Cutting Brush

[TN Whitetail Freak]

In need for some brush but have been tied up with chasing whitetails. We've had cooler weather and a frost forcasted in the next week or 10 days. What's my time limit on getting good leaf holding brush cut for the blind?

 

[RUGER]

As long as all you use is oak, preferably red, you will be fine.
The key is to cut it and place it the same day or the next day.
If you cut it and leave it a week before you put it on the blind you will lose alot of leaves.
Day or two and you will be fine.

 

[Hawk]

Ducks have smarted up and flair from totally red oak brushed blinds. :bash:

 

[RUGER]

Ducks have smarted up and flair from totally red oak brushed blinds. :bash:

Ya'll should use corn stalks on your blind.

 

[BlackEagle1]

I brushed the first week of Septembe, but I have to play the water. I sure hope the ducks I hunt don't figure out oak brush!!!

 

[Hawk]

Ducks have smarted up and flair from totally red oak brushed blinds. :bash:

Ya'll should use corn stalks on your blind.

One officer said that using corn would be baiting....another said not...mix of oak, willow, and vines from river bank works best for us.

 

[Chaneylake]

What is Legal?
You can hunt waterfowl on or over or from:
• Standing crops or flooded standing crops, including aquatic plants.
• Standing, flooded, or manipulated natural vegetation.
• Flooded harvested croplands.
• Lands or areas where grains have been scattered solely as the result of a normal agricultural
planting, harvesting, or post-harvest manipulation.
• Lands or areas where top-sown seeds have been scattered solely as the result of a normal
agricultural planting, or a planting for agricultural soil erosion control or post-mining land
reclamation.
• A blind or other place of concealment camouflaged with natural vegetation.
• A blind or other place of concealment camouflaged with vegetation from agricultural crops,
provided your use of such vegetation does not expose, deposit, distribute or scatter grain or
other feed.
• Standing or flooded standing crops where grain is inadvertently scattered solely as the result of
hunters entering or leaving the area, placing decoys, or retrieving downed birds. Hunters are
cautioned that while conducting these activities, any intentional scattering of grain will create a
baited area.

 

[MickThompson]

You should be fine if you removed the ears before using it and took the ears with you out of the field. Moving whole stalks with the ears attached would be redistributing grain and you obviously can't just strip the ears off and chunk them in the field.

That said, I'd let the officer know what you intended to do because of how it would look if they find a blind brushed in corn stalks.

 

[Chaneylake]

we try to cut our brush with the squirrels are making their fall nests.

its natures way of telling us the time of the year when leaves will stay attached longer.

don't really know if any truth to this, it just makes us happier

 

[Pic IN the Casa]

Anybody in northern middle TN that may want to use bamboo let me know. It isn't oak but holds leaves pretty well. We usually brush with oak and then dot in with bamboo throughout the season.