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    Fencing question

    Most all deer will and can jump over any fence that is not close to 6 ft. high to get what they want. I have seen them do just that for all my time watching deer and growing corn beans, and hay over the last 55 years. Your train of thought for food plots is fine depending on just how much time...
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    Looking for 55 gallon barrels…

    In some states the use of plastic barrels is prohibited, because muskrats and beavers chew holes in them and sometimes make homes in them. This is not to mention all the other plastic items floating or on the waters edge from where then were discarded. The plastic barrels are hard to keep under...
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    Coyote dogs and Private Land Deer Hunting.

    My dogs were trailing a coon and treed it in a fence row accross from a mans house about 10:30PM. I was on my way to get the dog when I heard a gunshot near where my dog was. It was coon season and the dog was not on the persons property at any time. When I asked the man why he shot the dog , he...
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    Coyote dogs and Private Land Deer Hunting.

    Those that think they should shoot the dogs might want to talk to a lawyer about what could happen if they were to shoot someones dog. I have had this happen to one of my hunting dogs , and the person that shot the dog was sued and lost the case. It only cost him over 10,000 dollars plus the...
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    Coyote dogs and Private Land Deer Hunting.

    I have been on both sides of the fence on this issue. Hunters using dogs for any wild game do have the wright to retrieve their dogs from other peoples land , and must leave any weapons at the property line while retrieving the dogs in my state. The land owner must place the required NO...
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    Hedge

    Sounds a lot like the timber that I own here in north central IL. The use of a track skid-steer with a brush mower/grinder to make a few trails and get rid of the MFR an Honeysuckle in the perimeter and a creek crossing would be good in my thoughts. The biggest trouble is the mowing that needs...
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    Crossbows

    A lot of people that never bow hunted have went down and bought crossbows and have started hunting here in my state. Since the state has allowed crossbow hunting, I have seen many people that are not safe while out hunting. I have seen 3 people on one quad with loaded crossbow going thru a...
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    Doe Factories

    This whole acreage is only 15 acres. It is a strip of ground, with a very small stream that is feed by about 5 springs, and is around 1000' wide and just over a half mile long. It is surrounded by grain crop fields, and has timber that over 5 years old now. I thought about having the walnut...
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    Doe Factories

    When I bought my first timber I wanted to create a place where the deer would want to live. It took me a few years to get the timber where I thought it needed to be with food plots, bedding areas, and trails for the deer to use. Salt licks were made using some stumps of the trees I had cut down...
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    Biggest sprayer tank on atv?

    Going to a 4 gallon tank would be to much weight for the ATV. Best bet would be to get a larger garden trailor and put the sprayer in it , and get a longer hose for the spray gun handle for use while spraying fence rows. That or get a compact tractor with a 3 point lift and get a 60 gallon...
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    $ Ruining Hunting? 2 different issues….

    You do not have to wait. It is that way in Illinois right now. You ether lease, or buy ground there, pay the taxes on it , plus try keeping the trespassers and the DNR sharpshooters off your land. It is a never ending battle. This is about the only way you get some good hunting.
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    Crossbows…

    It was fine the way it was, disabled, senior, or doctors excuse before the politicians got their pockets padded. Now I have seen kids 13, riding 4 wheeler s, with crossbow loaded, thru a chiseled plowed field, lust looking for anything to run out so they could take a shot and not even going to...
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    Week 3 Legislation. There are some head scratchers here.

    You are very correct about all the outfitters in Illinois. They have bought or leased a lot of the best hunting ground in the state. The rest of the hunters are left to hunt the public hunting areas of the state or where ever they can find some one that will allow them to hunt. I was lucky...
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    Tillable cash rent questions….

    As long as the curent renter is, and has taken care of the ground, and the taxes are being paid, then I would mayby ask him for fifty dollars more, and see if he will pay it. Otherwise I would let him keep renting it. Farmers in todays state of finances are being pushed to the limit with seed...
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    Land Prices Out of Control

    There are several farms that have been sold to foreigners around the northern part of Illinois in the past. If one would look at the books at the courthouses, they would see that most of the land companies are from other countries. I have seen over 10,000 acres that is this way near me. The...
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