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Same for me out of Bass Pro Shops Corporate Office since January and still looking.

The one tree I did not get cut this spring is the only side apples are not on now. Makes a big difference. You might want to try this, will you should see earlier use in you turnips http://www.nutri-plotadvantage.com/fertilizer_attractant.htm

You did here the Knight has stop manufacturing not sure what their status is.

Remote tree just for first season get other tree cut away open up canopy and then lime. Wait till next year to fert. on. Nothing on turnips but Sugar Beets are something new to try.

QDMA Convention Review Well if you are into Deer Management you really missed a great information and educational time. DAY 1 David Hewitt, Ph.D - A Whitetail Delicatessen: - The Importance of Diversity in a Whitetail's Diet. Open up the Canopy Give more than just one food source at anyone Time More than one food source even if wet or dry Vitams A and E could be the only thing a deer could end up short on with all that he explained Craig Harper, Ph.D. - Maximizing Forage Availabilty Beyond Food Plots Really woods base, love to burn, burn, and burn, Get that canopy open Get rid of your junk trees Don't just rely on food plots. Karl Miller, Ph.D. - Mast Production on Your Land: Looking at the Whole Picture Again open up the canopy David Osborn - Fruit and Nut Orchards for Deer - Tree Selection, Planting and Care This was a GREAT, GREAT seminar Plum Thickets 45 degree angle on apple tree are stronger hold more fruit when trimming Cut sprout below graft and root sucker off Grafted trees and bare root like the most Talked about Honey Locust and Mulberry Trees Tons of stuff North American Fruit Explorers is a great resource - An organization of amateur growers of fruits and nuts. http://www.nafex.org/ For you guys that have used Century Farm Orchards Take a look for KEENER http://www.centuryfarmorchards.com/d...ts/keener.html Keener Seedling: This heavily russetted apple with a slight red blush originated in Lincoln County, NC around 1880. It is medium in size, sweet, firm and very disease resistant. It is unique in that it ripens extremely late and can hang on the tree until late November. It has a white flesh and is good for fresh eating, cooking, and storing. I talked with him afterwards about my remote crabapple I found and help me out a lot and told me about the above apple DAY TWO Roger Sigler - Finding Shed Antler with a Trained Dog Also dogs are trained for blood trailing Very impressive I am really considering on getting one Brad Mormann - Advanced Trail- Camera Setups to Capture Mature Bucks - Hang your Camera and Then Hang your Stand No 1 thing on this Move the camera often and with least disturbance. Really did a good job on show certain bucks at multiple locations and then using map both aerial and side views to locate stands and buck movement back and forth between sites. Randy DeYoung, Ph.D. - Fine Scale Buck Movements During The Rut: Where Exactly are They going? Now that I have been to Four Convention and have seen GPS collars in Canada, Maryland, Baton Rouge - Louisiana and South Texas , which is what is being show. Quailty Food Source is the driving force and that is my own conclusion. With Marlyand Study being about the closet to Missouri deer behavior and staying in about 300 acres but going on excursion but coming back. Kip Adams - With QDMA - Where the Big Bucks Roam: Latest Trends in Harvest Statistics and Distribution of Record-book Bucks Which has some GREAT information on CD and copy on the WEB. http://www.qdma.com/media/WhitetailReport09.pdf Grant Woods, PH.D - Fine Tuning a Deer Management Program: What's Next after Balancing The Adult Sex Ratio and Establishing Food Plots No one thing I got out of his was the QUITE WATER SOURCE deer tend to magnet to that because they can still hear some where remote and quite water source. Mickey Hellickson, Ph.D. - Maximizing Hunting Opportunity Through Advanced Habitat Management Talk dealt with is operation in IOWA but is head biologist for King Ranch in TEXAS which is 850,000 acres Edge Feathering around food plots Building Travels lanes with brush and fence inside property Open up the Canopy in the woods Making water like small lakes help with travel patterns His entire thing is available on Face Book but I am not a FACEBOOK person so someone else is going to have to find that link. Let me know if you find it. Cory VanGilder - Case Study: See Inside a Deer Herd Before and After Predator Removal Program. Coyotes are a big deal in killing fawns 54 out of 60 killed by coyote ain't a good thing Brian Murphy - QDMA 2009 Whitetail Report: Key Issues and Current Trends Go back up to the link for the Whitetail Report During the Whitetail Expo I got to learn about a lot of different things I have not seen before and to The first great company I talked BuckLunch which is Sugarbeat seed for food plots. http://www.bucklunch.com/ Learned a lot about the sugarbeat industry and what great people talked with them for an hour. Learned that unlike turnip sugarbeats don’t need that first frost. I have been wanting to try some for years but never heard of them in the south. Told me to plant them in the spring will do much better and not in sandy soil. Once deer ever dig one up the will keep coming back along with eating the tops. Also learned that Missouri SUCKS we are ranked 35th with only 35 schools in the National Archery for Schools Program. Picked up some information on Durana Clover which I had planted this year, always help to have more info. Also have a list of High Sugar Plants that someone had a blend which was neat to see Another food plot company had a garden plot which I had everything but two items, but the one that stuck with me and I talked with them about is the Pumpkins – They say the deer just tear them up and eat them and the turkeys love the seeds also. Mental note for next year. Also a very cool custom made metal signs laser cut looks like no website to look at. Walnut Grove Hunting Products – Was their again this year they have some neat different products I bought the BOOGER last year and keep it in my pack. I know that Jerry Martin with Bass Pro Shops bought three of their CAP POPPERS for muzzleload hunting. http://www.walnutgrovehunting.com/ Their new item is POCKET SEAT it looks neat anyway did not get one. Another company which has a TROPHY BAG KOOLER which would be great when it hot to hold deer until the temperature fall. http://www.trophybagkooler.com/ If you are in the Market for a Row Sower for food plot this one look cool. http://www.bestoutdoors.com/shop/ Another person that was their was Jerry Peterson who has was been very nice to me over the year he is the President and Founder of Wood Wise Products – Have been around since 1985 making tons of different calls I have bought a few over the years. http://www.woodswise.com/ Also Eagle Seed and Nutri Plot where on hand with forage soybeans and during seminar when Grant Woods mentioned EAGLE SEED, the stampede for their product went wild even from the professionals. Here are the seminars I did not go to. Saturday Alex Rutledge and Eddie Salter – Hunter Specialties – Hear how two can make the hunt more fun Dan Perez – Whitetail Properties – Holding, Growing and Hunting Big Bucks on a Small Tract Lee and Tiffany Lakosky – The Crush – Q&A with the #1 couple in Hunting Rodney Dyer – Hunters Specialties – Tools for the Food Plotter Sunday Alex Rutledge and Eddie Salter – Hunter Specialties – Hear how two can make the hunt more fun Lee and Tiffany Lakosky – The Crush – Q&A with the #1 couple in Hunting Rod White, Olympian – The Rod White Land and Game Co – The Last 100 years Celebrity on hand for the weekend Rod White – Gold Medal Olympian Archer Tim Farmer – KY Fish and Wildlife Keith Burgess – Primos Shane Smith – Primos Chris Ashley – Primos Alex Rutledge – HS Eddie Salter – HS Terry Rohm – Tinks Jeff Simpson – Heartland Bowhunter Dave Poteat – Inside Outdoors Tim Anello – Inside Outdoors Dan Perez – Whitetail Properties Lee and Tiffany Lakosky – The Crush Jerry Martin – Bass Pro Shops Kelsey Konrade – Bass Pro Shops Next Generation Randy Oitker – World Record Holding Archer Zac Cooper – Outdoor Allstars Note this ZAC COOPER who is 11 will be bigger than any modern day hunting celebrity to date you just watch. He got up in front of the crowd at dinner of hundreds and stole the show, what a great speaker. I have never seen anything like it. Even sat with his grandparents they are proud. If the stay on the straight and narrow and don’t let it go to his head, he will be everywhere in the hunting TV. The only thing that bother me about the show is the fact at the NWTF has the who who of the hunting world and the QDMA has a sampling. With deer hunting driving the economy of hunting you would think more would be there to help bring in bigger crowds for the QDMA like they do for the NWTF. For me there is not better event because I am there for the management professionals. Well that is it hope you enjoy.

