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timberjack86

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What are you guys doing to get ready for next season? I got on a lease for the first time ever. I am fixing to explore the property all summer and set out salt and cameras. Just to get a feeling for the area and the deer. I used to hunt another property about 3 miles away, so I know the area has pretty good buck producing potential. I am pumped!
 
I got back into a lease that I had previously hunted for 9 years, we just finished up turkey season on it which gave us a chance to check out some old and new spots, over the summer we will be getting salt licks and cameras out and putting in one food plot
 
I will be putting out salt and making sure the batteries in the cameras are new.

I have to spray the clover, then fertilize and plan on putting in some honey suckle. Later I will plant some throw and grow.
 
I just picked up 550 acres, not sure how much it's been hunted in the past. It's in a prime area but it's mostly pasture area with alot of clover in the pasture. It does have about 38% woods, looks to be very thick, some hills, some bottom area, two creeks, and two ponds.
I have seen some big deer in pasture areas in the past.
Putting out various stands this weekend and of course mineral blocks and cameras.
 
I'm overseas, so I don't get much time to personally do much thru the year to prep, but I do have three acres of corn that I have getting planted in the next week or so thanks to jmb4wd :)
 
timberjack86 said:
I am fixing to explore the property all summer and set out salt and cameras. Just to get a feeling for the area and the deer.
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Just remember that which bucks are using a property, and the deer patterns in general, can be very different from summer to fall. Camera monitoring a property in summer can be very useful, but it can also seriously "muddy the waters" of hunting season decision-making.
 
Cussing the weather and various circumstances that keep interfering with my planting my 3 acre food plot. :( I'm wanting to try something different this year by planting the center of the field with RR beans surrounded by a "rim" of RR corn. Sometime in Sept, I plan to replace the beans with No Plow and leave the corn standing. Should give the deer something to eat all Winter long.

I've also been pruning and fertilizing fruit trees and oaks. Doing other work in the area of my planted trees such as spraying undesirables and bush hogging. Salt/mineral block replinishing too.
 
Hunter 257W said:
I'm wantig to try somehting different this year by planting the center of the field with RR beans surrounded by a "rim" of RR corn. Sometime in Sept, I plan to replace the beans with No Plow and leave the corn standing.
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That's an interesting plan. Let us know how it works out.
 
Daydreaming mostly! Most, if not all, of my scouting/planning was finished before, and just after season ended. I know where I'll be setting up a couple more stand loc's for the upcoming year via info from travel patterns noticed during the end of the past season. I have high hopes once again for the upcoming year!
 
stand, salt, more stand, a few tripods. working on 4 properties right now hopefully can pick up at least one of them. few food plots trimming lanes love going late july and august to scoute fields and see what we see. all scouting is done just got to get the stand in place on the old places new places just have to see If I get them. got some bush hogging to keep up and normal stuff like that.
 
BSK said:
timberjack86 said:
I am fixing to explore the property all summer and set out salt and cameras. Just to get a feeling for the area and the deer.
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Just remember that which bucks are using a property, and the deer patterns in general, can be very different from summer to fall. Camera monitoring a property in summer can be very useful, but it can also seriously "muddy the waters" of hunting season decision-making.
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Yeah I wont put too much stock into the bucks I see during the summer but Its 2600 acres so mabey a few bucks will hang around.
 
This cool, wet weather has got the clover growing well outside of the foodplots. The 70 acres I leave alone as a sanctuary is covered in honeysuckle and blackberries. Other than a couple acres of Eagle Beans I will drill this week and the 5 acres of native grasses and wildflower that are in the ground, I plan to let nature do it's thing. The mineral is out and the cameras are running. My only goal is to stay away from the cameras for 3 weeks at a time.
 
BSK said:
timberjack86 said:
I am fixing to explore the property all summer and set out salt and cameras. Just to get a feeling for the area and the deer.
Click to expand...

Just remember that which bucks are using a property, and the deer patterns in general, can be very different from summer to fall. Camera monitoring a property in summer can be very useful, but it can also seriously "muddy the waters" of hunting season decision-making.
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Very true! I've beat my head against the wall many times wondering why all the great bucks I've got on camera completely disappear when september hits!
 
On 2600 acres you could have some bucks that reside on your property yr around.. I Dunno contributing factors, but on our property almost every buck killed is on camera the summer prior. Sometimes they shift quite a bit tho. The only bucks that seem to disappear are some of the bucks we get pics of near our property lines...
Some people experience very different circumstances tho.. Some nearly zero bucks stay on the property come mid to late sept...
 
BHC said:
On 2600 acres you could have some bucks that reside on your property yr around.. I Dunno contributing factors, but on our property almost every buck killed is on camera the summer prior. Sometimes they shift quite a bit tho. The only bucks that seem to disappear are some of the bucks we get pics of near our property lines...
Some people experience very different circumstances tho.. Some nearly zero bucks stay on the property come mid to late sept...
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Every property is unique. In some areas, even 500 acre properties see very little shifting of bucks seasonally. In other areas, 3,000 acres properties see SIGNIFICANT shifting of bucks.

I wish there was some identifiable "factor" that I could point to that would identify which properties will see a lot of shifting and which won't, but I sure as heck haven't found that "factor" or combination of factors yet.
 
BSK said:
BHC said:
On 2600 acres you could have some bucks that reside on your property yr around.. I Dunno contributing factors, but on our property almost every buck killed is on camera the summer prior. Sometimes they shift quite a bit tho. The only bucks that seem to disappear are some of the bucks we get pics of near our property lines...
Some people experience very different circumstances tho.. Some nearly zero bucks stay on the property come mid to late sept...
Click to expand...

Every property is unique. In some areas, even 500 acre properties see very little shifting of bucks seasonally. In other areas, 3,000 acres properties see SIGNIFICANT shifting of bucks.

I wish there was some identifiable "factor" that I could point to that would identify which properties will see a lot of shifting and which won't, but I sure as heck haven't found that "factor" or combination of factors yet.
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I think the does may be a little sweeter on the other side of the fence if you know what I mean ;)
 

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