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ocharry 
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Posted: 17 Jun 2020 at 9:51am |
 was out tilling new deer food plots,,,,for the first time,,plan is to break it up now,,till again about the end of july and then about the first of september just before planting,,,this is the deer killing field,,,lol,,,,the ol 170 did a fine job swinging that 6' tiller,,,made short work of working the ground
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Red Bank
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Posted: 17 Jun 2020 at 6:13pm |
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Looks good
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 17 Jun 2020 at 7:02pm |
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Plant Sept 1..... no bow hunting ? Gun starts mid Nov ?
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ocharry
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Posted: 17 Jun 2020 at 11:42pm |
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Steve...nope I tried bow hunting a few years back...didn't care for it to much...my boy is a big bow hunter...but he lives in Ohio
The deer are here all the time...year around...so the stuff I plant is for late season....on the bags they recommend mid sept....I like to get it out about mid to late august... The turnip tops and the rape dont get sweet until the first frost and at the time I plant the stuff it gets pretty big and leafy .....and then in the winter they dig the turnips up and eat those
That field will have 3 big plots with different stuff in each...this is the first year for this ...so I'm kinda experimenting to see what they like best....I have been kinda grooming this field for about 4 years now...so this year I want to plant stuff for the deer....next year could be a different group of plants
Field is about 7-8 acres and I want to have about 2-3 acres of food plots
That's the plan anyway...lol...we will see...
Did a test plot in the front field with mostly the same stuff..and planted about the same time...the deer loved it..I could sit on the patio and watch them almost every evening....lol...that plot grew by about 3 times in size this year
So there ya have it...the master plan...I have 5 cameras out year round...so I know they are here...I just want them to be fat and happy....and stay around so I can get a nice one
Ocharry
Edited by ocharry - 17 Jun 2020 at 11:43pm
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HD6GTOM
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Posted: 18 Jun 2020 at 7:37am |
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I sure hope you guys don't regret planting those plots in about 25 years. We don't have to do that here. According to the DNR we have more deer per square mile here than any place else in the USA. They will come into the yard and destroy everything you have planted. We can't raise a garden. They will destroy it. Don't even try to raise Alalfafa. It doesn't stand a chance, same way with corn and soybeans.
Something I did not know, female deer will roam for miles, but when it come times to have young, they will return to the place they were born.
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 18 Jun 2020 at 8:13pm |
Tom, you need to open a hunting club... Charge a few hundred a week... Let the guys camp out in the barn... SHOOT ALL YOU WANT !!  
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HD6GTOM
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Posted: 19 Jun 2020 at 12:06pm |
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Steve. I am surounded by 600+ acres of timber, CRP, timber program ground. The neighbor has people come in from all over the USA to deer hunt. Most are high flyers from places like Chicago, LA, Dallas, etc. Unfortunately the shot gun deer season is far too short to give us any sort of relief from these pests. There is a bow season, a beginners season, a black powder season. The guys he imports are only interested in shot gun. No rifles allowed. If they catch you with a rifle your rifle will be taken and you might receive a fine.
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DMiller
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Posted: 19 Jun 2020 at 1:06pm |
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Need to get myself a decent little 60" tiller. Have a 20hp 4wd lawn tractor with PTO and could hang off back of the 180 just work softly for wildlife plots.
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ocharry
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Posted: 19 Jun 2020 at 10:17pm |
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Yeah ..I have a 40" tiller on the back of my wheel horse and it does a supper job for garden size plots....
The tiller on the 170 is 72".... Took about an hour to do the 3 plots in this field....this thing is a bad donkey for sure...the ground hasn't been worked....all grass...it churned it up like nobody's business
I would have been out there for a long time with the wheel horse...maybe a couple days
I checked the PH on the ground today and it is running about 6.5-7.....I'm thinking that's good to go....put some 12-12-12 on it today and about an hour later we got 2" of rain.....what timing....lol
Ocharry
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