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First time on stand

October 21, 2009

It was my first opportunity to bow hunt this year but excitement and confidence waned a bit as I watched the smoke from the burn barrel. There was little consistency to the wind direction and this would drastically cut the chances of a twenty yard or less encounter with a deer or pig.

Confident Shooting Makes Better Hunters

October 08, 2009

As fall approaches hunters begin thinking of sighting in their rifle of choice. Ethical hunters should do everything in their power to humanely harvest their quarry. Sighting in your rifle helps ensure that your rifle will hit where it is aimed. Ideally hunters would shoot year round and continuously improve their skills, but with busy schedules and rising cost of ammunition, this proves harder each year.

Managing Native Vegetation for Deer Forage

October 08, 2009

One of the most common questions biologist hear is, what do I need to plant for deer? Most hunters are familiar with all the commercial types of forage available for food plots as well as the old standbys such as oats and wheat for winter and cowpeas for the summer. While food plots can be a beneficial management tool for supplementing deer forage, they do have disadvantages. The largest disadvantage being that during droughty years when the deer need the forage the most, the food plots are likely dead. On the flip side, during wet years, the food plots are growing great but there is so much native vegetation, the plots are not utilized much. The solution, manage what is all ready their, the native vegetation. How often have you seen it so dry the greenbriers died?

Fall Food Plot

October 06, 2009

Hopefully you have completed your fall food plots this past weekend and received the just in time rains. Saturday afternoon, my friend Dennis and I broadcast oat seed on two plots that totaled about five acres. A drag harrow was used to cover the seeds. Before we were able to load the little John Deere tractor back on the trailer for the trip home, the rain started.