it we made one about 15yds in diameter in an opening in the trees. We'll see how it does in a few weeks. Any ideas of what to plant this fall for winter? For this experamental plot I planted a few different seeds to see what preformed. I mixed, Spring Oats, Ladino Clover, Alfalfa Forage Queen seed, Timothy Derby, and some "No Plow". Ill keep you guys posted on it.

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[mosouthpaw]

well soon the chase will be on. Nice buck. Still time for some antler growth yet. Time to start getting a gameplan now.

so you going to go with an airborne assault or a ground attack on this buck.

I guess i need to go buy a blind so i can try the ground attack this year, because all the rain we've had this summer the skeeters are going to be our new state bird. My area averaged about 13.5 inches of rain in June (all time record in a month) and i think they mosquitoes will be breeding like crazy and a blind will be the only real relief this year.

as for your plot, id say that if that bottom pic was your seeding area youre going to really stretch getting the sunlight you need. No plow will be your best bet from whitetail inst.

our spring and early summer has been too wet for me to get a summer plot in it sucks. was planning on doing some buckbeans/peas/lablab this summer. Oh well maybe ill just till more clover and try some oats this winter.

 

[Cougars09]

Air assault for sure on this guy!


We have actually been in a REALLY bad drought so far this year. We are finally starting to get some moisture so I decided to try to plant a few things. As I said though, I'm not expecting much but I have always wanted to see what it would do, and theres no better time than the present. I agree with the "No Plow" being the best bet. I'm also thinking of overseeding in a few weeks with "Secret Spot" or some "Hot Spot" or something thats fast growing and meant for areas like this. I think a mixture of "No Plow" and "Secret Spot" would be the ticket. With the size of this ploit not being the biggest (but big for being INSIDE the woods) it's going to require some overseeding periodically to keep it going and growing. I'll keep you posted.

 

[Cougars09]

I'm definately buying a Thermacell before season aswell

 

[huntquest]

cool pics!

 

[SouthShoreRat]

It looks to me like that boy will need a hole in him because he is starting to swell up. We wouldnt want him to blow up so in a couple of month help him out just a tat with an nice pass through!

 

[tobin01]

Thats looks like a good one! Just think, that deer still has @10 more weeks of growing time too. Good luck this season and thanks for sharing the pics

by the way, what model Moultrie is that camera you are using?

 

[Cougars09]

Gamespy 200 3.1mp

 

[tobin01]

How are the early morning and late evening picture's turning out for you. Thanks!

 

[Guest]

That's a good one, Cougar. I hope you're able to poke a hole in him!

 

[Doublelung]

Just make sure you are wearing that Double Lung Archery hat when you let the air out of him.
BTW, where is the picture of you wearing the hat I sent you?

 

[Cougars09]

Just make sure you are wearing that Double Lung Archery hat when you let the air out of him.
BTW, where is the picture of you wearing the hat I sent you?

I was wearing it when I put the plot in. She'll get the nod for bowseason this year. She'll probably get the nod for a few seasons. Thanks Again! You'll get a picture when I'm kneeling behind a big buck (or doe) this fall :sad:

 

[Cougars09]

Oh and I also forgot. We went and looked at the foodplot today and hung a stand. There is a certain seed in that no plow that there is a root comming out of a few of them. It's like about 1/2". I thought that was awefully quick. I'll update in a couple weeks with pics.

 

[Cougars09]

We got 1 treestand hung this afternoon. We also went to check the food plot to see if its holding up and to spread some more "no plow" we looked around and there was one particular blue seed from the "no plow" that is starting to sprout already! Probably about 1/4" or so but it's a start! I think we are going to go out and sit in the treestand and me in my climber this weekend. Maybe get up real early saturday morning and sit.

 

[Cougars09]

How are the early morning and late evening picture's turning out for you. Thanks!

I'll post what I have uploaded on photobucket if you want? are you talking about dark or like dawn and dusk?

 

[Cougars09]