East Texas land purchase

[Sam Colt]

My well in caldwell county is estimated to need to be 640’ for “good” water and 25k to put it in.

On schedule for drilling but driller is back logged 4-6 months.

Make sure they leave freebore and extra wire to lower your pump if the water column drops. We’ve had to lower one of ours 80’ so far and it would have been easier without the splicing.

 

[Texas45]

Make sure they leave freebore and extra wire to lower your pump if the water column drops. We’ve had to lower one of ours 80’ so far and it would have been easier without the splicing.

Thnxs Ill inquire about that for sure.


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[andre3k]

I had a chance to get there on Saturday to maintain some trails, fill feeders and spray the wasp nests that setup shop in the stands. Instead of straight corn I decided to fill one with a roasted corn / soybean mix and every animal in the woods seems to be eating it. So far I've seen coons, rabbits, crows, squirrels and the deer feeding on it. I've only seen one hog so far and it didn't come to the feeder. Three does are consistently hitting this feeder every day but they all are a bit on the thin side. Is it normal for them to be this skinny in the summer?

 

[EZ-E]

I had a chance to get there on Saturday to maintain some trails, fill feeders and spray the wasp nests that setup shop in the stands. Instead of straight corn I decided to fill one with a roasted corn / soybean mix and every animal in the woods seems to be eating it. So far I've seen coons, rabbits, crows, squirrels and the deer feeding on it. I've only seen one hog so far and it didn't come to the feeder. Three does are consistently hitting this feeder every day but they all are a bit on the thin side. Is it normal for them to be this skinny in the summer?

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They just had babies & summer is starting to kick in. It's a rough time for them. Also 80% of does have twins. Depending on how much natural forage & water you have they could be a little skinny.

I've got a food plot, 2 feeders 100 yards away from each other, have protein feeder & a water trough catching rain water. They've been killing protein since they've had babies. It went from 50lbs every 10 days or so, to 50lbs every 3 days.

 

[andre3k]

They just had babies & summer is starting to kick in. It's a rough time for them. Also 80% of does have twins. Depending on how much natural forage & water you have they could be a little skinny.

I've got a food plot, 2 feeders 100 yards away from each other, have protein feeder & a water trough catching rain water. They've been killing protein since they've had babies. It went from 50lbs every 10 days or so, to 50lbs every 3 days.

Makes sense. They pretty much hang around there all morning and evening. The soybeans add a little protein but I guess I should look at adding a protein feeder as well. What do you recommend growing for the food plot?

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[EZ-E]

Makes sense. They pretty much hang around there all morning and evening. The soybeans add a little protein but I guess I should look at adding a protein feeder as well. What do you recommend growing for the food plot?

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For perennial... red clover & rye grass. You can mix them together in the same area. When the seeds drop it will renew it's self every year. Annuals peas or soybeans but you got to plant them every year & disc the soil. I'd have the 2 separate in 2 different sections, so your only having to disc one area & not tearing up the perennials. Annuals & perennials could be next to each other.... just not mixed together. If you don't have a water source close by I'd recommend getting a plastic 55gal drum & cut it in half to make 2 troughs to collect rain water.

4 does & a 4 point were up close to the house just a few minutes ago eating natural forage. They're looking pretty healthy. They were about 40 yards from the back porch.

 

[baboon]

Ask and one whole has planted a garden what deer eat first out of it & there is you food plot!

 

[Darkpriest667]

For perennial... red clover & rye grass. You can mix them together in the same area. When the seeds drop it will renew it's self every year. Annuals peas or soybeans but you got to plant them every year & disc the soil. I'd have the 2 separate in 2 different sections, so your only having to disc one area & not tearing up the perennials. Annuals & perennials could be next to each other.... just not mixed together. If you don't have a water source close by I'd recommend getting a plastic 55gal drum & cut it in half to make 2 troughs to collect rain water.

4 does & a 4 point were up close to the house just a few minutes ago eating natural forage. They're looking pretty healthy. They were about 40 yards from the back porch.

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I need to drive out your way and check out your layout. You've been doing what I want to eventually do. So learning your lessons now will save me time, money, and cussing.

 

[EZ-E]

I need to drive out your way and check out your layout. You've been doing what I want to eventually do. So learning your lessons now will save me time, money, and cussing.

My place ain't huge, only 14 acres.... 400' wide x 1450' deep. I had to mulch about 6 acres because it was all underbrush with scattered tress. You ain't walking through easily. I'm just fortunate that the area around me is heavily wooded also. My county rd is mostly ranches around me & my side of the county rd had 11, 7 acres tracts in between the ranches that got split up. So I got neighbors, a few hundred feet away on either side. I can hear the neighbors talking some evenings.

