(P) Fall Field Preperation and Buck Pictures

Well, we have been back at it the last couple of days. Dad and I have been working on deer stands and preparing our fields for fall food plots. We had soooo much rain this year that I have had to trim all of our shooting lanes again because the vegetation growth has been significant. However, I only have 4 more stands to finish on our main farm with almost a month before opening day, so I feel pretty good about it.

The weeds have been so bad in our fields this year, we had to plow and disc the fields. Usually we only have to disc them a couple of times. We are planting a one acre field in Whitetail Clover and three other fields in Pure Attraction (mix of winter peas, oats, and brassicas). All of the products that we use are made by the Whitetail Institute (except when planting winter wheat, corn, milo, and soybeans). We are also going to plant an acre of winter wheat, which is seed that a local farmer gave us. The land owner made arrangements for us to get the seed for free (bonus)! After two days of work, all 4 fields are now ready for planting. It is just a timing game as we wait for some rain in the forecast and try to get the seed down prior to its arrival.

I checked my Bushnell trail cameras and was pleasantly surprised to see a couple of nice bucks on them. The first picture is of the biggest 4 point that I have ever seen. I wonder how old he his. He has great potential if he stays alive for another 3 years.

The second picture is of the Big 4 and a buck we call the Crab Claw 10. He is a mainframe 1o point with short main beams and long G2's. We have seen him for the last two years and he was always hanging with the Big 12 (pictured in the top of my blog page). I am not sure if the Big 12 made it through the winter. We have not been able to get a picture of him this year and he was a fairly old buck last year.


The last picture is of a nice mainframe 10 point that we have not seen before. It is always nice to have new bucks living on your property. That is why you need to get your trail cameras in the woods. This buck looks real similar to a buck that we call Spike. We call him that because he has spikes coming off his G-1's. Spike is a mainframe 10 with huge 8 inch brow tines (pictured in the top of my blog page). I hope he is still around. Anyways, this is still a very respectable deer. I got this picture of him walking a field edge at 2:51 in the afternoon.



Well, keep me posted on how you guys are doing out there and please send me any good trail camera pictures that you get.