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Thats cool!!!! Great pics!!!!
right on! gets my blood pumping, especially that last one with all the spots! thats the one I am looking for come fall.:biggrin
Second picture rocks! 1:30 am is about right when I have been seeing them on my camera. Just hope it cools down enough by Sept 15 for them to come out later/earlier.
I think we will be ok. if they are used to this weather, it wont take much of a cool down and they will be moving good. I dont know if its the drought or food shortage or what, but I am a auto body guy, and I am fixing more deer-hit collisions this summer than normal. this tells me they are moving more than normal already. like I have said before, if this drought keeps up, find a little pond way back out of the way and you will surely connect.Quote:
Originally Posted by nvrgvup444
I also understand that this year muzzel loader season has been replaced with "alternative methods" season. which means most any weapon other than a long rifle will be legal. I like this, it says I can carry my pistol if I wish.Thumbs Up
Wow so south point your seeing more deer repair than normal? I agree with all this drought a pond out of the way will sure be the ticket to finding deer.
ya, normaly we see a lot of deer hits during spring green-up. right about the time the does drop their fawns. then we dont usually see just too many until late august when they really get on that evening feeding pattern. I would say we have been averaging 2 deer hits a week lately. much more than normal. can't say for sure why, but I am thankful for the extra work!
dug out the ol hoyt last night, time to give it a once over and start shooting some. also bout time to start thinking about planting some fall food plots. they gonna be important this year, come november. as dry as it has been, I look for acorns and other food sources to be on the light side this year. my walnuts and hickorys in my yard are already starting to fall.
South point what part of Missouri are you from? I am still up here on the Iowa state line selling fireworks and I had to go to Trenton, MO last week to take down a fireworks tent. Most of the corn was only about 3 feet tall and it don't look like its going to make anything. Lots of areas up here are telling people to cut back on their water useage. And there are some guys in southern Iowa buying water for their cows.
Talked to mom and dad a few minutes ago and they took a cow and calf to Buffalo Livestock Market yesterday. The cow was getting really old and they were afraid she would die in this heat! They said that they had never seen so many people selling cattle at this time of year.
DW, I am from washington, just a little west of st. lou in franklin county. man its dry here too, but not quite so dry that farmers are buying water for their stock! the corn around here looks so-so, but I don't think it will make too much. for sure a hard year for the local farmers. I think it might get worse before it gets better.
Keep that stuff coming man I love looking at still photos.
You may need to add a watering tank next to the feeder. I have shallow pan up by the chicken house that I have been keeping water in. the rabbits, squirrels and birds have sure been using it. Catch them there all the time.
Pond about 30 feet from the feeder.Even got some hogs showing up on it.
I am keeping my fingers crossed that there is still some water left in a few of the ponds that are close. Most of them are pretty shallow where I hunt from the field run-off..:bashQuote:
Originally Posted by south point
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4:21am lol.
found out a few years ago that even if a feeder is a 1/2 mile away that if deer are traveling to it from their bedding areas that you cannot shoot them(it's considered a baited area).You don't have to know it's there to still be breaking the law.So be careful where you hunt or you might end up with a fine and lost of permits.It seems to me that it should have a little bit better wording so a baited area is alittle more confined.I don't know if my neighbors have a feeder going or not ,they aren't real freindly if you know what I mean.
Very cool....
I also heard that some types of deer licks were considered illegal baiting. I talked with a Conservation Agent about this at Burton's Bait and Tackle in Smithville. My question to him was, "Why does everyone sell the stuff if it is illegal in Missouri?" He told me a very astute answer, but I can't remember the details. It had to do with the salt composition of the block, salt vs minerals etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by crappiedave55
I always thought you could have salt and mineral licks but you had to remove them like two weeks before the season opens but I could be completely wrong.
salt and minerals are ok,nothing with grain ,fruit,molassas,ect.
So I can spread corn on the ground but I can't put a block with corn in it down. Is that what I understand?
ya'all, feeding grain and whatever mineral licks you want are perfectly throughout the year. it is just illigal to HUNT over those grains. grains and such must be removed completely a full 2 weeks before any hunting is done. any mineral licks with grain or fruit in them are not legal. we used to have feeders on our place, to be honest it seems to make the deer more nocturnal. sure there are more deer on your property but it dont help when they leave before daylight. a few years ago when corn prices went way up, we figured out how much cash we spent feeding the deer, turns out you can put in some serious food plots for the same money and still be legal to hunt right over them. and you will see way more deer in well made food plot than at a feeder.
They've changed the rules on salt/mineral licks , depending on what county your in mdc dont want you putting them out because of cwd . Better check the web site for the info
:cheers2
Right, minerals and salts are good, grain and fruit are not, although you can just mow down an acre of corn and hunt it. You can't use minerals or salt licks in Sullivan, Adair, Linn, Madison, Chariton, or Randolph counties, there is also no point restriction in those counties due to CWD.
CWD = crashes with drivers.
Choot em... choot em all.
Not illegal to bait here.Just cost a lot of $.