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    How did the private parcel(s) kick your butt?

    Early season is great, but if you go for the king you best not miss… because you might just be covering the place in new human scent, so that’s the gamble. I think I’m gonna draw a map of places I can go while leaving most of it untouched. I got too greedy last year, and so did my hunting buddy...
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    How did the private parcel(s) kick your butt?

    The HUNTR podcast guys were recently talking about where on properties they can (metaphorically) drip red paint / their scent. I think I’m gonna use that more heavily this year, pick limited access points to hunt and nothing else. I think we bumped off our best buck last year.
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    How did the private parcel(s) kick your butt?

    I hunt private ~75% of the time… anybody care to share why one or more parcels has been tricky? Public gets the respect these days but I struggle plenty on private as well. For me the big issues are (1) not ruining the place quickly with pressure, (2) a big swirly river valley, and (3) the big...
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    What have you learned?

    1) If I’m going to hunt an area repeatedly don’t get too aggressive and focus on a low intrusion / place where wind and ground scent likely to do minimal harm, transitional travel ambush point, because the deer will catch on, and especially a mature buck is very likely to leave. Access, access...
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    Cameras and wind direction

    Yes in the past few years I’m getting more uptight about camera sets, if possible I set the cams downwind of suspected activity and where I can access with minimal intrusion. Particularly old bucks seem to have the occasional habit of spooking and avoiding cameras so I dont think it’s a safe...
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    CWD and what I should know about it

    Ugh you just proved my “only more bad news” point. It’s not in our area (NE Ohio), so I hadn’t thought too much about it, but had never even considered this. Sheesh.
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    CWD and what I should know about it

    We don’t know anything for sure, the article posted is the first faint clue that I am aware of, that human transmission is possible. If I lived in a CWD area I would only eat venison that had been tested, just my personal weighing of the upsides vs the downsides. I don’t have a spare brain if I...
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    CWD and what I should know about it

    Again, CWD like a slow motion train wreck, I’m trying to think of one piece of good news I’ve ever heard about it. Generally it’s been a slow trickle of bad stuff. Extremely difficult to neutralize, uptake into crop plants (that we eat), eventually showed up here in Ohio, and now possible human...
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    Is it our job to stop natural extinction situation?

    Not at all intending to cross the threshold of ‘political’ because I don’t see this as political I just see it as ecological math… and before the thread gets too upbeat. Should we be the stewards of our environment? Yes! Will we be, en masse? No, we will not. In pockets, sure (think the...
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    Is it our job to stop natural extinction situation?

    That’s what is so darn frustrating, to have the capacity to do so much better, while just about every big metric says we are not. Post gets me to thinking too, pretty sure mule deer are in long term decline… if that were to continue I don’t think I’d vote to “let it happen”. I’d bet in most...
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    Is it our job to stop natural extinction situation?

    To clarify, just talking land mammals not insects. But there’s a whole other can of worms, insect populations are plunging, maybe not ants though.
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    Is it our job to stop natural extinction situation?

    I’m gradually radicalizing toward doomerism, I might be there already. Just a fun fact loosely related here - humans and livestock account for 96% of all land mammal biomass, wild animals are now 4%.
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    Soil Test Report - Help

    Depending on how much time you have, can shoot for 7.0 ph but that’s a LOT of lime depending on your acreage. I’m usually content if I can keep the ph at 6.0 or higher… I wouldnt’t put the full lime dose to 7.0 down in one year, even getting into the low 6s will grow stuff just fine. I’m finding...
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    Soil Test Report - Help

    If you’re growing clover yes you’re looking for a high phosphate fertilizer. Whatever middle number fertilizer you can find that’s % phosphorus. multiply that number by however many lbs of that fertilizer you have and that’s how many lbs of phosphorus you are delivering. I’m just making this up...
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    Does Anybody Hot Tent?

    Thanks ordered two today, did elk camps w wood stoves in 2014 and 2017 never even gave that a thought. These days I’ve got fire / CO / gas alarms peppered all through the house.
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