Blazing a trail through the cattails
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Blazing a trail through the cattails
I am new to the hunting beast and cant get enough of this site! Ive been doing alot of readiing on here and learning alot, and now its time to start asking some questions. In the marsh bucks video Dan talks about blazing a trail through the cattails. Well ive been doing some scouting and have found a few beds that i think im gonna have to make my own trail to get back to. My question is when is the best time to do this? If I make a trail now, will it grow back up in the spring/ summer months? Or would i be better off waiting until spring to do it?
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Re: Blazing a trail through the cattails
I would think your trail would stick around as long as animals start to use it to keep it matted down. Therefore it would probably need to nearly parallel an existing game trail
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Re: Blazing a trail through the cattails
The best time to make a trail in cattails with a machete is July... If you made the trail now, you would not be cutting the new growth cattails.
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Re: Blazing a trail through the cattails
July is a wonderful time to be in the marsh too
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Re: Blazing a trail through the cattails
Jackson Marsh wrote:July is a wonderful time to be in the marsh too
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Re: Blazing a trail through the cattails
Thanks for the input. Yeah Im sure Ill be a sweaty mess after that trip out there
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Timmy wrote:Thanks for the input. Yeah Im sure Ill be a sweaty mess after that trip out there
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never mind the skeets, fear the horseflies.
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I have left Green Bay in July. Drove 4 hours to the hill country I hunt. Hung and trimmed a couple stands in 90 degree heat, mosquitoes and multi floral rose, and drove back to Green Bay a sweaty mess. More than once too! It can be done in July!! Yes we are the minority!!
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Re: Blazing a trail through the cattails
Public Land Beast wrote:I have left Green Bay in July. Drove 4 hours to the hill country I hunt. Hung and trimmed a couple stands in 90 degree heat, mosquitoes and multi floral rose, and drove back to Green Bay a sweaty mess. More than once too! It can be done in July!! Yes we are the minority!!
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Dewey wrote:Public Land Beast wrote:I have left Green Bay in July. Drove 4 hours to the hill country I hunt. Hung and trimmed a couple stands in 90 degree heat, mosquitoes and multi floral rose, and drove back to Green Bay a sweaty mess. More than once too! It can be done in July!! Yes we are the minority!!
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Re: Blazing a trail through the cattails
Here is a trail I cut in July about 15 years ago.... Still in use.
I have a certain tree I go in at, and the trail starts about 10 yards into the cattails... Deer and critters have kind of connected the trail to the edge though.
I have a certain tree I go in at, and the trail starts about 10 yards into the cattails... Deer and critters have kind of connected the trail to the edge though.
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