Deer Cam Report for Week of 2-6 to 2-12

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Deer feeder and Cam report for last week

I was disappointed to see how few deer (in fact, none) went into the old clearing where I had first placed my tree stand. I had a one series of shots, of which one might have been a tail. I'm thinking that the deer might have not like stepping over the little sink hole fissure which cuts across the trail leading into the clearing.

This week, I built and installed my new deer feeder. It's basically just a 4" pipe with a notch cut it in and placed a couple inches above the ground so a mound builds up underneath it. As the deer eat, a little more spills out. I'll have to keep an eye on it to see how well it meters out the food.

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Here's my work crew getting ready to go down and install the feeder.

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It was pretty cold that day.

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The white stuff on the ground is the mineral lick that we spread around to get the deer to get used to coming into this clearing. I've also placed the trail cam on this site, so we should have some good pics for next week!

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Camera is posted in the salt lick clearing, in front of the tree stand, looking onto the trail coming in from the water puddle.

Saw 1 deer on the Monday the 24th at 12:45am

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Saw one deer on Wednesday the 26th at 12:40 am

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Saw one deer on Thursday the 27th at 5:20 pm

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Saw one deer on Friday the 28th at 6pm

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Saw one deer on Saturday the 29th at 7:42am

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Burning off cedars

Spent the weekend burning off piles of cedars. It seems like a never ending task. However, I'm getting pretty good at it. I can get them started and burned completely to ash in a couple hours.

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Seth and Michael worked hard dragging logs to the fire.

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Clearing Cedars

Our schedules finally worked out to where my friend Kent could bring his tractor out to test how hard it would be to pull down cedars in the moist soil.

I have to report that I'm ruined for doing any clearing manually any more. The tractor worked spectacularlly. We were pulling 20-30ft cedars and large stumps with ease.

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In a matter of 2-3 hours, we were able to clear more than I was able to do in a couple weeks with my chainsaw and burn method. Plus the kicker..none of the hated stumps left behind.

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My job was to be the chain man. I'd pick the trees to pull and wrap 'em up and Kent would yank them.

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Now the big decision will be whether to rent a Cat and just clear everything in a day or two, or use a tractor and do it by chain. I think I'm going to go the Cat route if I can find a good deal.

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Trail cam results for 1/15/11-1/22/11

This week I placed the trail cam facing directly North into the clearing where the salt lick is and where the tree stand looks into. For some reason, it looks like Sunday the 16th was a busy day. There are three separate photo groups from that day and one from Thursday (which is inconclusive)

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For the current week, I've keep the trailcam in the same clearing but moved it to a main trail leading in.

Trail cam results for 1/9/11-1/15/11

The cam was positioned on the trail that branches northeast from the tree stand, looking back towards the perimeter trail. It looks like 3-4 deer passed through around 9am on 1/9

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The next location is the clearing I cut directly north of the treestand. Looking forward to what it shows.