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What did you do for the deer today?

OhioWhiteTails

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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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Tipmoose

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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.
 

giles

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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.
 
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giles

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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...
 

Reagan

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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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