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Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/22/15 11:11 PM
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don k
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Looked at some Live Oak and Spanish Oak this afternoon. Never seen so many acorns growing on Oaks. Should cut your corn bill way down.
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
[Re: don k]
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05/23/15 02:59 PM
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1860.colt
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most of my corn hunts are canned... If can afford it, i reach for the cobb...
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/23/15 09:51 PM
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We don't have acorns in south or west Texas thank god
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/23/15 09:56 PM
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Wilhunt
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We had a bumper crop last year don't think it could be much heavier. Deer sure didn't come to the feeders.
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
[Re: don k]
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05/25/15 01:37 AM
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Old Rabbit
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I am with you wilhunt, even the hogs didn't come to the feeders.
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
[Re: don k]
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05/25/15 01:59 AM
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At the place up near Brady we got a late freeze last year (April 11, I think). The trees all looked like they had burned. They got leaves finally and looked good, but almost no acorns. This year right as the trees were getting their new growth we got a hail storm that ripped them up pretty good. I hope it didn't hurt the acorns, we'll see.
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/25/15 09:04 PM
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Never seen so many acorns growing on Oaks. Should cut your corn bill way down. Depends on your perspective. Lots of acorns also means heavily dispersed animal traffic. Corn concentrates the traffic to a much smaller area when other resources are lacking. So the savings in $ on corn will mean potentially less opportunities for those with limited amounts of time to hunt.
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/25/15 09:22 PM
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rifleman
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Whatever will make the hogs leave.
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/25/15 11:39 PM
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Never seen so many acorns growing on Oaks. Should cut your corn bill way down. Depends on your perspective. Lots of acorns also means heavily dispersed animal traffic. Corn concentrates the traffic to a much smaller area when other resources are lacking. So the savings in $ on corn will mean potentially less opportunities for those with limited amounts of time to hunt. This. If you're using corn as a food supplement you're way off base anyway. It's just an attractant. But it is going to be a great year for healthy animals.
I learned long ago you can't reason someone out of something they don't reason themselves into.
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/26/15 02:35 AM
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I've never had my deer stop eating Corn or Protein, they will slow with good Acorn and Bean crop.
Going to be a great year... Anthrax will be rough
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/26/15 03:10 PM
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Never seen so many acorns growing on Oaks. Should cut your corn bill way down. Depends on your perspective. Lots of acorns also means heavily dispersed animal traffic. Corn concentrates the traffic to a much smaller area when other resources are lacking. So the savings in $ on corn will mean potentially less opportunities for those with limited amounts of time to hunt. This. If you're using corn as a food supplement you're way off base anyway. It's just an attractant. But it is going to be a great year for healthy animals. If what little i learned in english class, between day dreaming about wondering about the woods, WMA booklet calls it baiting in the prohibited acts not an expert... i put supplements out for a healthier animal & focused more on the other wild game ta boost deer numbers up... Took awhile, payed off, it went to a 4deer county...
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/26/15 03:56 PM
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At least corn prices should be coming down
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/26/15 09:45 PM
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So glad my grand-pappy and pappy planted Live Oaks around the Feeders (many years ago). Works for all occasions!
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/27/15 04:01 PM
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I've never had my deer stop eating Corn or Protein, they will slow with good Acorn and Bean crop.
Going to be a great year... Anthrax will be rough Anthrax will be bad if the biting flies bloom at the same time the spores do. That's the "perfect" storm. And I've had the same experience with corn.
Crotchety old bastidge
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/27/15 04:13 PM
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I've never had my deer stop eating Corn or Protein, they will slow with good Acorn and Bean crop.
Going to be a great year... Anthrax will be rough Anthrax will be bad if the biting flies bloom at the same time the spores do. That's the "perfect" storm. And I've had the same experience with corn. I have heard the same thing...we never get Mosquito's at our place but the Knats are off the charts this year..and a Thermacell won't phase them..trust me
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/27/15 05:44 PM
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I've never had my deer stop eating Corn or Protein, they will slow with good Acorn and Bean crop.
Going to be a great year... Anthrax will be rough Anthrax will be bad if the biting flies bloom at the same time the spores do. That's the "perfect" storm. And I've had the same experience with corn. I have heard the same thing...we never get Mosquito's at our place but the Knats are off the charts this year..and a Thermacell won't phase them..trust me Take the knats over mosquito's any day.... Yagh, been known ta ta shotgun on early squirrel&hog season hunts down at WMA.. Takes me some #8's & choot me way threw dem thar bloodsuckers... it stays wet & if ya stop mosquito's almost carry a person away... recon corn will get back ta $3.00 a 40# bag ? That be nice...
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/27/15 06:40 PM
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Mosquitos are why they invented #12 shot, right?
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/27/15 07:07 PM
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.. recon corn will get back ta $3.00 a 40# bag ? That be nice... Corn will probably go to $20 a bag this year (drowned crops) RICE, & MUSHROOMS will be free! (growing wild everywhere!)
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/27/15 08:59 PM
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How much wetter than normal, does it need to be before you can expect problems, assuming a normal summer drying out with heat? I checked the accumulated percipitation map, from 1 Oct, which shows most of Val Verde county in th two bands, from -2 to + 4 inches, parts of Uvalde, Real, and Edwards are in the +8 to 12 inch band.
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/27/15 11:13 PM
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.. recon corn will get back ta $3.00 a 40# bag ? That be nice... Corn will probably go to $20 a bag this year (drowned crops) RICE, & MUSHROOMS will be free! (growing wild everywhere!) Eaten rice right now... magority of my hunting is WMA no baiting.. Even whin it went 4 deer county, did foodplot, feeders, suplements here at house & did archery & the hog hunts on WMA... Could have filled deer tags many times... Choose archery over rifle, for deer hunts.. Now worried bout this anthrex...
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Re: Corn hunters should be real happy.
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05/28/15 02:40 PM
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Never seen so many acorns growing on Oaks. Should cut your corn bill way down. Depends on your perspective. Lots of acorns also means heavily dispersed animal traffic. Corn concentrates the traffic to a much smaller area when other resources are lacking. So the savings in $ on corn will mean potentially less opportunities for those with limited amounts of time to hunt. ^^^^ This ^^^^^
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