Seeding, Trail Cams, Hunting dogs, Next Gen Hunters

Sorry this has taken me so long to post. As I've thought about this past weekend I've been thinking how much Floyd has been involved in Sanchijebanobe. Also this past weekend we had four generations of partners and families associated with this growing partnership. Who would have imagined when we started 22 years ago what we would have today. Can you imagine what this will look like in another 20 years?




It was about 22 years ago when Floyd said there was 80 acres for sale south of Israelsons and as a group of 10 we decided to buy it and start Sanchijebanobe. In this picture we were at the End of the Line Cafe having lunch after seeding at the camp.



Here are Floyd and Sue standing on the new cabin site.



Here are Floyd and Sue checking to see where we could seed. They are at the north east corner of the pasture moving west. You can see the dozing on the south end of the 120 acres behind them.



Seeding included an ATV with Dick's pull behind seeder and Floyd's ATV where he's pulling a harrow section. This worked really well. We seeded rye along with a deer mixture of perennial clover, and other annual seeds. Seeding this time of year gets the plants started this year.


Here Chris is loading some deer type seeds. From left to right are Kyla, Sue, Chris, Floyd, and Jeff. The cabin site was seeded with both rye and deer candy. This day we seeded the cabin site, the east side of the 80, the area around Matt's stand and two worked up areas east of Matt's stand, and finally a plot worked up towards the north end of the 120 acres north of the trail into the state land. In this picture we have four generations represented.

We unloaded pictures from five trail cams. We got a lot of nice pictures including some video clips. When I tried to attach a a video clip of a family of Sand Hill Cranes, I couldn't do it.

Here' s Jeff with his new Browning Citori. He is anxious to start hunting pheasants (as are all of us). There's also a discussion of a fall trap league in Blaine.

Here's Paige learning how to shoot. Matt bought a B-B gun and both Paige and Kyla had a fun time learning from their dad.

Matt & Jeff with Jeff's shotgun.

Here's Kyla holding the BB gun in a safe position.

Matt and his hunting crew.

This is Matt's hunting dog, Cody. While we were out here a ruffled grouse walked out and Cody came to a beautiful point. I think Matt is pretty excited about hunting with three dogs this year; Jeff has Ole, Matt has Cody, and Chris has Jack.

Ole has been trained for hunting. Here Jeff is demonstrating how Ole retrieves.

Here are Ole and Cody each listening to their masters.

Here's the start of a campfire. The dogs are playing and you can see the old cabin in the background.

Here's Paige making sure the fire is ok. This was the end of a very busy Saturday. Sunday morning was for putting fresh batteries in the trail cams and relocating them if necessary.