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Re: 120" or better
[Re: Smells]
#2011994
01/31/17 05:43 PM
01/31/17 05:43 PM
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Slidell, La
perchjerker
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Slidell, La
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Good question. yes, mature bucks use plots. They eat in them before the rut, but usually at night. During the rut they may visit them during daylight hours looking for does. While most of the crying over food plots is due to one reason. It's difficult to relocate shooting houses. Many call hunting sitting on a plot.
They never CLIMB(257 big SISSY), or hunt the woods. I have a feeling if turkey hunting was better in a tree, he'd climb. LOL
Seriously quality bucks do use plots, but they are not big because they are dumb. Yes, there is food in the woods, there was food before plots. Even though deer eat in plots they browse in the woods too. Another reason for lower kill numbers is travel, if there are no plots deer travel is lower. Meaning they don't move far form the browse in the woods.
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Re: 120" or better
[Re: Smells]
#2012005
01/31/17 05:47 PM
01/31/17 05:47 PM
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North Jackson
ridgestalker
14 point
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North Jackson
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If a people would leave plots alone til the rut they would kill alot of their bucks there. My Dad is getting up in years and I fix him 3 or so plots a year and he'll get his 3 all mature about every year.
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Re: 120" or better
[Re: Smells]
#2012020
01/31/17 05:53 PM
01/31/17 05:53 PM
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Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 8,397
Chelsea, AL
lefthorn
14 point
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14 point
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Posts: 8,397
Chelsea, AL
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Not quite 120 but I killed this 4.5 yr old at 5:00 in a food plt last year on Jan 23. He measures about 118  He just popped out by himself and was wearing the grass out like it was going out of style
Last edited by lefthorn; 01/31/17 05:57 PM. Reason: Added detail
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Re: 120" or better
[Re: Smells]
#2012039
01/31/17 06:03 PM
01/31/17 06:03 PM
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Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 36,380
alabama
BhamFred
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alabama
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of all the 130" or over five year old bucks I've killed I think maybe three of them came from greenfields. One was standing 10 yards in the woods off a field when I shot him. There were 20 does in the field and it was at the start of the rut. One followed a hot doe into a remote hidden green field I was watching right at last light. One followed a doe into a plot an hour before dark for a bow kill.
I have hunted plots in the afternoon as much as any other type of hunting I have done, mostly hunting does. I have seen very few mature(5+) bucks IN greenfields. I have killed the most in the mornings in the woods.
If I left the house to kill a mature buck tomorrow, or any other day, I wouldn't be sitting on a greenfield. Ods are way better elsewhere in my experience.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
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Re: 120" or better
[Re: Smells]
#2012135
01/31/17 09:37 PM
01/31/17 09:37 PM
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Posts: 29,064
Fosters, Alabama, USA
Shaw
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Fosters, Alabama, USA
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All of my larger/older bucks were taken either in the hardwoods or a cutover. All but one were taken in the morning between sunrise and 8:30am.
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Re: 120" or better
[Re: Smells]
#2012151
02/01/17 12:53 AM
02/01/17 12:53 AM
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Posts: 23,992
Clarksville, TN /Greenville, ...
bill
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Clarksville, TN /Greenville, ...
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I've killed 13 bucks over 120" and the 3 biggest came from plots. Granted they were all during the rut and the plots were both located on edges of swamps and creeks with heavy cover on 3 sides. I don't ever hunt food plots now because I don't have the setup that a mature buck would use in daylight but you can kill them on plots if you have the right ingredients.
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Re: 120" or better
[Re: ridgestalker]
#2012152
02/01/17 01:14 AM
02/01/17 01:14 AM
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Boxes Cove
2Dogs
Freak of Nature
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Boxes Cove
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If a people would leave plots alone til the rut they would kill alot of their bucks there. Ya'll let this ^^^^^ sink in. If you over hunt them early and/or bang does in them, you'll have to get in the woods and hunt around them when it's prime time. My son and I have killed a few mature bucks out of plots, biggest is 147" 4 YO. We don't over hunt them and stay clear of them for a few weeks before rut.
