5 pines farm 2012 semi live

[deaddoc4444]

This is the first thing I'M looking at as soon as I log on   I'M always sorry there is not more to read each time   LOVE IT   !  Thanx

[wooddamon1]

[goldflinger]

Looks like you have had some beautiful weather the past couple of days. Sorry about the Doe, Still thinking you will get one soon!!

[Terry Green]

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

Joel is on the makes his mark  

My update from this am shortly........no deer yet for me if you are wondering.

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

It was another very cold morning. 29 when we left the yurt! Very still. Incredible stars! The dipper seems very low in the sky!

I didn't have a lot of time to hunt this Am. Gotta work once in a while.!!

I chose a spot easy to get to, and if I saw any deer it would be right away. At the North end of my place I have a little clover field  with a blind constructed to resemble a round bale.
 
 

This picture is after this Am's hunt. from about 20 yards from the blind. The clover looks like its still frozen solid!

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

Here is the field from a little further away.   I would hunt this spot harder but for the fact its very close to my good friend next door's front yard. Only about 200 yards max.

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

at 8:15 three adult does and one fawn left the food plot just across the fence from my clover but instead of coming into the clover on their way to bed they went up the dry creek bed and on into the old pasture hillside. They disappeared in to the tangle of wild apple trees  and most likely went into the woods on the tail right under the oak where the rattlesnake almost got me. I stayed only a few minutes more and the hoofed it back home to get to my desk and start the work day.

There was still frost on the street signs along the driveway to home  

The Jackson boys have gone home . They went three for three. I have the farm to myself for a few days. A trad hunter friend is due to arrive Friday night for this coming weekend. I'll hopefully be able to post some photo's of trad  killed deer soon!

[Cyclic-Rivers]

[fmscan]

LittleBigMan, When I die and go to hevan, I hope it is your farm. Love your style with the yurt and all. Plus you share, you share your blessings with others. You also share your season with us. Thank you for taking us along. I always felt that if something good happened by you could not share then maybe it didn't happen. The best to you and yours.

[AWPForester]

EasyKeeper, that plot you questioned about is rape.  Deer love it!

God Bless and good luck to all.

[tracker1]

LittleBigMan I love this thread it is great.  It looks like the hard work on the food plots paid off they also look great

[TxAg]

Sill following.

I know what you mean alut the cold crisp morning and the stars shining low and bright

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

Actually that is not a rape field. It is turnips and forage oats.

Its good to share things with good friends. during hunting season I seem them frequently LOL!

I am in heaven every day 365 a year!!

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

What a difference 15 degrees makes! It was a balmy 42 degrees out this AM! BTW I didn't hunt last night. too windy , too hot ! it was 76 degrees! Took the Mrs. out to dinner instead!

This AM I chose another close to the office spot. I put up a ladder in this spot last spring after finding several scrapes along the trail I didn't previously see the prior fall. The trail is really the same trail that goes by the Squirrel tail stand, just a little further west. Its a short 150 yards up from the lower turnip field and about 300 yards from the back door to home.  

[jcar315]

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

I am standing and taking the above picture next to where the big scrape was. Its about 10 yards from the stand.  There is a good deer trail that runs along the inside edge of the woods and follows the contours of the lower bluffs all the way around the bottom of the farm .I think it will be an excellent place to sit when the bucks start to cruise or during late season when the deer are coming back into bed after feasting on the turnips below. Here's a shot at 20 yards on the entry trail from the hill    and another right at the entrance on the field's edge  

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

Yes those are apple trees that the trails comes in under. I got there early today and once again a deer must have heard me and came to investigate. It was pitch black when I heard foot steps and then a single snort!. When that happens I always jump about a foot off the seat of the stand! Never saw the deer  and then it was quiet the rest of the short sit. Lots of crows out and about today. Several landed in the top of the tree I was in!  Here are some photos looking down to the turnips and then west to the house.  
 

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

I do have exciting news to share. A new bow arrived in camp yesterday!

here it is resting next to my widow.    
I ordered this bow last January when I fell in love with its design. Then I found the widow last March at the expo in Waterloo.

It is a 56 inch 44 at 28 inches Hills Country Bobcat. My 2 favorite bow woods combo too! Cocobolo and Osage Orange

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

It is a shooter too!