Try this if you can plant soon. ForageUltra is a spring annual seed blend that includes three varieties of true forage soybeans, peas, and sweet sorghum designed to provide a blanket of green forage throughout the growing season and provide natural cover for whitetails to browse in. The soybeans include two different stalk varieties growing 5-6ft. tall and a long maturity soybean that grows vines up to 20 ft. long. Both soybean varieties produce bean pods as well. We use a very palatable cowpea variety that is very attractive to whitetails. The exotic sweet sorghum variety grows and average of 10 ft tall; it is very sweet and attractive to whitetails. the variety of sorghum acts as a support plant for the vine soybeans, allowing the plant to grow up the stalk and reach for sunlight. This blend is unique because it provides +25% protein and up to 12 tons of plant matter per acre. Keep your Forage Ultra plot weed free by applying pre merge herbicides such as Pursuit, Prowl or Squadron. “The jungle plot”, Forage Ultra is a spring annual seed blend that includes forage soybeans, cowpeas, sorghums and kenaf. This blend is designed to offer cover and high protein enriched food source throughout the growing season. If not wait till last summer FallPerfect is a fall annual seed blend of cereal grains and forage clovers designed to give you the perfect balance of nutrition and quality for your whitetail herd. This fall blend includes triticale which withstands freezing temperatures very well and is palatable to whitetails from planting into late January. FallPerfect also includes cereal rye which grows very quickly and is the most palatable cereal grain. This variety produces a lot of forage very quickly (7-8 thousand pounds of plant matter from planting to April, protein level of 15-18%. There are two varieties of clover in FallPerfect, Arrow leaf and Crimson; both are high quality forage producers. Arrow leaf thrives in the spring and crimson grows well in the fall, both have a protein level averaging at +25%