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Re: 120" or better
[Re: Smells]
#2012212
02/01/17 03:15 AM
02/01/17 03:15 AM
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Posts: 6,095
Anniston, AL
ikillbux
ishootatbux
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ishootatbux
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Anniston, AL
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I've never killed one on a plot, but lots of folks do. I've been on leases where it was common, and some where it never happened. It frustrates the HELL out of me (pardon my language), I would actually love to kill a big mounter buck from a food plot one day, but am beginning to think it'll never happen. But I'm not that kind of hunter either...I just don't hunt on food plots (which, like was said above, is what hunting is to many people) I guess it's the odds...if that's how I hunted, then I'd probably kill a buck that way. I probably saw 30 racked bucks with my bow this year, ZERO of them in food plots. Yet I'd read the LFTT threads and it was littered with "sitting on a dirt plot this afternoon", and I was like why in the @#$@#$ would you hunt over a dirt food plot?? Then someone would post a buck kill that came from one of those dirt plots! LOL
I guess it just comes down to style and preference. Many guys I hunt around, that's all they've ever known...they were raised on hunting clubs and never owned a climbing stand. You sat in ladder stands and shooting houses, almost always on greenfields, the whole season. They think I'm the weird one showing up with my climber and walking a mile around the backside of that cutover to those white oaks. I've just always preferred hardwoods in early season, then cutovers the rest of the year. And occasionally I'd sit over (or at least in sight of) the fields (but that was usually because I was actually watching the powerline and there was a plot there) LOL
Last edited by ikillbux; 02/01/17 03:20 AM.
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Re: 120" or better
[Re: Smells]
#2012310
02/01/17 04:35 AM
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outdoorobsession
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Ive shot a few very mature bucks over 120 in food plots, or right behind them (within 10-50 yards).
It all depends on pressure. We only shot mature bucks on this place and it had to be a deer youd mount. We had big plots and most shooting house were 30-100+ yards from the plot.
It was over 2300 acres and managed for years. With quite a few plots, some 3 arces or more. We only had 5-6 members hunting it.
The does and young bucks would just bed all around the plots and feed there any time of day. They were never shot at, so never pressured.
Opening of gun we would usually shoot a good buck or two off the plots.
Then as the rut came in we would shoot them in and around the plot...making scrapes or just walking out and checking for does.
But, you could shoot one any time off a plot in the afternoon generally if that was the day he stepped out in daylight.
Last edited by outdoorobsession; 02/01/17 04:37 AM.
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Re: 120" or better
[Re: ikillbux]
#2012500
02/01/17 06:53 AM
02/01/17 06:53 AM
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Posts: 309
Rising Fawn, Ga
booth2
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Rising Fawn, Ga
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I've never killed one on a plot, but lots of folks do. I've been on leases where it was common, and some where it never happened. It frustrates the HELL out of me (pardon my language), I would actually love to kill a big mounter buck from a food plot one day, but am beginning to think it'll never happen. But I'm not that kind of hunter either...I just don't hunt on food plots (which, like was said above, is what hunting is to many people) I guess it's the odds...if that's how I hunted, then I'd probably kill a buck that way. I probably saw 30 racked bucks with my bow this year, ZERO of them in food plots. Yet I'd read the LFTT threads and it was littered with "sitting on a dirt plot this afternoon", and I was like why in the @#$@#$ would you hunt over a dirt food plot?? Then someone would post a buck kill that came from one of those dirt plots! LOL
I guess it just comes down to style and preference. Many guys I hunt around, that's all they've ever known...they were raised on hunting clubs and never owned a climbing stand. You sat in ladder stands and shooting houses, almost always on greenfields, the whole season. They think I'm the weird one showing up with my climber and walking a mile around the backside of that cutover to those white oaks. I've just always preferred hardwoods in early season, then cutovers the rest of the year. And occasionally I'd sit over (or at least in sight of) the fields (but that was usually because I was actually watching the powerline and there was a plot there) LOL I agree with all of this. I never have either, but have only hunted a plot a hand full of times. Its hard to kill a bugun in a plot with only a few sits.
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Re: 120" or better
[Re: Smells]
#2013065
02/01/17 01:21 PM
02/01/17 01:21 PM
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Posts: 4,329
Northeast Florida
BamaGrad85
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10 point
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Posts: 4,329
Northeast Florida
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I've done both over the years. I've seen way more racked bucks in the woods than on plots. I prefer, when available, to climb a tree just inside the trees next to a cutover with a partial view of a green field. Everyone has their preference.
I came, I saw, so I killed them all......Vern
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