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Re: Big or small
[Re: blumsden]
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03/27/15 08:04 AM
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Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 6,612 Lake View, AL
Joe4majors
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Posts: 6,612
Lake View, AL
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You can do 2 things. Cut back the timber on the edge of your plots and let it grow up naturally, to create a soft edge, and plant some Egyptian wheat as a screen, until the native vegetation gets going good. The EW, can get 10-14' tall. Deer don't really browse EW. Sweet, thanks.
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Re: Big or small
[Re: johndeere5036]
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03/27/15 08:22 AM
03/27/15 08:22 AM
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Posts: 14,578 Tuscaloosa Co.
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Booner
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Posts: 14,578
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I haven't noticed any of that on the places I hunt. I think location of the plot has more to do with it than anything. I'll see more deer in our plots that are next to wide azz open fields, than in the ones that have the "edges". It will be interesting to see if it makes a difference for you on your place. They may just like the smaller field better or may be closer to a bedding area. Be sure and keep us posted next year.
83% of all statistics are made up.
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Re: Big or small
[Re: johndeere5036]
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04/08/15 02:18 AM
04/08/15 02:18 AM
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Joined: May 2000
Posts: 4,969 Nashville, TN
BSK
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I've got two fields about 2acres a piece beautiful food plots and most of the time you can sit and see a few deer but its going to be pitch black dark and on my small patches that's about 80 to 100 yards long 20ft wide you can go and sit and see deer just about all the time. Just curious if any of yall have problems like this Deer, and especially bucks, feel safer in small plots during daylight. When small plots with adjacent cover exist, I see the most daylight buck activity in those plots versus large plots. I believe the close proximity of good cover--just a few bounds away--is the driving force in this discrepancy of usage.
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Re: Big or small
[Re: johndeere5036]
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04/08/15 07:13 AM
04/08/15 07:13 AM
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Posts: 2,773 Florida
jacannon
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I have always felt that the location and good thick edge around a plot is what brings deer and of coarse sweet grass keeps them coming back. Then you leave it alone as much as you can.
Grandma said...Always keep a gun close at hand, you just never know when you might run across some varmint that needs killing...
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