Mid July in the Woods

[Hoyt]

Corn field behind my place..probably going to be on into the deer season before it's out due to all the flooding and late planting. That's Shawnee National Forest at the back of cornfield.
 

Little pond right across the fence from Shawnee.
 

Trail in thicket going to pond in cornfield...trimmed a tree today right off the trail.
 

Whiteoak ridge along a drainage
 

Scrape on whiteoak bench that deer keep fairly clean all yr.
 

Creek bottom and my buddy cooling off
 

Going home and somebody's drag'n.
 

Home and one last cool off before rolling in the dirt.
 

[DEATHMASTER]

Looks like you found a great spot.
Put in the time and you will put meat in the grill.

[Mike Most]

Dont forget the tick check.....

Great pictures.

[Hoyt]

Mike I treat my clothes with home solution of Permethrin I make up and never get any ticks or chiggers anymore. But my dog got ate up today. He's been flipping and flopping all around and I've pulled at least 50 small ticks off him.

I'm pretty sure it's chiggers that are driving him crazy though. I was treating him with Frontline Plus Flea and Tick solution and a high powered tick collar that was suppose to work, but he was getting just as many or more ticks while using them so I quit.

Think I will give him another dose just to try to get rid of the chiggers..if it will. He just acts like he doesn't feel good when I use that stuff on him.

[SheltonCreeker]

Hoyt great pics. You said shawnee you can't be too far from me. Where abouts by the big woods do you reside?

[Hoyt]

Shelton, I'm down in Gallatin, Co. on the NE edge of Shawnee.

[SheltonCreeker]

Yup not far at all. Happy hunting this fall. Hope you get one of those monster bucks outta the big woods to come shake hands.

[Hoyt]

Good luck to you too Shelton. I think all the big bucks must have moved up north with the rest of them. I haven't even seen any big sign around here in a couple of yrs. Use to run across telephone pole size rubs every yr., but the last 3yrs. pick'ns have been slim. A 3" dia. rub is a big one nowadays and very few and far between.