Recent content by UplandJim

Not settled had to get my ratoon rice crop in and settled, the food plot stuff is secondary to that…. Picked up check today for the sold rice so the arithmetic begins…. I’ll post when I get something done on the food plots.

Agreed! I see multiple factors for a basis Simple- cost of prep, seed, planting, fertilizer, herbicide etc Complex- the brown top millet, panicum and sunflower were all in early bloom stage and the stress on the foliage rushed what was maturing into small seed heads with 1:2 size seeds… worse...

I had a flying service drift paraquat over 120 acres of rice, 25 acres of sesame and 20 acres of food plots… I could use some input on valuation of the food plots, the rest is pretty straight forward stuff. Any thoughts?

Texas has little federally owned land…only that which the state gave them so non event here. I have availed myself of other western states federally owned lands and it would be tragic to see some of it privatized. On the other hand, there are millions of acres of marginal land ( not good for...

Hogs do it to our corn….You can throw dry corn out and they will walk past it to root up the planted stuff as it germinates. Lactating sows the worst. I reckon the big draw is the enzymatic conversion of starches to sugars pre pop that draws them. So to keep them from rooting up 300 yards of...

Nice bird by the way goose…our Rios rarely tip the scales over 20

My turkey dog manages to put birds up with some regularity probably 50:50 since I started taking him about a decade ago… he loves it and I wouldn’t consider going without him. I like how he gets after em after the shot and pins em down since I don’t always get one in the noggin especially on the...

I’m a sunglasses addict I need to find a program….. I use amber lens green mirror most days, Costa my old go to but default to Maui Jim these days… the amber green mirror also doubles on the water ( inshore) real well. Polarized a must ….I buy glass lenses rather than polycarbonate….polys won’t...

1st pic. Round up ready corn in 12 row strips…..I just can’t stand to spray it in a “food” plot…. Lots of early food underneath but I guess I’ll whack it once it seeds up… 2nd and 3 rd same plot ….was going to rip it up and plant sesame but walking it today I think I’ll just take what nature...

Work in progress…

Propane cannon ….. used to be common on Tx gulf coast for waterfowl pounding rice…. We don’t have the problem as much these days DU and weather have stopped the migration.

The rule of thumb is 10 hp per foot of disk so a testament to to the 4010 at 85 hp to get it done with a15’ offset ….that soil looks pretty mellow though. I do pull one 22’ sunflower disk with 150hp 6155R and it seldom works over 80% if I don’t bury it …..so so much for rules….. I no tilled corn...

Hope that my post didn’t read” hunt the roost” really bad idea ….. FIND roost(s) so you don’t have to wait 4 hours for one to walk to you….that tank in the photo where Gus ( the dog and I are sitting is a solid mile and a half from a roost at my 12:00 for example…. There is another roost about 4...

My turkey spots dried up (literally) in the rolling plains TX but we’ve had some hatches last couple of years just waiting on some jakes to grow up…. You know it’s time to give em a break when you have em all named ? Tactics…. Find roost, locate strutting yards between roosts put out a hen decoy...

Single barrel full choke and 5 shot, double gun throw a modified in for the rare closer birds. I’ve used tower shoots to work my retrievers….lots of good work to be had…