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Thick cover to deal with. #6305655
08/19/18 04:29 PM
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Went and checked and redid game cam today added another one to the cat country area, tried to beat the rain (I lost) but not bad, the cover is as thick as I have ever seen it. The prairie grass was 5-6 foot tall in the open areas I had to set up in a shaded area for 1 camera and put the other right off of a road. I sticked out the taller grass between the camera and the road to keep it from triggering the cam and put bark over the lane between the camera and the road.

Looks to be a ton of cover this year that might be good for snaring but might hamper foot traps some. Acorns all over great crop for the deer and turkeys.

Greasy road looks like it's 30 yards in the pic closer to 100 yards.


Pic from the top great cat funnel area with a dam crossing had to get to the edge to get away from the tall grass to take the pic. 2nd cam is where the road turns to the right after crossing the dam.


Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

Jerry Herbst
Re: Thick cover to deal with. [Re: Law Dog] #6305660
08/19/18 04:40 PM
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Goats man!

Goats!

Re: Thick cover to deal with. [Re: Law Dog] #6305661
08/19/18 04:42 PM
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Nevermind


You want it.

Forget the goats

Re: Thick cover to deal with. [Re: Law Dog] #6305678
08/19/18 05:14 PM
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Looks beautiful

Re: Thick cover to deal with. [Re: Law Dog] #6305774
08/19/18 07:15 PM
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Looks good. Grass in places here in above the knees and some to the waist. I will make it tough for trapping early on I'm afraid.


Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime
Re: Thick cover to deal with. [Re: Law Dog] #6305780
08/19/18 07:22 PM
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Nice country.


"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
Re: Thick cover to deal with. [Re: Law Dog] #6305788
08/19/18 07:30 PM
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You got some pretty country there Lawdog. We we're blessed with some rain today. We need it.

Re: Thick cover to deal with. [Re: Law Dog] #6305889
08/19/18 09:21 PM
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Rain has been like it's on a timer once a week rather then no rain for 5 months!

Been going through the cam card 2295 pics lots of the summer grass blowing in front of the cam back and forth. Deer, turkey coons, yote so far but not cats yet.


Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

Jerry Herbst
Re: Thick cover to deal with. [Re: Law Dog] #6306600
08/20/18 09:27 PM
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Law Dog,
I just got home yesterday from S.D. Was there for a week doing the tourist thing with the wife, along with watching my buddy coyote hunting with his decoy dog for a couple days. What a state. Never seen so many round bales in my life.
Showed me some places he traps and a few looked just like your second picture. Don't see how anything can live in that god forsaken looking country. Everything looked like a tinder box ready to explode. Only green was in the gullies,ravines, and along the streams where I was at. When we set up to call I had to watch were I sat. If not you'd be skewered by all the cactus. Yet I'm already to go back. Great state.

Russ


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Re: Thick cover to deal with. [Re: Law Dog] #6306650
08/20/18 10:38 PM
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Nice.
Great acorns around here this year too.

Re: Thick cover to deal with. [Re: Law Dog] #6306709
08/20/18 11:36 PM
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When I first moved here from the UP I thought the same thing about anything living in such a flat grassy place then the sun started to go down and I understood what it was all about never seen so much stuff in my life! LOL


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Re: Thick cover to deal with. [Re: Law Dog] #6306724
08/20/18 11:54 PM
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Snowy if grass is knee high it's almost tall enough for good snaring

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Re: Thick cover to deal with. [Re: Law Dog] #6306780
08/21/18 04:00 AM
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Lol,i thought the same thing when I lived in s.d. but its an amazing habitat for critters!!!

Re: Thick cover to deal with. [Re: Law Dog] #6306998
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I've been hung up for two weeks waiting on dry weather to cut hay, weeds and crabgrass are doing great. I have alfalfa here at the house with cowpeas planted in it and the deer have really slowed down on coming in to it, before things greened up they were in it late morning and early evening and of course at night.

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Re: Thick cover to deal with. [Re: west river rogue] #6307433
08/21/18 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted By: west river rogue
Lol,i thought the same thing when I lived in s.d. but its an amazing habitat for critters!!!


That is true will have to find the trails. I worry some about deer though. They like to stick their noses down to smell so I'm very careful when it comes to that.


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Re: Thick cover to deal with. [Re: Law Dog] #6307588
08/21/18 10:30 PM
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Quote:
Acorns all over great crop for the deer and turkeys.

For a couple of years I trapped mountain sides above the Air Force Academy in Colorado. They were covered with scrub oak, and held a lot of coon and red & grey fox. Droppings proved they were eating acorns.

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