Deer Sanctuarys
10-22-2007, 08:37 AM
#22
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Albany, NY
Posts: 4,679
RE: Deer Sanctuarys
ORIGINAL: Germ
I am going to try
Chickory next year and turnips, I have seen deer do exactly what you stated. Kind of browse their way through the plot.
I guess my post came out wrong. Plots don't work like you see on TV where the deer browse in them for 30 mins. I think a lot of people have a mis-conception of how plots work. Sometimes you plant them, and nobody shows up
What I did not do is plant them close to bedding areas, I am going to try that next year.
I am going to try
Chickory next year and turnips, I have seen deer do exactly what you stated. Kind of browse their way through the plot.
I guess my post came out wrong. Plots don't work like you see on TV where the deer browse in them for 30 mins. I think a lot of people have a mis-conception of how plots work. Sometimes you plant them, and nobody shows up
What I did not do is plant them close to bedding areas, I am going to try that next year.
10-22-2007, 10:27 AM
#24
Typical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Northwoods of WI
Posts: 990
RE: Deer Sanctuarys
ORIGINAL: Germ
I guess my post came out wrong. Plots don't work like you see on TV where the deer browse in them for 30 mins. I think a lot of people have a mis-conception of how plots work. Sometimes you plant them, and nobody shows upWhat I did not do is plant them close to bedding areas, I am going to try that next year.
I guess my post came out wrong. Plots don't work like you see on TV where the deer browse in them for 30 mins. I think a lot of people have a mis-conception of how plots work. Sometimes you plant them, and nobody shows up
What I did not do is plant them close to bedding areas, I am going to try that next year.
Germ I had a plot the last two years and it work wonderfully. For one reason or another they have spent little to no time in it. I blame the amount of corn that is now around my property however my deer sighting are now down by any means. Plots have worked good for my in the past just not this year.
10-22-2007, 11:00 AM
#25
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Texas and Arkansas
Posts: 1,496
RE: Deer Sanctuarys
ORIGINAL: Germ
I am going to try
Chickory next year and turnips, I have seen deer do exactly what you stated. Kind of browse their way through the plot.
I guess my post came out wrong. Plots don't work like you see on TV where the deer browse in them for 30 mins. I think a lot of people have a mis-conception of how plots work. Sometimes you plant them, and nobody shows upWhat I did not do is plant them close to bedding areas, I am going to try that next year.
I am going to try
Chickory next year and turnips, I have seen deer do exactly what you stated. Kind of browse their way through the plot.
I guess my post came out wrong. Plots don't work like you see on TV where the deer browse in them for 30 mins. I think a lot of people have a mis-conception of how plots work. Sometimes you plant them, and nobody shows up
What I did not do is plant them close to bedding areas, I am going to try that next year.
Wethrew some chicory onthe plot last week for the spring...from what I have read, it won't come up in the fall. We won't hunt this plot again for a month.
10-22-2007, 11:16 AM
#26
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Iowa (Heartland USA)
Posts: 3,249
RE: Deer Sanctuarys
Germ, a buddy of mine has 120 acres with 40 of it in crops every year. All the way around his property is nothing but cropland. He put in a food plot with 7 differrent types of clover which all blooms at differnent times of the year growing season. Deer love clover because it's sweet. I've sat in his cabin and watched the deer come out of the soybeans and corn at night to munch on the clover. It's like offering candy to a child, they can't pass it up. Now I have one food plot in with the same mix and two more plots tilled to be planted in the spring. My buddy got his clover mix from www.whitetailinstitute.com. I went to the local feed store and he made basically the same mix for me at 1/4 the price. Give it a shot and I doubt you'll be disappointed.
10-22-2007, 12:33 PM
#27
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Northern Idaho's Panhandle
Posts: 4,436
RE: Deer Sanctuarys
On that piece of ground I hunt that is private..the one I had all the tresspassing problems with, I have 50-60 acre mountainside full of brush and thick timber that I absolutey do not enter unless I am shed hunting it in Jan-March..
It works great because all the land around is either public or pressured private ground.. Deer and elk hole up in there big time.
I can't plant anything on this land, but if I could I would till up all skid trails in this sanctuary and plant a summer protein and fall carbohydrate combo
It works great because all the land around is either public or pressured private ground.. Deer and elk hole up in there big time.
I can't plant anything on this land, but if I could I would till up all skid trails in this sanctuary and plant a summer protein and fall carbohydrate combo
10-22-2007, 02:12 PM
#29
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 6,634
RE: Deer Sanctuarys
Yeah Jeff I have been trying to find a spot likes yours just over the border in Illinois.
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
I don't give 'em a square foot of sanctuary. I push the limit and hunt every nook and cranny of the land I have access to.
Ahhhh, but the untold truth is....I hunt a man-made breakline that's the border of their 230 acre sanctuary. Parks system.....no hunting. Perfect scenario. If it didn't exost the way it did.....I'd probably screw it up by hunting in there. As it is.....it keeps ME in check.
I don't give 'em a square foot of sanctuary. I push the limit and hunt every nook and cranny of the land I have access to.
Ahhhh, but the untold truth is....I hunt a man-made breakline that's the border of their 230 acre sanctuary. Parks system.....no hunting. Perfect scenario. If it didn't exost the way it did.....I'd probably screw it up by hunting in there. As it is.....it keeps ME in check.
10-22-2007, 02:14 PM
#30
Bartender
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 6,634
RE: Deer Sanctuarys
Can you dig it up I am would be greatly interested?
ORIGINAL: GregH
I do this in the places I hunt. I wrote a post Titled "Sanctuary's" a couple years ago but of course, got minimal replies.
BTW, it works excellently.
I do this in the places I hunt. I wrote a post Titled "Sanctuary's" a couple years ago but of course, got minimal replies.
BTW, it works excellently.