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    Originally posted by bgleaton View Post
    The guy that was digging the pond actually found a real good bed of clay about 6ft below the current pond so that’s where they stopped and just made it wider. All we need now is some rain to help fill it back up.
    Thanks & Good luck!

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      I was able to get on the scoreboard and shot a doe this past weekend...1 down and 10-12 more to go.

      We planted wheat, silver river clover, and little burr medic this past weekend. I broadcasted the wheat, mowed the fields, broadcasted the clover/medic, and then used the cultipacker over everything. I saw we got around 1/2in of rain last night so hopefully that’s enough to get it going over the next couple of weeks.

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        10/20/2019 Update

        Here are some pictures of the work we did this past weekend. As you can see they were able to dig out our small pond and make it around 15ft deep.
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        Nice 4yr old blackbuck. We are going to let him go another year.
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        Here's a nice 3.5yr old buck:
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        Blackbuck walking to the feeder:
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        Here are two pictures of our South field. I spread 250lbs of wheat and then mowed the field. After I got done mowing the field I spread 2lbs of silver river clover and 2lbs of little burr medic and then cultipacked the field. This field is around 2-acres. This is the first time we've planted without disking so we will so how it works. We got 0.9in of rain the day after planting and then another 0.25in yesterday so hopefully that will give it a good start.
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        We planted our other 3-acre field in 50% wheat and the other 50% in silver river clover and little burr medic.

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          Looking good! I love the updates

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            Food Plot Pic - 11/9/2019

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            Here's a quick picture of the South field that I planted with winter wheat and silver river clover. The wheat is just starting to come up pretty well and the dead thatch has helped protect the seed from birds and from hotter/drier weather. We did not disk the fields this year, just broadcasted, mowed, and cultipacked over top. Hopefully we will continue to get rain.

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              Food Plot Pic - 11/9/2019

              There were a bunch of deer in this field this past weekend.

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                Still looking good, Man.

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                  We are going to try to reduce our blackbuck female population by half over Thanksgiving weekend. The population is growing so fast and they just stand at the feeder and eat all of the corn and protein. Going to try to keep 2-3 bucks and 2-3 females at most.

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                    Originally posted by bgleaton View Post
                    We are going to try to reduce our blackbuck female population by half over Thanksgiving weekend. The population is growing so fast and they just stand at the feeder and eat all of the corn and protein. Going to try to keep 2-3 bucks and 2-3 females at most.
                    Yup, they populate like crazy. It’s nice having something extra to look at, but a pain when they move in and eat everything

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                      Buck Pictures

                      What do you guys think the ages are of these two bucks:
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                      Short brow tines!

                      We need to reduce our numbers this year by shooting 6 bucks and 9 more doe. We were thinking of removing these two bucks but wanted to get yalls opinion on their ages. Thanks!

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                        Other Cull Bucks

                        Here are the other bucks we are after this year to help reduce our deer numbers:
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                        We have history with all three of these bucks for the past 3 years.

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                          Any guesses on age for the two bucks I posted above?

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                            6/4 Both good candidates to be taken IMO

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                              Originally posted by bgleaton View Post
                              Any guesses on age for the two bucks I posted above?
                              I think 5+ and 4. If I was in your situation I wouldn’t lose any sleep shooting those two

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                                Thanks guys! We also believe those two first two bucks need to go. We have 6 bucks to shoot this year so we are trying to take the worst bucks, 3yrs +, along with 10 doe to help bring our numbers down.

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