Today my wife and I closed on 36.5 acres in Jackson County, Iowa. There are about 22 acres of timber, a trout stream, and 8.5 acres of sort of tillable ground. Yeah, it's heaven! There is a 2000 78'x16' mobile home next to the trout stream. Here is what it looks like from above:
The red line is the approximate border...I'm not real good with a mouse on a laptop, so it isn't exact.
This morning my eldest son and I hung a couple of tree stands. We were talking about training his lab to hunt sheds. He has one that has been in the house for a while, but he didn't know if it would have enough scent on it for training. About the time he said that I looked down and saw this:
It is the first shed from my own land! It's not very massive for sure, but it certainly seems like a good omen. I picked it up, and said, "Now you have one with scent on it!"
We saw lots of sign, but no critters today. We hope to establish some switch grass in the center of the field to give them a bedding area in the center with food plots on the edges near the timber, so we can sneak in on them without bumping them out of bed...at least that's my son's plan. We have a lot to do, but we a looking forward to it.
Topic: First Shed (Read 852 times)