That's correct it does not replace it all and is very complicated on how it works, but it does. The strips show area sprayed and the area not sprayed.

In December of 1933 my Grandparents got married one of the first things they bought was this Iron Board. My mother had a local artist paint it and gave it to me. Thought it was pretty cool.

I put down two applications, this was the second. Scary picture, sorry but real life. I was bow hunting in the morning and stripped down to spray. Wish I had the other photos of me planting these plots at 2:00 a.m. This stuff in some field test they where doing increase sugar level in 15 minutes if I under stood correctly. Some of the vistors.

Here another plot that because GAS prices had such a big effect on my wildlife management last year, dozer price when up, liming truck went up, fertilizer went up!!!!! I tried something I would not have ever tried before. I do mean this I figured it was a gimmick. Had not intention on trying. But it is for REAL. For you that are interest the liquid type fertilizer to save money, but have your doubts. This was a winter plot November 9th, 2008 - Saddle Food Plot - This plot was dozed in in August and limed and about half the fertilizer need by soil test but used the Liquid Nutri-Plot Fertilizer and Attractant on this to save some money. March 14th, 2008 - Saddle Food plot This is one of 5 plots on the land this one is 63,000 sq. ft. and the deer really hammered this Nutri Plot Fall Perfect Blend and I had added Turnips and Wheat. Multiple Game Camera photos, bow and gun shots taken and passed by multiple people Matter of fact watched deer feed in it the day I took the photo they have absolutely mowed this down to the dirt.

Great Seminar on Forage Soybeans Learned some neat stuff. 1. Forage Soybeans can tolerate lower PH don't have to have that perfect 7 and P and K aren't as important. So if you can't get their don't panic but he had a great example You have three size drinking straws. PH7 being the largest diameter straw, and PH5 being the smallest straw you still get the liquid but maybe not as fast. 2. Deer can't not over browse Forage Soybeans unlike RR Soybeans. 3. If you are going to plant in rows then prefer 32 inches apart but that is just a preference not rule. 4. Some common sense stuff - Leaf size on forage soybeans is alot larger. If you have a deer eating 10 x10 area and the leaf size is bigger then getting more nutrition. 5. Forage soybeans over alfalfa for planting- alfalfa will get tuff until cut again. But with that in mind if it was me and I had alfalfa I would cut it just before season open. 6. Reseeding - Looks like my plan of having strips this year may be out because I have so much reseeding - Unlike corn it will mature and grow again. 7. Plant you plots with Protein for the Sept, October and Carbohydrates for the November, December 8. Who ever seed mixes you use if they look pretty and the deer not using it, what the use. The best food plots mixes are the ones that are browsed heavy and lots of droppings. 9. Clover for deer is like a wave on providing deer what it needs but when it at it's lowest spot is when chicory is at it's highest. 10. To get a mature crop June 15th in SE Missouri is the latest you should plant.

With the great help of others. Here is Power Point Version with as much information that I could find in all my files. http://www.missouriwhitetails.com/video/mainfoodplot.pps If that does not work here is pdf http://www.missouriwhitetails.com/video/foodplot3.pdf For some of you that are thinking about or maybe never heard of planting Forage Ultra with Forage Soybean this year and for the ones that have planted already this year for the first time. Good Luck. Here are photos of my main food plot in Bollinger County, Missouri I hope your turn out as good as mine did last year. I planted two bags last year because I had never tried it and now six bags this year in all the food plots. I used three of their products last their and had great success.

