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What's your 'Crystal Ball' telling you?

Jackalope

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Do you have any patches of wild cherry trees? They are starting to drop now and deer love those things. I have in years with no apples used them to help check inventory. They really like them were they drop onto a logging road or cleared ground area where they can lick them up easily. They will even eat them off the road surface on a back road.

Do you mean the standard shaggy dark brown bark wild cherry trees with the red wood inside? There are tons of them everywhere around here.
 

bowhunter1023

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So here is a crazy thing to consider: Deer are ruminants. So are cows. Wilted cherry leaves will kill a cow deader than a doornail due to the high levels of cyanide in the leaves. True story.
 

5Cent

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Interesting thread! I am a betting man but my opportunity to access good woods is shrinking more and more every year. I just look forward to getting in the stand and watching the woods come alive each morning and tuck in each evening.

I learned as a young man that if you want to hear God laugh, go ahead and tell him your plans lol.

Best of luck to each of ya degenerates this season!
 
So here is a crazy thing to consider: Deer are ruminants. So are cows. Wilted cherry leaves will kill a cow deader than a doornail due to the high levels of cyanide in the leaves. True story.
Yep. Wonder if the wilted leaves would kill deer also? Never heard of it but maybe it would. One thing about deer is they don't tend to feed and gorge themselves on one thing like a cow will. Maybe that would help?

I do know that deer like the cherries though when they are falling. It would seem to me that they would have to eat a bunch of them to get much of a meal, but they seem to like it. Now when the white acorns start to fall then they don't hit the cherries as much.
 

giles

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Someone say something...
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Buckmaster

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I envision success for my son as I sit with him and coach/watch.

I have zero expectation for myself this year following an EHD year in 2017. I expect to deer watch.
 

Dannmann801

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I expect to spend at least a couple of weekends seeing nothing in camp with buckmaster...I see myself in my stand in Adams county during the rut.... hope to see the same buck I missed last year (worst case of Buck Fever I ever had)...he's still around, got him on camera. My crystal ball sees a warm gun season.