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Hello Plotman, I would not let any log buyer who solicits by door step foot in your timber! These guys are vultures looking for the wounded. A price they give to you may sound good but is not likely to be what your trees are worth. With no other buyers to compete with and no professional on...

Hi, I just wanted to say that it was great to meet many of the folks on this website at the Classic. I didn’t get a chance to actually view much of the show myself, since I was continuously manning a booth, but it was sure a good time. Thanks to all who stopped by our booth. I wanted to...

It is very true that few mills would be interested in a single tree, or single log, in most cases. Most buyers want 3-5K in logs available to make it worth their while. We highly, highly, highly, highly - did I mention highly -- discourage people from selling trees to individual loggers. In...

Great info here! However, be aware that there is a good market for larger shagbarks (at least, 20 inches dbh). As of a few weeks ago, these larger trees, of good quality, were bringing more than red oak and white oak! However, shaggies grow painfully slow and tend to shade out and...

Don't tell me you were watching those big bucks this am while I skipped the morning hunt! Nice bucks! Just think how big they will be next season.... Anyway.....I hunt CRP fields quite a bit and will tell you that I see the biggest bucks of the year in these habitats. But that's probably no...

Hello Bowhuntingboy, I've been using the Scent-Loc liner suit for several years now. I swore by the charcoal suits until this year -- now, I am swearing at them! Basically, what I have found is that my old suit worked well and that my new suit would make a dandy trash-can liner. I always try...

Shot a 20 pounder this morning at 6:30. Had a 10.5 inch beard and 1 inch spurs. Twelve yards broadside with bow. Flew straight up 10 feet and crashed straight down into ground stone dead. He came in with another and the other just kept strutting around the decoys after I shot. I could have...

Hey Muddy! Congrats! Hey and that was me over there shootin' the .22...just trying to help you out! Looks like it worked too! Kidding, of course! Hey, again, congrats! Raven

Wow, this is an interesting topic! Educational as well........ I got lucky and shot a longbeard this morning and he was stuffed full of red clover. Hey good hunting to all.....Raven

Hello NW Buck! Actually ladino clover has 860,00 seeds per pound!!! That's a whole lot of seed, no doubt about it. The seeds are very tiny. That said, though, I always plant AT LEAST twice what is recommend when broadcast, frost seeding clover. Clover seed is relatively cheap and it...

Hey Headgear: Super nice fish! Geesh, and I thought I was the only one around here that liked to chuck and wind for the little green fish (or in your case, the big green fish!) Actually, I am hopelessly addicted to bass fishing (and bowhunting whitetails). And the more I do of each, the more...

Hey Ghostwalker, You can't have that problem in your timber can you? You have an unbelievable place there. Of course, though, as Ghostwalker says, it often happens. I believe a big reason for this is simply because it is the peak of breeding season. During the peak of breeding season...

Hunt-m-up: That is a great point you made about planting soybeans later than others in the area! To take that to the extreme I would say, too, that a good friend of mine claims that whitetails really love beans that mature after the first frost (which often means planting them in late June...

Mathews 1, I would plant the rye as early in the fall as possible to maximize fall stand density (though late August is about as early as you can go.) Just make sure to cover the seed lightly with a drag to ensure the best germination, to protect the seed from direct sunlight, and to keep seed...

Hello, Those are all excellent choices. Much depends on food plot location, soil types and where and when you want the food to be utilized, as you probably know. Deer love soybeans -- 35% protein --the highest of all legumes -- and will start eating the plant as soon as they peek out of the...

Hello, Great question. Although I think it may be easier to list the vegetation that deer don't eat than the plants that they do....the list would be much, much shorter! Like Old Buck mentioned: poison ivy is a great whitetail food. They eat the leaves in summer and the berries in the winter...

Hello, Someone beat me to the post: the total should now be 844, after the correction. Raven

Hello, Great post idea! I started bowhunting whitetails at age 13 -- that's 21 years ago.....ouch! I just can't believe how the time flies (jeesh, only old people say that, don't they?). But I can still vividly recall balancing on that 3 inch boxelder limb when the little 6-pointer walked...

Hello, Pharmer makes an excellent point about meats: you change the health-aspect of them depending on how you cook them. Take an otherwise healthy venison cut, marinade in soy sauce, then fry in butter, and you turn it into a cut laced with overly high Omega-6 fats and high sodium. That...

Hello, I just thought it’s time to speak of the health aspect of eating venison (and other wild game). I know it may seem boring. And many of you, I’m sure, realize just how healthy venison is. But I for one am getting sick of watching so many healthy-appearing middle aged folks grab their...