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Paw paw is a tropical fruit that grows in North America. Paw paw is tasty and interesting, but the local Paw paw drop in September and are quickly eaten by coons and other critters. The Paw paws I planted in 2008 are bearing fruit. The fruit is tastes like banana custard.

I don't want to kill fruit and nut trees when spraying plots, but I'm hoping to kill junk trees! Does anyone have the answer?

I have had fun using mobile decoys, which bring gobblers running without any calling. This is an AC motor with a frame mounted on it. The bar at the bottom of the frame are where strings attach. The decoy with fan. This fan has been replaced by a jake fan. Getting my "Special" friend a...

While turkey hunting this morning I had four does come to my mobile turkey decoys. Each time the deer got right up on my blind, scented me and ran off. The deer ran off four times, and four times I gave a few pucks, made the decoys move, and the curious deer returned. That makes me think that...

May the New Year provide Health, Happiness, Prosperity and good hunting!

Otters were cleaning out my pond, so I bought two traps; turns out I only needed one!

It is 2:00 A.M. and I am just back from an unsuccessful track, not because the hunter missed. The hunter hit precisely where he aimed!

Deer could care less about human urine and scat. Over the years I have bathed in apple juice and tomato juice. I have bought all the latest products, like Nose Jammer, and I still get busted!

I found a shaded area on a sandy flood plain that is dominated by nettles about knee high and all of them have been topped by something. Do deer eat nettles?

To slow the spread of chronic wasting disease, salt licks, mineral licks and feeding of deer is prohibited year round in Missouri, and deer that are harvested must be taken to a tissue sampling station. Laws like this have been enacted in many other states! I discovered this new regulation...

My dogs are on Nexguard, but ticks are still a fright, and I'm afraid of tick born illness. The dogs have a brushy play area that is tick infested, and a large portion of the yard also has underground fence that's loaded with ticks, that are then carried in the house where they transfer to...

Elkie will continue to have her thread through this tracking season as she is my 3 year old and premier tracker. Heidi is 5-6 months old and is off to the races, meaning she races down a track, and I expect great things from her. Heidi is from European stock and was born in Canada to a breeder...

wbpdeer advised planting Chicory. What's a good source, when to plant, and what's a good clover seed to Chicory seed ratio?

Rather than add Rowdy to Elkie's thread and diminish from Elkie's accomplishments, I am starting a separate thread for Rowdy and Heidi to show their progression from early imprinting to deer recovery. Rowdy has already been started on liver drags by the breeder, while Heidi is just two weeks...

It's been my observation that deer switch location to avoid cattle, but then I have a neighbor that insists that his cattle have been attacked by deer and are driven from pastures by aggressive bucks. I was told that there must be a big buck on his place because his cattle are being driven away...

Deer season is almost here in MO! Other than hunting over a feeder, what are your early season strategies?

There have been 6 years of drought conditions. This apple tree was planted 6 years ago. This apple tree was planted in 2008, and put on growth prior to the drought, but it's defoliated by Japanese beetles. These are 3 of maybe 6 apples on the tree, and most of the trees have no apples.

I take my deer to an Amish processing plant, and I killed a young buck early so I could test Elkie and have her recover her first deer. When I took the early season buck to be processed there was only one other deer at the processing plant. However, when the rut started and I brought in a...