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When Your Hunting Land Goes South
Sooner or later good things must come to an end. That's what I've always heard old timers say. I used to think that good things only came to an end if you let them. For some reason you didn't work hard enough or some star just collided or some bull l...Take Yout Wife Hunting
If you’re like most men that hunt you have a wife at home. Some women could care less if you spend four months out of the year in a deer stand, a few months in a duck blind, time chasing gobblers, and the rest of the year chasing other game, but most...Same Dang Squirrel....Mike Goes Nuts
Article by Matt:
I had to tell Mike that I was going to let him pull the trigger on my Stevens 30-06 in order to get him to go hunting with me on November the 20th, 2010. He had called me the night before all excited abut going. Really I was just ...
5 Ways to Bag a Buck
Each new year you read about how someone has come up with the best ways to bag a buck. Well here at Land and Hunting we want to share our best strategies with you. If you follow these guidelines we aren’t going to guarantee you a buck, but you will s...Even a Blind Squirrel Finds a Nut!
Last year gang I wrote an article about the one who got away, I did video footage showing the damage he caused on unsuspecting saplings. Well even a blind squirrel can find a nut every now and then. I start the season behind my house for bow huntin...Big Shot......For a Little Man
It was a crisp fall morning for the 23rd of October, 2010. This would be 9 year old; Brandon Newlin’s first deer hunt with his Dad. Lucky for all of us in the hunt club the state decided to add Moore County to the Eastern Zone so rifle came in on t...
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Eggs for the Family
It's 4:30 am and I hear old Foghorn putting on a show for the neighbors. With each cockadoodledo I hear my plott hound Buck try to talk back and tell him to shut up for at least another hour. That just makes my wife get up and tell Buck to shut the.....well, you can figure out the rest.
There is nothing like raising your own eggs. Laying hens not only provide a much needed food source for the family, but they also provide entertainment for the kids...and myself. Not only are they easy to care for, but they are also economical for the farm. The cost of feed is offset by the money that you are not paying for eggs in the store. You can even s...
The 3 Little Pig House
Being a small landowner I enjoy gardening each spring. Small time farming on less than 15 acres of land can be a challenge, but it is rewarding. In an age where everyone is wanting to "go green" we are doing just that with our garden fertilizer. You may wonder how we are doing that? The answer is in the pork.
Natural fertilizer is always the best answer when it comes to preparing the soil for planting. Nothing goes better with a mess of greens than a ham hock in the pot! For that reason we decided to build a simple straw house on our garden spot. After putting up some temporary fencing we had the perfect little spot for our three little pi...
The No Space Easy Garden
Have you wished that you had a little space to grow your own garden vegetables? Well, maybe we have stumbled across a couple of unique ideas that we can pass along.
The first idea we actually had came my father in law, and that was growing tomato plants out of a plastic pot upside down if all you have is a porch or balcony to hang them from. You can go by any feed and seed store and buy the kit to do the same thing if you don’t want to invest the time into making your own basket. I think the easiest ones I’ve seen are the hanging wire baskets and they were lined with the brown moss thatch that can be purchased at Lowes Hardware. The...
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