Just wondering…turkey season is winding down, hopefully the birds in the freezer, what are your plans now.  Sure there is fishing, but for the part of your mind that is all about hunting what now.

Well…. coyotes are ALWAYS on tap. Too many of the damn things. Can’t trap in this state, so ya gotta shoot ‘em. Local ranchers love ya for it. Helps get access for other types of huntin’ too! But it’s gonna warm up, and some big-n-bad ### bull frogs are gonna start talkin’. Nothin’ like a nice mess of fried frog leggs (and a beer) to get ya in a good summer mood.

I guess I’ll be working on food plots and atv trails. Got real hot here this week. Neighbor needs help with his fences. Good politics there. Been jogging two miles every other day. Got to get to the archery range and shoot my new hoyt bow. Been wearing it out in the basement at ten yards. Tried to trade in a shotgun I won at the REMF banquet for a 270 pistol barrel for my encore. Gun shops don’t want no Turkey made guns. No offers at all. Imagine that. Made up some posters for my son-in-law to put up where he works. Only asking $250 for it. You know that’s kind of not right to be buying foreign guns to raffle off. Guess I learned not to buy any tickets for foreign guns. Thought I could get a couple hundred for a trade at least.
    I started making a list of all the mail I’ve been getting asking for money. I’m going to keep it going for thirty days. I don’t know how my name got on so many list. Some are good charities, but they must pass your name out to everyone when you contribute to one. Made me quit giving to all of them. I’ll keep joining the NRA, but I think I could sign over whole my pension to them, and they’d still send letters wanting more. Tired of getting letters from politicians wanting donations to do what they were elected to do.

so ron tell us how you feel!  LOL LOL so much crap in the world and everyone wants to make money on it.

all i want is my little piece of dirt and for the world to leave my stuff alone. have friends come over and fish or sit on the porch and enough food to make a turd everyday and i am happy!  LOL LOL

sounds good to me. Like the part about “one a day” turd.

Last weekend, my brother, dad and I cleared 20 shade trees from our woods, tilled up the dirt and waiting to get a soil sample back on the food plot we made. I’ve picked up some red/white clover, along with a fall blend to plant later this month.  Nothing like watching the crops grow in August to get your blood pumping for the fall season.  I’ve also captured some nice bucks on camera already this spring.

RC,
    Food plots are fun ways of extending the hunting season. Neat to have the cameras with the pictures. I planted white clover and turnips on mine this year. I had some clover from last year. I mowed it last week with a walk behind self propelled trail cutter from Swisher. Iilked to damn near killed me. This week I’ve been remodeling the cutter into a pull behind ATV cutter. I dropped the transmission out and put an axle with flat proof wheel barrel wheels on it. I’m right in the middle of putting a tow bar on it. Taking a break after dinner. I looked at the pull behind trail cutters, and they seemed too expensive and too big to get in my truck or ATV trailer. The walk behind one is only 24 ” wide. After the rest of my clover comes up I’ll have about two acres to mow. About an acre and a half taking the turnips out. They tell me you have to mow the clover once in a while to get the weeds down. I thought it was good to not to have to plant every spring, but you have to mow the clover.
    Nice photos. I’m going to put my cameras up this weekend. I didn’t find any sheds this winter, hope some bucks move in from some where!
    I bought a small video camera that I’m going to tape on my bow this year. It’s about the size of a package of gum. I’ll let everyone know what I think of it after I get it and try it out for a while. I don’t shoot good enough to post any video on the forum. If it works maybe I will just to show the quality of the video.
    Well got to go finish my tow bar.
    I tested my soil when I started planting plots and they said I needed several tons of lime on my two acres. I’m doing alright without it. I think?
                                                                                                                                                DSLYR

Ron,

Clover is a great perennial food plot. very little maintenance and it provides a great source of nutrition for the doe that are droping their fawns and for the bucks that are putting the growth on their antlers. I usually mow down my clover when it hits 18” high. If you mow it down it keeps the clover soft, otherwise the stems turn more woody.

Dslyr1/Northwest RC,
Thanks for the tips on food plots. Been wanting to do one. Thanks to you I have ideas on what to plant, and now I just have to find somewhere the cattle wont get to!