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Sermon preached 7/21/2024 at Dover Baptist Church

A prescribed burn in April of 2023. This burn was a combined burn of four properties totaling a little over 200 hundred acres. The area outlined on the map was our main property burn which was about 45 to 50 acres. That was the starting point of the combined burn. A good tool to have is walkie talkies. We had several and everyone was on the same channel. Carried in front pocket or clipped on your side. Good communications is a must and this worked a lot better than cell phones. Everyone could hear all communication going on during the burn.

A very short video of a coyote getting a mouse or other prey in food plot.

Planted this food plot on August 20, 2022. January of 2023 deer are still using it. Nice to see deer that made it through hunting season. The picture of the buck on the thumbnail was captured about 40 yards inside the woods from the food plot. Didn't get a photo of him in the food plot. Never seen him before. Hopefully this spring there will be a gobbler using this plot as a strutting area.

Not sure how many points this buck had, but he definitely has been doing some heavy duty fighting. Broken main beam and looks like one ear is "broken". Pleasant surprise to see some turkeys coming through the plot Hopefully this spring there will be a gobbler using this as a strutting area. The young man who worked the plot up with his disc and tractor harvested 2 does the weekend before in this plot. It was nice to see a bunch of does stilling using the plot.

Some of the wildlife that uses or passes through the food plot. The buck in the video needs to be culled in my opinion, but here in some Missouri counties we have an antler point restriction. A legal buck has to have at least 4 points on one side. This results in the killing of the genetically superior deer. In a cow herd you sell the inferior cattle and keep the superior cattle for replacement. With antler restriction we do just the opposite. Kill the genetically superior deer and leave the genetically inferior deer. You can see the results in the sighting of more and more smaller and funking rack bucks. Not sure what the red squirrel is feeding on, but if he is not careful the fox or coyote is going to get him. The four does feeding out night ended up running off a couple of minutes later. Something spooked them, but nothing showed up on camera. Multiple rabbits around the plot thanks to brush piles we made.

These videos are from the spring of 2022

Video of some bucks that made it through the 2022 Missouri firearm season. My buddy hunts this plot and seen all three of these bucks on a regular basis, but he passed them up. Archery season is still going and the Alternative (muzzle loading) season will be coming up in late December so this bucks aren't out of the woods yet.

I knew I had a pair of red foxes around the house. I had seen them during the summer and fall. I would like to get some good daytime video of them, but most of my pictures are at night. I was surprised to see three foxes. One limps on his/her back leg.

You can definitely see the injury on this buck shoulder. I think it might have come from fighting another buck. The video at the end is kind of messed up due to batteries in camera were going bad.

More video of wildlife in food plot. I won't hunt this plot, but I enjoy video from the deer that visit the plot.

Some of the wildlife that uses and passes through food plot. You can see the food plot getting thinner and thinner as the video progresses. It is really dry and we need a good soaking rain. Sad to see the one deer with a bad leg.

A look 1 month after planting a fall food plot. Actually the plot looked better a week ago. It is still really dry and things are starting to wilt. I think the clover sprouted and then died due to high temperatures and lack of moisture. A good slow soaking rain would do wonders for this plot. Attached a few wildlife videos at the end.

Normally do fall food plot on labor day weekend, but did this one on August 20th. My neighbor upgraded to a newer tractor and was anxious to try it out. He strapped a barrel on the disk and filled it about half full with water for added weight. Ground was pretty dry and worked up better than we expected. Planted Imperial Whitetail Oats Plus. Hopefully will get some good trail camera pictures and videos off this plot along with harvesting some deer.

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Older camera. Not the best quality picture. Several short videos put together. Pictures from Feb 14 2022 to Feb 24 2022. Evidently several deer came by shortly after I set camera up and caught my scent on the camera. A couple of good bucks made it through season. Always interesting to see what is in the woods.

A few short clips of the does and fawns that stay in the woods behind my house. I see these deer on a regular basis. I don't hunt my property so these deer have a safe place to hang out during deer season.

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Pictures from January 30 2022. Bucks that made it through the Missouri 2021 deer season. Older camera not the best picture. Pieced several short videos together.

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