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So much for food plots...

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Iluv2hunt
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I should have known the odds were against me.
I stopped into 7 different places between Tampa and Tallahassee trying to find food plot seed mixes. No one, and I mean no one had anything. weird, because I have NEVER in ten years of planting food plots had a hard time finding seed in any of the places I stopped.

In a last ditch effort I went to a Ace hardware that carries a lot of stuff for hunting. We bought seed there last fall. This is 20 miles past my lease.
Nothing..... I ended up buying an extra bag of soybeans. Figured I would go ahead and plant at least them.
Got to camp about 3PM Friday and mowed the grass around camp that was three feet tall, then sat in the truck while a thunderstorm passed by.
About 4:30 I threw the disc on the back of the trailer and rolled down to where I go into one of my stands.
Well I loaded the 5 bags of lime and 2 bags of fertilizer on the ATV, and hooked up the disc.
By this time Im already sweating balls.
I pull off the main road going down the trail to my stand, and Im greeted by a wall of standing water....
Crap
Put er in 4L and down I went. Got thru the water and up to my first tree stand. From there it is a 15 yard wide ATV trail 200 yards long to my next stand that I wanted to plant...
Looks dry. Good deal. Unloaded 7 bags of lime/fert, flipped disc over, re hooked up and off I go. I get 30 yards around the first curve and MUD..
Damn...

I tried to hit it, but the disc sunk down and buried itself and I buried the ATV
Damn..
Unhooked the disc
Atv is buried
Damn
Waded back thru water to my truck and got come-a-long
Waded back thru water to ATV and winched it out
hooked come-a-long to disc and winched it out
Hooked back up on dry ground, and started plowing again. I went along fine till I got past my second stand and it got wet again, and once again I buried both ATV and disc.
Same thing, unhook, winch out, turn everything around, rehook...

I get to where I originally got stuck and buried them again.
This mud up here is what I call gumbo mud. That ole gray lookin stuff that you bog up in and can't move nothin that is tuck in it.
I tild myself that when I get this equipment unstuck this time I am done and headin to the truck.
I winched everything out for the third time. I was covered head to toe in mud like atar baby, and my head and chest pounding like I was having a heart attack

I said to hell wit a food plot.
After that I still ended up hanging and filling three feeders

I fired up my generator and cranked my a/c on as cold as it would go at 8Pm and did not move till 7Am Saturday morning

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john l
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I guess it's been raining more up there then here! At least you quit before you stroked out 😆

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Cr0ck1 (Beagler)
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i got wet yesterday.. but im allways gonna hunt in the rain.. the hogs move in broad daylight when its raining!

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Iluv2hunt
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I guess it's been raining more up there then here! At least you quit before you stroked out 😆

Yeah it is from that bad storm that stalled out over the area back in March

Plus there was 4" in the rain gauge since I was there 2 weeks ago

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Cr0ck1 (Beagler)
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hey the two spots i go to to get feed have food plot seeds.. its a bag with a picture of a deer on it right?

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