Menard 2020-2021 Season

[DK1555]

Not many birds to shoot at this weekend but we at least finished up everything for bow and gun season.


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[Els16]

Very few dove this past weekend. Shot a nice large boar and saw some good bucks on the camera.

[Gary Roberson]

Yesterday we were blessed with a great "follow up" rain, about .9" at the house. It was pretty scattered, I think more rain in central, south and SW part of the county according to my radar watching.
Grass is really slow responding to this moisture which tells me how dry that it was when the rain finally fell last week. Normally, a couple of days after a rain we can see the grass really green and growing...not this time.
I am beginning to see a few acorns falling around the house. Some trees have a few and many have none. I don't think they are going to be heavy as the last couple of years.
Reports of ranchers finding quite a few dead fawns. Body condition on the fawns is not good as there's simply not much for them to eat and Mamas are drying up. Hopefully this rain will get some green stuff growing that the fawns can reach.
Adios,
Gary

[Rustled Again]

I'm over in Hext and the follow up rain went around us. Happy with what we had last week. I got my wheat in just before the rain and it is all ready up. Acorns are falling. Not to last years level but a few. Matt

[Heath]

Farm Logs has been reporting we are getting hit with rain pretty often out there. Based on my mobile camera, they are backing up that data. I did put a camera on a water well a few days before all this rain started. I sure I would have known all I had to do was to add a camera on a water source and it would start raining, I would have done a long time ago!

I am going out this weekend to do a final tune up for bow season. Looking forward to getting out there.

[Abu_dude]

Has anyone been feeding rice bran on your place? We put out 100lbs on my buddies place near Kerrville and they go through it in a few days. I put out 100lbs at the lease and the deer won’t even sniff it...


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[Els16]

No rice bran here....but keeping protein on timed feeders to try and keep bucks from roaming too much. We are feeding Alfalfa and it’s almost eaten over night.

[SBurk]

No rice bran here....but keeping protein on timed feeders to try and keep bucks from roaming too much. We are feeding Alfalfa and it’s almost eaten over night.

What timed protein feeders are you using?

[Gary Roberson]

Started raining lightly about 4:00 AM this morning and have had about .4" so far. As wet as the ground was, looks like much more has fallen than has. Ground is really wet.
Adios,
Gary

[Heath]

I was out there this weekend and really amazed at all the new growth the recent rains have produced. We are on a property that has cattle and in my opinion are over grazing it, so great to see the new grasses coming up.

All the bow setups are ready to go.

[Abu_dude]

So i ran up on a day trip to change out some batteries in the camera and get a few things done before the opener. I had to dump 100lbs of molded rice bran out of my troughs because it wasn't touched. Is anybody running anything as a self feed attractant? Outside of have deer blocks available, I would like to keep something out for around the clock available feeding...

[Capp35]

Outside of have deer blocks available, I would like to keep something out for around the clock available feeding...

Sorry... Deer blocks.
My whitetails tear them up. Axis, not so much.

[Gary Roberson]

Sorry... Deer blocks.
My whitetails tear them up. Axis, not so much.

The axis will really eat on the berry flavored blocks at Compton's. Other blocks not so much.
Adios,
Gary

[RRagan83]

The axis will really eat on the berry flavored blocks at Compton's. Other blocks not so much.
Adios,
Gary

This axis love them record rack wild berry blocks.

[HunterU]

So i ran up on a day trip to change out some batteries in the camera and get a few things done before the opener. I had to dump 100lbs of molded rice bran out of my troughs because it wasn't touched. Is anybody running anything as a self feed attractant? Outside of have deer blocks available, I would like to keep something out for around the clock available feeding...

That's crazy. I run rice bran threw my protein feeder and they go thru it with 3 weeks.

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