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What do you need to do to get ready for the upcoming deer season? I’m building stands and feeders. I finished the platforms for stands. I’m ready to butcher some wood.
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As long as there is darkness.... there is no season! At least that’s what I heard, where and when I grew-up! memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
“I’d like to be a good rifleman…..but, I prefer to be a good hunter”! memtb 2024
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Applied fertilizer to alfalfa fields last fall, killed several coyotes after the first of the year and this spring planted acres and acres of corn and beans.
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Did controlled burns this Spring along with food plots. Bought trail cams (cheapos in quantity) and cut some cedars.
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Zeroed two rifles and one revolver. Worked brass and now I'm loading it for those three guns. Packed all of the stuff that will be in my day pack and started hiking on hills in the evenings after work.
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Just finished mowing dry spots on my farm
Meeting friend who helps me with food plots to make a plan to re-do some old Durana clover plots and put some of it in Chufa for the turkey and ducks
Load development pending for 2 rifles
Mineral spots were refreshed back in the winter - couple of them probably should be refreshed again
Big project this year is to enclose my stands to hopefully avoid the annual hassle with burlap, etc. Thinking I’m going to try underlayment
Will fill feeders and reposition cameras in next couple of weeks as well
Always, always something to do. 8 months of maintenance for 4 months of hunting every year.
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Keeping salt blocks in place. Rotating some scopes, checking zero.
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Deer season never ends for me... its only limited when i can shoot them. Im always doing something hunting related.
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It never ends, building feeders now.
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Deer season never ends for me... its only limited when i can shoot them. Im always doing something hunting related. Same here. The day after I’m tagged out I start gettin ready for next year.
What man, on his death bed, ever lamented, "God, I wish I had spent more time at the office."
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Trying to get a head start on my projects to clear my plate for the fall, wasting time working up new handloads for a 7x57, and zeroing a couple newer optics on rifles. Never ends.
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Looks like the rain will hold off till the weekend. Going to be doing some food plot work this week. Next week will be for the birds,putting in a sunflower plot for dove season
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Long list this year as last year my stand was damaged by a storm and with out power cutting plywood in 100 degree fall Texas weather was rather challenging. I have one stand that’s totally mine on a 400 acre lease and my area is around 40 acres and a creek.
Here’s this years list.
1. Build longer stand legs and raise stand
2. Re foam inside of stand paint and caulk, add new hardware, carpet,plexiglass, rifle rest,
3.cut new shooting lanes
4. Start food plot
5.possibly add another feeder and camera
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Memento mori ( remember you must die) enjoy every day for tomorrow you may not wake
You can always borrow and pay the money back but you can never get the time back
Everyone hunter should own a fine rifle, life is short.
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Down 20 pounds since February. Working on wife’s 6.5x55 project, my 7.65x53 project (about 4 years of dormancy on those-coincides with kids), still applying for hunts but have a pretty good idea of what I’ll have this year.
"For some unfortunates, poisoned by city sidewalks ... the horn of the hunter never winds at all" Robert Ruark, The Horn of the Hunter
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Working on deer feeders now
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Im walking and riding my bike.
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I'm going to smack some axis does next week.......gonna hopefully fill up the freezer. No better wild game on the planet IMO.
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Yup. Garden for veggies. Fruit trees and bushes for dessert. Rifles and (of late) crossbow for meat, with a few fishies thrown in for variety.
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