That would be AFM who manages the property & GMO has the timber. Have dealt with AFM for over 20 years & they are the cream of the crop imo. Now, AMP is a whole nother issue.
Pines being clear-cut
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That's awesome. I wish I had one of those disks. Food plots > sticker bushes!
Maybe, have not considered that as most of our clear-cuts will be 1-300 acres
The last three thinnings have been 5th-rowed with the remaining four rows being thinned as well. Certainly let's a ton of sunlight in & new growth to flourish. It's great for 1-3 years, after that the blame cat tails become 6-8' high & too thick to see in. We've started mowing the 5th rows for shooting lanes. What cat tails are doing on ridge top pine plantations, I have no idea...
JCDEERMAN
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Ok - I was just wondering because Champion has land next to us and I've been wondering when they are going to cut their pines. Should be any time now.
Yes that is the manager and owner
Harold Money jr
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Volboy,
Also you need to start lining up someone with good beagles and someone with bird dogs. Rabbits are guaranteed and quail are likely the next few years.
Also you need to start lining up someone with good beagles and someone with bird dogs. Rabbits are guaranteed and quail are likely the next few years.
AlabamaSwamper
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That company owns a bunch of the old champion and IP land
In Tennessee and Alabama.
Pretty good to deal with overall from what I've seen.
In Tennessee and Alabama.
Pretty good to deal with overall from what I've seen.
The guy over our lease deals with them and all seems to have been good the time that I have been involved.
Red-Team-98
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Take the soft wood leave the hard wood !
Mattt
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Ca
Cat tails or fox tail?
Good question, probably fox tail
It's gmo. It used to be champion and international before this.
BSK
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Yup, two most common thinnings are 3rd-row and 5th-row thinnings.
GOODWIN
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Year 1 &2 of new growth they can be a magnet. After that it's thick cover and hunt the edges
BSK
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Just remember that if they cut in the summer, consider that following hunting season as "Year 0." Don't expect any regrowth. Now if the cut in the winter, different story. For some reason, winter cuts produce astounding regrowth the first summer. Even more than the 1st summer the year after a summer cut.
I would do some leg work and find a few pines in good stand locations and ask the loggers to please leave those few trees. Maybe mark them with flagging tape.
Canyonfish
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Grew up hunting timber companies land in south central Alabama, and when clear cutting pines occurred, usually several hundred acres, it was time to find a new spot. Hunting would become bleak, and when new growth started it was so thick and full of briars it was miserable. Not until they thinned and/or did a controlled burn was it huntable again. This was before Treestand's became widely available. They never had much appeal anyway as a mono landscape versus diversified landscape.
When I was in Cancun last week I found out our lease is being cut. Its 900 acres, mixture of pines, hardwoods, and Ag. Not sure yet what they are cutting or how much. Not really looking forward to dealing with it. If I had somewhere else to go I'd bail out but probably going to have to stick with it.
