Food plots

We got all of our food plots in today.  We have planted two in oats and turnips, one in wheat, and one in clover.  Alan and Chance stayed after dark to make sure it gone done today, then we got a little shower, could not have worked out better.  We also had a biologist on the island today and his advice was very encouraging.   Things are really starting to take shape and we are all very excited.

new trail cam pics

Hopefuly I will have some better pictures soon, I have upgraded one of my camera’s.

Just a few deer

We have started to get some deer coming in to the feeders.  Here are a couple of small bucks.

Staff dove hunt

We had a great opening day dove hunt, all the hard work putting in the field was well worth it.  We really had to work hard to get this thing done.  Shelby gets the gold star, without her hard work we would have never found a lot of these birds.  I am eating mine tonite!

This sow and her piglets are regular visitors to a couple of feeders.

Ryan-

Like your blog. I think this is a great way to let folks know about the great hunting at Arbuckle Island. The place is absolutely infested with hogs right now. The river was up for almost six months and the hogs have been in virtual isolation for this entire time. Of course they’ve been doing what Hogs do best, breeding, getting big, and tearing up the fields. They’re not at all used to seeing people right now. I’ve been out on the tractor cleaning the place up for you and I am seeing hogs even in the middle of the day. These hogs hadn’t heard a rifle or seen much traffic in over half a year. I’m sure your season will start off with a bang. If you end up shooting that monster boar with the red spot I was telling you about the other day – call me out there. I wanna see that guy on the ground. He’s by far the biggest hog I’ve ever seen.
Good Luck
-Chance
Arbuckle Farms, LLC
Manager

Trail Cam pics

The hogs are hitting the feed holes and feeders every night.  My cameras don’t have a time stamp on them, because they are the cheapest ones you can get.   Regardless, there are some really large sows hitting one of the bait holes.   We are putting out more feeders, so I expect the trail camera activity to increase.

Stop back by.  There is more to come…

Trapped Hog

We put a trap out, and on the first day, we trapped a hog.  He wasn’t very big.  We thought about making him a bar hog, but he ended up on the smoker!

caught one on our first try