Best Food Plot to Plant?
I am in Northwest Indiana and wandering what might be the best food plot to help ensure the deer get proper nutrition for maximum antler growth as well as keeping them on the land throughout hunting season, any suggestions?
To me it looks like you don't need a food plot. Seems like you already have great nutrition by the size of those two deer pics. By any chance did you have them scored?
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Yes I did, my first was 148 1/8 and the second was around 135. Not bad for my first 2 deer, I got the first one somewhere else, was the biggest deer there that anyone saw. There were alot of poeple after that buck, I took that 12 pointer this year, there arent many other big ones there, we saw one that a guy got across the street. 3 others were taken that were just small racks, this deer I got is the biggest ever in 35 years taken at the place I hunt. I have some new land that me and a guy want to plant some plots on to help hold the deer and help them grow becuase they are smaller.
Re: Best Food Plot to Plant?keeping them on the land throughout hunting season
If they have cover they will stay during the hunting season so long as they don't get chased. Even during the daylight hours they will come back to your land so long as they don't feel threatened there.
To accomplish this do not still hunt them or walk around a lot. Go straight to your stand and straight back out. Limit as best you can other hunters who can't or don't like to sit still. I like to use those little radios and have someone else drop me off and pick me up. That way if you are hunting anything even remotely agricultural when your ride comes in the evening and you are still surrounded by uneducated deer you don't have to give them a free lesson just because it got dark. Call them on the radio and have them drive as close as possible or other wise force the deer to move. That way they associate with the same thing as farming type operations and are not aware they are being hunted there. They will come right back after the "danger" leaves. You need even the does you are not shooting for buck bait.
Pay attention to where they were this year and so long as the circumstance doesn't change those will be the places they feel safe next year.
"Hell of a way to start the New Year, saluting a dead possum," said Steve Barringer, a blacksmith.
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I didn't see many this year when gun season came in.... I dunno where they went! But they werent on the 200 acres of land we had to hunt, we had done several deer drives at the end of muzzleloader and shotgun and saw 1 doe, thats it, and we had 3 people in 3 different stands all over the 200 acres...
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What kind of food is available to the deer now? Do you have corn, bean, wheat fields? Acorns and other soft mass? What kind of property do you hunt on? Need some info here!!
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Welcome to the board ordinarymom, I hunt on private land about 200 acres or so, 75 woods, 125 fields, next year beans will be available, we have pear trees, and apples, im looking more of a food that will grow in the winter when all other foods are gone?
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Just some basic plots would be brassicas, winter wheat or peas, supplemental feeding, chicory, ladino clover to just name the more popular ones. The best would probably be a generous supply of brassicas followed by a supplement of high protein and carb pellets.
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Look through your magazines, there are alot of ads for food plots, We tried 2 different kinds this year, Imperial whitetail(3rd year using) and Northern forage (1st year)
They both seemed to work equally, except that the northern forage seemed to keep growing all the way through december. The blends we use are the one that have many different plants in them that will grow through out the year, no sense in planting something just for winter food. the more variety a deer can choose from the better, keep him & her on your place all year.
p.s.
put the food plots in the center of your property as possible, Potential tresspassers and poachers will notice large concentrations of deer and will be very tempted, so if you can hide them then hide them
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