May not be what you have in mind but end of this month I am having a backhoe dropped at the lease to do a bunch of road work. If I don't do it soon season will be here before I know it.
Everything, and by everything I mean everything!! Lol. I moved an entire lease setup to another lease with blinds, feeders, feed and still have a camper to move! Bone Thug here on tbh helped me and we worked for a straight up 11-12 hours! It’s all part of it though. Makes all the sweat equity worth it when you can sit back and just throw the feed to them.
I still have to tweak a feeder setup on one spot and maybe fine tune it. Add some windows and a door to another blind but all that is minuscule compared to getting feeders moved and feeding!
Shred, disk, clean up roads, spray mesquite/huisache and whatever ever else I can come up with. I also cut firewood to make sure I have plenty for the season. Clean fence lines, keep feeders filled, protein, cottenseed and corn.
Summer Foodplots
Stand Maintenance
New Stands
Plant/ Water Trees
Cut new Trails
Maintain Equipment, Trailer, SxS ect...
Spray Mesquites
Feeder Maintenance
Feed Protein
Road Maintenance
shredding, filling feeders, tree trimming, brush clearing, fixing and maintaining roads, fixing and maintaining fences, etc. All things that go along with maintaining and owning a piece of property to keep it nice.
On the other side of things, I go into overdrive with shooting my bow until hunting season starts, shooting all my rifles I hunt with, staying physically fit, trying out new gear, online scouting, hunt planning for the following years hunts. Hunting is almost a full time second job.
Kill pigs
Keep feeders filled
Plant Cow Peas
Kill more pigs
Make repairs to blinds
Kill some more pigs
Maintain roads
Kill some pigs
Try to find cheaper protein
Kill pigs
Keep clearings and road ways mowed
And last but not least, kill some more pigs.
Man, I remember doing some of that stuff. Now, I just shoot deer. Public land is the way to go.
I don’t mind all of the work. It keeps me young and my lease is close by so I normally go 2 times a week during off season. Public is nice I guess but I don’t like having 18000 fellow lease members that I don’t know with loaded weapons chomping at the bits to shoot something.
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