Missed the opening day for the first time ever of Missouri Turkey Season but had a great time St. Johns 1 - Dalphin Fish 1 - Wahoo 2 - Great Barricuda 2 - Yellow Fin Snapper 1 - Cernoa Snapper 1 - King Mackerel 1 - Bonita 1 - Horse Eye Jack 2 - Trigger Fish Lost 3 believe one was a Shark since it cut the metal leader Got rid of the bad MOJO About 3 years ago bought a full mount turkey gift certificate at a NWTF banquet. 2007 passed on 12 jakes and should have shot an adult gobbler but waited till it was to late. 2008 hunted 17 days never heard a gobbler. Since that time me or my son has not killed anything. Well have rub my horse shoe and nothing has happened so yesterday rub the metal chicken that I have found and I final shot at a Jake that I first let pass. Well then was going to eat it but decide to get rid of that bad MOJO turkey mount instead. Larger Jake so still look good. Taxidermist picked up the bird and told him if you don't here from me by Monday go 17.2 lbs 5" beard 1/4 spurs It was raining so hard that it took till they where 10 yards away before I could tell if they where jakes. Then let them go out to 70 steps before I convinced myself, Had to hold my boony hat up so I could shoot. 24lbs 8 oz, 11 1/2" Beard, and 1 1/4" Spurs Guess what bad MOJO is gone. Switching out Turkeys to have mounted. LOL Any one hiring out their?

Talked with the owner of the Turkey Tail Saver today and order one for my homemade tail for my homemade gobbler decoy. Very Very nice guy to talk with. It is pain to carry and also to pack on atv and to pack on trips in the truck but I think this will make all the difference. Plus I feel safer not carrying that fantail around. http://www.turkeytailsaver.com/cart/ Anyone else tried this yet?

The steel is 8'-0" Diameter and the steel height is 16"

Here is pic of the one Wood Duck Box I got up this year. Here is pick of the Fire Pit which is almost done.

National Park Service Ban on Traditional Ammunition I hate when I see the future. So far 2 3 6 and 7 are in progress Predicted on November 5th, 2008 on another forum Here is what I see happening. First. Just look at California, and Illinois 1. Say good by to Farm Bill that will help wildlife or hunters? 2. Guns will be chewed on slowly, but in the mean time bullet will have a two fold atttack. 3. First lead bullets to save the enviroment will be outlawed. Raising the prices a. The they will just raise the prices with reason of crime, victims etc. b. Conservation that is pro hunting will be chewed on slowly, just like road kill. Conservation will turn to Management of Wildlife without hunting. 4. Welcome to European Style of hunting, price of hunting tags will HAVE to go up because the money will be taken away. So unless you have the money to pay for tags, bullets, etc. Then you will not do it. Because of that less tags sold, prices will continue to go up. Only States like Missouri and Arkansas and other that have the 1/8 cent sales tax for conservation will survive these tough times to a point. 5. To pile on while it down, your taxes and my taxes will go up, gas prices will seem cheap at 4.00 a gallon, so managing for wildlife will start to take second fiddle for survivial. It will be a coasting time. 6. Business in the Hunting and Fishing Industry will start elimating lots jobs of Pro-Staffers and employees because of taxes, to keep their bottom line the same. Survival of the fitess. 7. Conservation Groups like the QDMA, NWTF, DU, DW, RMEF, QU, PF and Game and Fish Departments will take a big hit, people you see today in those jobs, will disapper to a point, some will have more radical changes some will just slim down more. 8. Interest Rates will go thru the roof, in turn buying of hunting land, will trickle to a stop. But in turn their will be a influx of hunting land for sale, becuase of tought times. 9. Radical Groups like the HSUS etc will gain power never seen in our lifetime. So hunting regulations will be coming from ever direction, and no one to stop them. 10. Groups like the NRA, U.S. Sportsmen Alliance, Safari Club, etc even with their money, will be so minimalize, becuase the one's with the power don't care about them. These are just my thoughts. Sorry all negative, but I believe this will be the next 12 years. Firearms Industry Calls National Park Service Ban on Traditional Ammunition Over-reactive NEWTOWN, CONNECTICUT-The National Shooting Sports Foundation strongly encourages the National Park Service to reconsider its policy banning the use of traditional ammunition made with lead components on park lands and points out that neither humans, wildlife populations nor the environment are harmed by the use of such ammunition. "The National Park Service's decision is arbitrary, over-reactive and not based on science," said Steve Sanetti, president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry. "Studies show that traditional ammunition does not pose a health risk to humans, or wildlife populations as a whole." The park service appears to have made its decision without requesting input from wildlife management and conservation groups, or ammunition manufacturers. "There is no evidence of traditional ammunition harming humans or wildlife populations that would warrant this kind of drastic policy change," said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF senior vice president and general counsel. Hunting is allowed in some national parks in order to reduce herd populations or remove wounded or sick animals, and NSSF maintains that traditional ammunition is best suited for these tasks. Traditional ammunition costs less, and hunters are more familiar with its performance. Hunters also are agreeable to taking voluntary measures, such as burying entrails after field dressing game, to prevent scavengers from ingesting lead fragments. Maintaining healthy wildlife populations has always been a priority for hunters, who have contributed approximately $5.6 billion to protect wildlife and habit over the past 70 years through excise taxes paid on firearms and ammunition. The park service's news release does not cite scientific evidence that wildlife populations are being negatively impacted by the use of traditional ammunition, and there is no indication that park visitors' health was affected in any way by hunters and wildlife managers using traditional ammunition. Ammunition containing lead components has been the choice of hunters for well over 100 years, during which time wildlife populations in America have surged. While lead ingestion appears to occur in a small number of individual animals, overall populations are unaffected. Also, there has never been a documented case of lead poisoning among humans who have eaten game taken with traditional ammunition, and a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study on North Dakota hunters who consumed game confirmed that there was no reason for concern over eating game taken with traditional ammunition. Unfortunately, the park service's decision to ban traditional ammunition adds to the misinformation being circulated by anti-hunting groups to promote fear among wildlife managers and hunters about traditional ammunition. The park service's news release makes erroneous comparisons between organic lead found in gasoline and the metallic lead used in ammunition. Banning lead in gasoline and paint was related to public health concerns because of the widespread nature of these substances and ingestion of paint chips by young children. These issues are not associated with lead in ammunition. NSSF and its member companies who possess significant knowledge about lead and its use in ammunition hope to be part of any regulatory process to encourage the park service to reconsider this hastily concluded policy before it goes into effect by the end of 2010.

