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How does one hunt in honey locust tree?

Don't park under honey locust either. Parked early one morning on a public land parking lot without paying much attention to the trees. When we came out I had a flat tire. Thorn had punctured tire.
 
I may be putting a jinx on myself but I have never gotten the rash from poison ivy. I've always heard people say that some people aren't affected by it like others. I have no clue.
But I know one thing, I will be keeping an eye out for Locust trees now.
 
Yazoo Hntr said:
Don't park under honey locust either. Parked early one morning on a public land parking lot without paying much attention to the trees. When we came out I had a flat tire. Thorn had punctured tire.
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I believe that. We have the same risks here with hawthorn. I once "nailed" a boot to the bottom of my foot with a hawthorn thorn. And to add to the topic here...I couldn't even sit down to pull the thorn out because I was in a sea of poison ivy. I had to hop for 20 yards on one foot to get out into a field so I could sit down. I still had trouble getting my boot off my foot with that thorn imbedded through the sole and deep into my foot.
 
We just call them the bean tree. For sure if you smell the ripe seed pods you really need to hunt it. Deer will still eat them if the are some what dried, But if they are ripe and smelling they will hammer them.
 
This may be the stupidest thing ever posted but I wonder if anyone has ever planted Locust tress to pull deer in. Kind of like when people plant fruit trees, etc.
 
stevethebreeze said:
This may be the stupidest thing ever posted but I wonder if anyone has ever planted Locust tress to pull deer in. Kind of like when people plant fruit trees, etc.
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Lol, I actually brought some seed pods home to plant, but never did. They are still in my shop.
 
I have never encountered a honey locust tree. They seem gnarly!

How about this one, anyone game to climb or clear this one? Definitely not me!

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I have learned a few things about deer reading this. Here are two things I know:
  1. Tecnu wash works to get rid of poison ivy
  2. I've seen sparks come off a chain saw cutting down a honey locust (yea yea it could have grown in a wire fence)
 
I think I have found that one tree that a saddle hunter will say...nope...not today.
 
Put a ladder stand on the backside of the tree

Then u can just face the tree while wearing a saddle


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Go in before season and knock the thorns off...if you do it soon they won’t grow back and the area will settle down...in the nw mo honey locust are thick in prime creek bottoms!
 
Prep it! If the lease allows, cut a climbing lane up the tree. I hunt all kinds of nasty trees especially cedars with a million tiny limbs. I cut a lane up the tree just big enough for stepps.
 
Also if I’m not mistaken Andre killed one of his giants in a locust set over looking the deers entrance to the bedding. In the video even he said it sucked but that was the right tree. Sometimes you just gotta do it.
 
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