 

[Haystack]

For perennial... red clover & rye grass. You can mix them together in the same area. When the seeds drop it will renew it's self every year. Annuals peas or soybeans but you got to plant them every year & disc the soil. I'd have the 2 separate in 2 different sections, so your only having to disc one area & not tearing up the perennials. Annuals & perennials could be next to each other.... just not mixed together. If you don't have a water source close by I'd recommend getting a plastic 55gal drum & cut it in half to make 2 troughs to collect rain water.

4 does & a 4 point were up close to the house just a few minutes ago eating natural forage. They're looking pretty healthy. They were about 40 yards from the back porch.

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I will add this without disagreeing with anything EZ-E said. I plant about two acres of fall/winter food plot every year. These are rotated with two other plots so I can let them seed out. Even after plowing, some of the last years seed out will come up. I plant oats, wheat, clover, and winter rye. I get the custom mix from East Texas Seed in Tyler (down in the freight yards).

On the summer plots, deer love peas more than anything else. But they will nip off the first two leaves as soon as they appear and kill the peas. The only way I have found to get them to grow is to plant more than they can eat. How much depends on how many deer. You will have to experiment. May take a few years to find out. I also buy the spring custom mix from East Texas Seed. Two kinds of peas, soybeans, and a little okra.

Disk the ground thoroughly, doesn't have to be deep. I use a breaking plow first, makes it easier to disk. Then drag it to help cover the seed. I use a landscape rake. Otherwise the crows will eat half of your seed before they sprout.

 

[andre3k]

Finally got the truck in from El Paso. Turned out to be in much better shape than anticipated, TXDOT left the maintenance log in the console and looks like they handled the brunt of the 6.0 powerstroke issues. I still plan on bulletproofing the motor but so far its running good.

Picked up my dad and drove to the property to check the feeders, move the game cam to a new spot and drop off a 60" Swisher pull behind mower I got to keep the trails maintained.

I found a place in La that will deliver 16 tons of railroad ballast for $950. I have no idea if thats a good price or not but its seemed reasonable to me. The road to camp right now consists about 400 yards of ruts. Does anyone know of an aggregate supplier in the Jasper area?

Took the range finder out and scouted some potential shooting areas to setup a 200 yard range for sighting in rifles.

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[Eli]

You have your work cut out for you!

Eli

 

[Jack Ryan]

Why set up 200 yard shooting lanes just to shoot domesticated animals over a feed trough?

 

[Haystack]

Why set up 200 yard shooting lanes just to shoot domesticated animals over a feed trough?

If you think deer are domesticated, I invite you to go ahead and try to put a halter on one.

 

[andre3k]

Why set up 200 yard shooting lanes just to shoot domesticated animals over a feed trough?

Aren't you a dose of fresh air. Welcome to my thread.

I presume you take issue with baiting game animals (or domesticated ones).

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[Haystack]

Aren't you a dose of fresh air. Welcome to my thread.

I presume you take issue with baiting game animals (or domesticated ones).

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Maybe he just takes issue with feeding them. I feed protein and corn year round. But, one could make the argument that the free food makes my deer welfare recipients.

 

[andre3k]

Maybe he just takes issue with feeding them. I feed protein and corn year round. But, one could make the argument that the free food makes my deer welfare recipients.

Thats what I meant by baiting. It's pretty hard to turn down a free meal.

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[Axxe55]

Some people just like feeding the deer to see them come around and never even hunt them.

We have been doing it for some years now. We also set up game cameras just to get pictures of what is coming in to feed on the corn out of the feeders at night.

 

[Haystack]

Some people just like feeding the deer to see them come around and never even hunt them.

We have been doing it for some years now. We also set up game cameras just to get pictures of what is coming in to feed on the corn out of the feeders at night.

Precisely! I have one feeder near the house for just this very reason. Although I do like venison. We prepare it many different ways.

 

[mongoose]

Finally got the truck in from El Paso. Turned out to be in much better shape than anticipated, TXDOT left the maintenance log in the console and looks like they handled the brunt of the 6.0 powerstroke issues. I still plan on bulletproofing the motor but so far its running good.

Picked up my dad and drove to the property to check the feeders, move the game cam to a new spot and drop off a 60" Swisher pull behind mower I got to keep the trails maintained.

I found a place in La that will deliver 16 tons of railroad ballast for $950. I have no idea if thats a good price or not but its seemed reasonable to me. The road to camp right now consists about 400 yards of ruts. Does anyone know of an aggregate supplier in the Jasper area?

Took the range finder out and scouted some potential shooting areas to setup a 200 yard range for sighting in rifles.

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Precisely! I have one feeder near the house for just this very reason. Although I do like venison. We prepare it many different ways.

If you like deer, do some research and quit feeding the corn.