Thanks again, Still in Missouri I just need to redo my profile to many changes and still occuring.

Thank you all and buckee it's been along time had to re-register - lol Now I am not as old as dirt just rocks. It's been long time since I did photo shoot for Realtree at the 2002 AMO show and it's been a wild ride and wild road. Two weeks have gone by since I have had two interviews. Only the deer gods can tell me the outcome at this time. First interview was with the Missouri Department of Conservation as a Nature Center Manager, last little over hour and had 11 references from Game and Fish Department head across the country. Second interview was with a Wildlife Habitat Products Company went on for two hours. Both interview went extremely well. But it is amazing on how when you are working how you don't have enought time off and when your not their nothing to do. LOL But I will say I have got to do some neat things. Bear Denning with the Arkansas Game and Fish Mule Deer Capture with California Game and Fish Pheasant Hunt in Central Illinois Coyote/Cougar hunt in Arizonia Peacock Bass Fish in Miami Florida Road around with the Wolf and Leopard Biologist for Arizona Turkey Hunt in Alabama Turkey Hunt in Kansas Turkey/Deer/Bear hunt in Arkansas Toured with game and fish Department in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Florida, Texas, Alabama, Kansas, Arizona, California, Missouri, Iowa, Louisana, Massachusetts and Georgia

Thanks so very much for the welcome back

Just remember I got my eye on you guys, make sure you are on the straight and narrow

Lot of changes since I have posted last, have lost my hunting spot and have bought even more land to hunt on last spring. Son is now on his Third Turkey at age 12. Shot his first dove this year after missing them all last year. Out of last three season of deer season he hunted two of them and missed two buck both season. He is due. He is practing to go bow hunting. I join a duck lease for me and him. That crazy Me I have switched jobs 4 times and now settled into what some people call a dream job. It ain't bad. My self I now got to advernture the outdoors in other states. Duck Hunting in Arkansas Bear Denning in Arkansas Pheasant hunt in Central Illinois Coyote hunt in Arizonia Mule Deer Capture in California Turkey hunt in Kansas Turkey hunt in Alabama Peacock Bass fishing in Florida The best thing I got to learn alot about even more states and meet lots of great hunters and fisherman and even learn about some Icons of the outdoor world. I think that is it for you old guys, that remember me and for you new guys I don't know hello.

Just not a regular anymore, travel to much over the country.