Just curious if anyone has had any experience with food plots for deer hunting. My grandfather just planted 3 acres of red clover for me and I want to know any success/failure stories or what you guys think is the best thing to plant for next years deer season. (what you have had the best luck with)
Deer Hunting Food Plots
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appstatedisco
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sup WCU, I had a good time playing your rugby Squad from WCU at rucktoberfest here in Boone this past weekend. Me and my buddies cleared out some land on his property in monroe(right behind Blackstone) and planted some corn. Unfortunatly they just sold the property and house, so we won't be able to try it out. It's about 40 acres + 10 acres of nearby developement backyards lol. Sorry, I know that probobly doesn't help, but I'll be back in charlotte this weekend if you want to meet up with some other rover junkies if you're in town.
I used to plant a buncha beans to herd the deer
the secret is to plant so you control the movement of the deer.
over planting is not good, it creates to big of a area to cover alone(i'm a bow hunter)
instead pick a secludded area of a large field such as a corner that drops away from the rest of the field in elevation. this will make the spot secure for the deer to move through.
in a perfect world you want to plant a number of small plots so you have options when the wind blows from a different direction or if you booger one area its nice to have a back up area where the deer arent conditioned to look for you.
the last point is only plant away from roads...nothing worse then having people scope out your big buck that took so much work to attract
the secret is to plant so you control the movement of the deer.
over planting is not good, it creates to big of a area to cover alone(i'm a bow hunter)
instead pick a secludded area of a large field such as a corner that drops away from the rest of the field in elevation. this will make the spot secure for the deer to move through.
in a perfect world you want to plant a number of small plots so you have options when the wind blows from a different direction or if you booger one area its nice to have a back up area where the deer arent conditioned to look for you.
the last point is only plant away from roads...nothing worse then having people scope out your big buck that took so much work to attract
I used to play rugby for WCU for a year but things got to hectic with school and work etc. I was planning on being home this weekend but that got changed. My Rover is up in boone at my parents mtn house in Todd. I will probably be in town next week to move my deer stands around and check on my clover plot. Hopefully sometime we can get up and wheel a little.
Muskyman-I planted them on a 3 acre plot next to an old logging road that the deer seem to love to travel through on their way to all our other Corn and Soy Bean fields. I belive they like this logging road because its very grown up with brush and has an old pond on the back of the property close to where they tend to bed down. Im gonna try this spot for a year or two then possibly move to other locations. I have hundreds of acres to hunt on so im gonna have to try different spots over the next few years.
Muskyman-I planted them on a 3 acre plot next to an old logging road that the deer seem to love to travel through on their way to all our other Corn and Soy Bean fields. I belive they like this logging road because its very grown up with brush and has an old pond on the back of the property close to where they tend to bed down. Im gonna try this spot for a year or two then possibly move to other locations. I have hundreds of acres to hunt on so im gonna have to try different spots over the next few years.
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D Chapman
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I use White Clover....The deer love it, but White clover alone is not going to give you them "monster bucks". If you have your own land, I would plant something thats going to benifit and encourage antler groth. I plant my shit on the National Forest (don't tell), so it's hard to do any type of "game management". All I want to do is see deer.
Shelled corn works awesome too...But, it takes me 1.5 hours to walk into my stand now, all up hill. I don't think I could get a 100# sack of corn up there....
Shelled corn works awesome too...But, it takes me 1.5 hours to walk into my stand now, all up hill. I don't think I could get a 100# sack of corn up there....
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Thats awesome....
Thanks for the information. Here in NC we need to get some rain before anything good is going to come from a food plot.
D Chapman said:
I put out about 500lbs of this antler growth mineral on one of pieces of land about 10 years ago.
I watched this little skinny buck grow a monster non-typical rack all summer long.
then I saw him dead from a car collision right in front of our land
I live in northern IL...there are some monster bucks around here...just nowhere to hunt them
where our land is in northern wis everything spike or better dies almost every year, makes for boring hunting
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Thats the way it is here, too. In the National Forest, everything gets killed! If you want the big boys, you have to work for them. That's what I walk in so deep. Even the "big boys" in the NF do not compair to the "big boys" on the farms. But, unless you have 1000 acres, it's hard to do a nice game management.
i have a good friend that owns a farm called "Forest of antlers"
they bought big bucks from all over and managed hard for about a decade
then a wolf got into there land and killed about a dozen 14+ point bucks!!!!
they tried to cooperate with the feds on the issue but those deer sell for 10k each.
kinda sucks when you pay the state for the deer on the land to close the fence then pay to bring in and improve the gene pool only to have a wolf under mind all your good management.
my point is even in a "perfect world" deer management is hit or miss
they bought big bucks from all over and managed hard for about a decade
then a wolf got into there land and killed about a dozen 14+ point bucks!!!!
they tried to cooperate with the feds on the issue but those deer sell for 10k each.
kinda sucks when you pay the state for the deer on the land to close the fence then pay to bring in and improve the gene pool only to have a wolf under mind all your good management.
my point is even in a "perfect world" deer management is hit or miss
I can't imagine why anyone would pay $6500 for a whiteail deer, but clearly they do?! For that much you could fly to South Africa for a week or so, room and board,treated like a king, guide ,skinners and trackers AND shoot a kudu, a waterbuck and an impala. To each his own I guess.
"Hey buddy I hear you spent big coin on a hunting trip, where did you go?" to which you say "WISCONSIN BABY!" ???????
"Hey buddy I hear you spent big coin on a hunting trip, where did you go?" to which you say "WISCONSIN BABY!" ???????
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well i wouldent pay it...but people do pay that and then some
the reall big ones they have are priced at "please inquire" pricing
The area is about as nice as anywhere you'd ever want to visit and I would have to say everybit a sure thing.
that kinda "hunt" apeals to some people. to each there own.
I got bored with deer 20 years ago, I guess if it was a enclosure with giant bears in it I might think differently...you know like about the size of Kodiac Island?
the reall big ones they have are priced at "please inquire" pricing
The area is about as nice as anywhere you'd ever want to visit and I would have to say everybit a sure thing.
that kinda "hunt" apeals to some people. to each there own.
I got bored with deer 20 years ago, I guess if it was a enclosure with giant bears in it I might think differently...you know like about the size of Kodiac Island?
Thanks for all the information everyone. My clover is coming up nice and should be ready for rifle season.
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appstatedisco
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WCU i was over your way last weekend and saw about 8 doe's near the monroe airport. It was still bow season and they looked a bit young, but none the less, it was a large population for that area i believe. My buddy lives near wesley chapel and has them on his land all the time.
Yeah we were on fall break. i went and scouted around and moved a stand from one side of the property to the other. I saw a lot of tracks and scrapes so hopefully it will be a good year.