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Post by southerncanuck on May 29, 2019 10:48:03 GMT -6
Looks like I might be able to buy a 7 acre piece next to my house. If I do that’ll put me at 11 acres. The main thing I’m lacking close by is good bedding so if I get it I’d like to try hinge cutting to thicken it up and offer the deer a safe place to bed on the property. Any of you have much experience with hinge cutting? If so have you noticed a decent increase in deer activity in those areas?
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Post by benkharr on Jun 1, 2019 13:17:02 GMT -6
Looks like I might be able to buy a 7 acre piece next to my house. If I do that’ll put me at 11 acres. The main thing I’m lacking close by is good bedding so if I get it I’d like to try hinge cutting to thicken it up and offer the deer a safe place to bed on the property. Any of you have much experience with hinge cutting? If so have you noticed a decent increase in deer activity in those areas? Matt would be a good person to talk to about that. He does a lot of consulting along with his logging business.
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Post by southerncanuck on Jun 15, 2019 9:10:23 GMT -6
Closing on the land August 1st!
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Post by brushdog on Jun 26, 2019 9:11:48 GMT -6
Congrats buddy! Nothing like walking out you door and heading straight to the stand, bypassing the whole driving part!! I have the same acreage your about to have, just over 11 acres. While the bucks don’t get very big here (100-115”) average, it’s awesome to walk out back and hunt vs my hour drive to any of my Maryland spots. I can say, on a small parcel like mine, I stay completely out of certain areas. Mine is really thick though. Like super thick, most of spots it’s hard to get a clean 20 yd shot. I’ve watched deer get up out of their bed 30-40 yds away I never knew were there. I basically have almost mowed paths to each stand so I can enter completely silent. It’s a lot of fun too.
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Post by southerncanuck on Jun 26, 2019 9:30:19 GMT -6
I’m excited about it. I’ll take some pics as I go to show the progress of things and post them up. There’s a spot off the point of the ridge that was cleared out about 10 years ago that might be 1/2 an acre. I’m going to put a stand overlooking that and make a food plot. It’ll be a good spot for southern wind days or evenings when thermals kick in. I’ll hang another set on the north side of the ridge looking down into the creek bottom. Most of the rest will be made into bedding area where I won’t enter during season and the couple months leading up to. It’ll be fun to have a property that I can actually make changes to instead of hunting leased land where I have no control over things.
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Post by southerncanuck on Jul 2, 2019 10:59:34 GMT -6
I started doing a bit of work on the land I already own. This is a south facing hillside. As you can see when you get down at the deer level it’s pretty open woods so hinging trees really helps add some cover at their level. I’m going to open up the canopy more to help promote growth on the forest floor.
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Post by os2 on Jul 3, 2019 21:03:45 GMT -6
I started doing a bit of work on the land I already own. This is a south facing hillside. As you can see when you get down at the deer level it’s pretty open woods so hinging trees really helps add some cover at their level. I’m going to open up the canopy more to help promote growth on the forest floor. Are you just hinge cutting anything or are you being selective in what species you cut? All Coppice regeneration isn't created equal when it comes to whitetail browse. Also don't kill your future timber/ nut bearing trees.
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Post by southerncanuck on Jul 3, 2019 21:25:06 GMT -6
There’s a lot of sweet gum and hickory mixed in with post oak and a few white oaks. Im leaving all the big oaks and trying to hinge mostly the sweet gum and hickory. There’s a decent amount of cedar mixed in too that I will probably cut and let lay. Once I get the canopy opened up I’d like to burn all that leaf litter on the ground and hopefully the added sunlight will get some new growth going. This is all brand new to me so hopefully I’m not messing things up too bad haha. Any advice is welcomed!
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Post by os2 on Jul 5, 2019 0:37:21 GMT -6
There’s a lot of sweet gum and hickory mixed in with post oak and a few white oaks. Im leaving all the big oaks and trying to hinge mostly the sweet gum and hickory. There’s a decent amount of cedar mixed in too that I will probably cut and let lay. Once I get the canopy opened up I’d like to burn all that leaf litter on the ground and hopefully the added sunlight will get some new growth going. This is all brand new to me so hopefully I’m not messing things up too bad haha. Any advice is welcomed! You won't need to burn unless you have a ton of undesirable saplings growing back to kill them. Cut the hickory totally down to, very little will browse them. Any species of maples will produce the most sought after regeneration browse.
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Post by southerncanuck on Jun 26, 2020 21:39:15 GMT -6
Well I’ve added two more parcels of land to my home place since I started this thread. We did a control burn of about 5 acres back in the late winter. Went behind that and did a bunch of hinge cutting in there and then clear cut a couple additional acres. Put in a clover food plot, a waterhole, hung a few stands and made a few mock scrapes with vertical licking branches. Put a lot of work in over the last year. I’ll share pics and more updates of all the different projects over the next few weeks.
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Post by mibowhunter91 on Jun 27, 2020 10:52:56 GMT -6
That’s awesome in the process of looking for a place to start working on myself I do get to try new things on my dads property where I grew up
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Post by southerncanuck on Jun 29, 2020 20:51:43 GMT -6
Took the opportunity during the rain today to slip back to where I did a bunch of cutting last winter to thicken up the bedding area on the point of the ridge. Put up a vertical licking vine and cleaned out underneath it. Put my link micro cam on the dead oak behind it (you can see it if you look close). Should be getting pics of bucks and does hitting it in the next few days. If you’ve never tried a vertical licking vine, you’re missing out! I hung one last month at another stand location and had video of does licking and rubbing the vine the same afternoon.
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Post by southerncanuck on Jun 30, 2020 8:08:46 GMT -6
I have a pond on the far east edge of my property with a creek that runs the boarder, but no water on the west side where a lot of the deer bed. I put this 110 gallon tank in the ground and filled it up by one of the trails leading to my food plot. Hopefully catch a cruising buck this fall stopping for a drink! Added a mock scrape with vertical vine next to it for added attraction. Already have deer using both.
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Post by APAsuphan on Jun 30, 2020 18:03:15 GMT -6
These are great, man I wish I owned my own place
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Post by brushdog on Jun 30, 2020 19:40:32 GMT -6
Looking good David!! That water hole had to take some time to fill up. I hinge cut here at my place over the winter too. The southern part of my woods was becoming kinda bare at eye level compared to the rest of the woods. Now it’s so damn thick I can’t see through it.
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