What did you do for the deer today?
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Loaded up some apples and corn and did a quick drop. Also started a new mock scrape. This ended up being a community scrape last year with every deer stopping to at least work the licking branch. I put the camera over it. The clover is slowly taking back over after a few mows. I'll definitely frost seed it again next year to hopefully enhance it.
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Someone is gonna take them tires homo! That’s why I put them behind the garage.
Haha, no mowing, just had to make some temporary room. Dick.It ain’t Friday!
Lotsa really nice pics in this thread. Makes me very jealous. Haven't had any chance to get out in the woods and likely won't for the next two weeks. If I'm lucky I might have two blinds up by opening day.
They like the new branch! I put this up last week. The camera showed them being a little nervous of the branch at first, they have now started using it daily.
OO2
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A couple younger bucks at the entrance of the rub line I mentioned a few days back.
Happens to be a nice oak up there too that they munched at all night long. The pieces are beginning to fall into place...can’t wait for it to go down hill
Happens to be a nice oak up there too that they munched at all night long. The pieces are beginning to fall into place...can’t wait for it to go down hill
OO2
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Did some more scouting tonight. Same place. May give this one a free ride.
Watching THP thinking about some sort of winter crop I can plant in my woods. Something that will grow after the canopy drops and before greenup. Thinking winter wheat might be my only option. I would prefer a type of clover, but can’t think of one that would fit this description.
https://www.qdma.com/ryegrass-going-grain/
"While annual ryegrass may not be for everyone, for those with limited equipment and funding, it might be just the ticket. Also, there are varieties of perennial ryegrass that have more attributes and fewer disadvantages."
https://www.deercreekseed.com/high-sugar-perennial-ryegrass
"While annual ryegrass may not be for everyone, for those with limited equipment and funding, it might be just the ticket. Also, there are varieties of perennial ryegrass that have more attributes and fewer disadvantages."
https://www.deercreekseed.com/high-sugar-perennial-ryegrass
With the way this winter has been, I might head up tomorrow to see if they have it up the road. Throw out 20 lbs onto this wet ground.
Same here. I 100% expect to bust my ass just walking the hill in my yard. Probry land in a 50 lb pile of dog shit, throw my back out and throw up on myself in my dirty socks.
BTW, I had a moment last weekend while cleaning out my storage area. Came across a bunch of old plot seeds. Half of them molded, The other half eaten by mice. So after thinking about it for a little while it hit me.
“You dumb bastard, you have been bitching about no deer at the house for a couple of years. About the time you stopped doing food plots and making sure they had food all year around!”
Seriously, I need to shut up and do something about it. Obviously, what I was doing was working and doing nothing isn’t. No spring fawns or anything hanging around on a normal basis. Time to change that and the first part of this change needs to start with me...
“You dumb bastard, you have been bitching about no deer at the house for a couple of years. About the time you stopped doing food plots and making sure they had food all year around!”
Seriously, I need to shut up and do something about it. Obviously, what I was doing was working and doing nothing isn’t. No spring fawns or anything hanging around on a normal basis. Time to change that and the first part of this change needs to start with me...
I would avoid annual rye grass. Plant rye grain. It grows in cold weather, deer eat it, if you have a nice stand of it, it will grow and become bedding/fawning cover in the spring.
And I always put down some clover with rye. They go hand in hand.
If you don’t have enough sunlight hitting the ground, break out the chain saw.
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And I always put down some clover with rye. They go hand in hand.
If you don’t have enough sunlight hitting the ground, break out the chain saw.
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