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  1. Drycreek

    Undecided, but leaning !😁

    I went to one of my leases today to check a camera and eat breakfast with my best friend, (there’s a country store nearby that makes killer breakfast burritos). I looked at my Green Cover plot, the rye is fairly tall, I’d say 18” to 2’ average. There are at least two annual clovers in the blend...
  2. Drycreek

    Dough stage crimping

    So…..a question about crimping in the dough stage. I have a couple of plots that I intend to broadcast into and crimp. One has a Green Cover blend with added rye, the other is solid rye. If I have interpreted correctly the dough stage is when the grain is fully formed, but not wet or milky, yet...
  3. Drycreek

    Milo ?

    I’m thinking about planting some milo strips in a wide open plot on one place I hunt. It has rye on it now, and I get lots of doe traffic, but not much buck traffic. I’m thinking a strip on each edge and one down the middle. Maybe it would give the bucks a little more sense of security. What’s...
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    Sarge the Wonder Dog

    Sarge went to sleep for the last time this afternoon. It was a difficult decision that I prayed and anguished over, but I have to believe it was for the best. After consulting with his vet, I decided to put him down. He will no longer be hurting, it’s my turn now. From that little fuzzy pup in...
  5. Drycreek

    Finally Done !

    I planted my last plot for the season yesterday with the help of my best friend. It’s also the biggest plot I have. This is on my son’s lease that he asked me to join this year, and even though I hardly needed another spot to hunt, I could very well in the future. The other lease I’m on is due...
  6. Drycreek

    Card pull yesterday !

    I have a few deer on cameras at mineral blocks, my protein feeder, and my food plot. Nothing as spectacular as Native’s nuclear reactor bucks, 😂 but fun to watch and good to eat ! Despite the fact that we’ve had zero precip since the middle of June my Green Cover plot looks pretty dang good !
  7. Drycreek

    Another Question !😬

    Y’all did so well on the Elbon Rye question I thought I would press my luck. 😁 I’m about to change my entire method of planting. In the past I have went with WW, MRC, Daikon radish, or AWP for my fall plots. Whatever was growing prior to planting I usually nuked with gly. As my soils are sandy...
  8. Drycreek

    Elbon Rye

    Simple question. I’ve always been a wheat guy for my fall plots, and as I’m changing my methods up going forward (if I can get it to work) I will be changing over to rye grain mainly for its allelopathic properties. I’ve planted a little rye in years past and always bought Elbon rye. Is this...
  9. Drycreek

    I have a question !

    I’m about to convert a roller into a crimper, actually a drag roller into a three point crimper. I have a good friend who is a great welder/fabricator so I have that part handled. My question is; how far apart do the “fins” need to be on the drum ? I put this in the food plot subforum because I...
  10. Drycreek

    Evolution of a food plot

    This food plot started out at about a quarter acre with several large red oaks in it. I mainly just planted wheat in the fall and ran a corn feeder from September until February or March. I got tired of dodging trees while planting and seeing half a deer behind them so a few years ago I took...
  11. Drycreek

    Good day to burn

    I had two big dead trees, one at the edge of my yard, and another that was on my fence line and leaning toward the highway. I had a professional tree guy take them down, cut them into pieces and I hauled them to a place I could burn them. While I was at it, I took down some young pine trees with...
  12. Drycreek

    Getting a few pics !

    Ran my cameras yesterday and got a bunch of pictures. It’s fun to me to mark the progress of the fawns and bucks this time of year.
  13. Drycreek

    New crop in an old plot

    I’ve had this food plot for a number of years, probably at least twenty. It has grown in size over time from a 1/4 acre to .6 of an acre so it’s mostly too small to grow any kind of a spring/summer plot and expect much out of it. This year I decided to plant a product from Green Cover that I...
  14. Drycreek

    Plot screen ?

    Let me preface this by saying that I’ve been on this lease for 6 years now I think. During that time the planted pines have grown enough (and enough of them have died) that my plot is no longer as secluded as it was when I started hunting here. I intend to plant some plot screen seeds from...
  15. Drycreek

    Sweetberry Honeysuckle

    PlantNet says that is what this bush is. What say you guys and is it beneficial to deer ?
  16. Drycreek

    Rio Grande Turkey

    My best friend and I just got back from our annual spring turkey hunt. We are privileged to be able to hunt on a friend’s property near Post, TX where he has a nice house that we stay in. He has a water guzzler as well as water troughs for the cows that his neighbor sometimes runs on his place...
  17. Drycreek

    A few trail cam pics

    Just a few pics I thought were interesting or different. The top three were all taken from a camera that was just set to watch the pipeline for possible trespassing. A neighbor had some longhorns get out and they visited us. The night pic is self explanatory, it’s dinner time ! And of course the...
  18. Drycreek

    Fishing again !

    My best friend and I went fishing again yesterday on Lake Fork. It was pretty cool, stayed in the forties for most of the day, and windy. We go with a local guide that has proven ability to find crappie. On top of that he is fun to fish with. My buddy, and we have known one another since the...
  19. Drycreek

    Axis, it’s what’s for dinner !

    Three of us went to the Hill Country to do a little grocery shopping last Thursday. Axis deer, mostly escapees from high fenced operations and their offspring, are abundant in most of that area. We happened to be near Fredericksburg and Luckenbach, TX. Texas Parks and Wildlife sets no laws on...
  20. Drycreek

    Are y’all ready…..

    …..for this little winter breeze we’re in for ? I know you guys from OK and farther North experience some cold weather each year, but single digits or even teens are not in our vocabulary here. We survived “snowmageddon” last year so I guess we’ll make it through this also. My front porch is...
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