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Moved around one of my deer blinds today. Have it facing a nice little clearing. Would be a prime spot for a food plot of some kind. But it's the end of sept. I'm in Ohio and still have a few weeks before out first frost. And could be a month or better before a hard freeze. I know some of you are further north than me. Any ideas on some kind of wild life plot I could plant?
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We used to throw a wheat/rye/oat/winter pea mix. Down here there is usually plenty of acorns to feed the deer but it seems like any more with all the bow hunting and black powder pressure, by the time modern firearms opens, the deer have all gone strictly nocturnal, so rabbits end up eating most of that. Not planting this year. I know guys who spend enough cash every year just to deer hunt, that they could buy two or three packaged cows. I don't have a bow or primitive fire arm, and I don't think I will be shelling out the kind of cash they want for them either. My Dad is a retired game warden(management area supervisor), but I think I would risk blasting one after hours before I would. What happened to the good old days when deer hunting meant stuffing a few shells in your jeans pocket and walking to a good crossing (which you scouted on foot the old fashioned way i.e. no game camera) and setting on the ground, leaned back against a tree, and piling up a deer for MEAT? Don't get me wrong I love hunting, but it seems that trophy hunters have (like bassmasters did for fishing) have ruined hunting, and taken focus off what hunting is all about: meat yummy delicious healthful meat.DESTRUCTION is just a couple of vowels down the street from DISTRACTION -
Originally posted by brushcutter View Post
Believe me. I understand how you feel. I don't like to kill small deer. But it makes no matter to me if it has bone sticking out of its head or not. I just like the big bodied deer. I also believe that if I am going to take I should give back. So I like to plant something or thro some corn out for when winter really sets in and things get rough. I ended up plant a mix similar to what you described. ThanksComment
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Hey, big body = more meat. In our area if you don't own land and want to hunt, you are either going to be on a lease, or hunt public land. What I'm talking about is these leases that have an "8 pt or better" rule. Case in point: I dug petrified wood and opal in an area near here, for about 3 years before it all went to lease. In that time I was in those woods nearly every weekend for at least 2 days, sometimes 3 (we worked 4 10s). Also in that time I saw 9 deer, 7 of which were seen from the highway. After the land leased I joined one which I had discovered had all my digging territory. The price:$500 per year, and you guessed it they had the 8pt or better thing going. I laughed in the guys ear when he said that while going over the club regs on the phone. "What ya laughing about?" he wants to know, so I related the above statistics to him, and told him, "feller, I ain't really joining the club to hunt deer, I have way better land for that at home, but I will be carrying when I'm digging during season, and at the price you're getting for the dues, I have all intentions to shoot whatever I get the chance to". And I did... ya want to know how many deer I killed out there in the 2 years I was a member? NONE, just a couple of hogs, and some spring gobblers, those eat good too! I still laugh when I think of him wanting to make a pine thicket into some big trophy reserve! Deer don't eat much pine straw and if they do it's because they are starving. lolDESTRUCTION is just a couple of vowels down the street from DISTRACTIONComment
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