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Managing small acreage
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03/01/21 06:59 PM
03/01/21 06:59 PM
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booner
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For those of y’all that have small acreage. What’s your secret? I just grabbed two 300 acre parcels that have a history of having some pretty good deer on them. I’m looking for some suggestions on what y’all are doing on your small pieces to be productive year after year.
One piece is 50/50 planted pine and hardwoods with thick swamps. The other is an overgrown pasture with pockets of thickets throughout and has an 80 acre cedar thicket dead center of the pasture.
My primary plan for these leases is to limit pressure and human activity to a bare minimum. This will be a park and walk from gate scenario and only hunted when everything is right. Since I will be the only one with access, this shouldn’t be an issue. Especially since I have other places to hunt as well. Pretty much opening weekend a couple times and don’t show back up until rut for a few hunts.
Since picking these up, I have resurrected their food plots, placed stands and limed according to soil data. Since the plots are relatively small I won’t be doing any summer planting but I’m entertaining the idea of placing gravity feeders for protein/supplements during the spring and summer. How many would y’all recommend per acre, if any?
Another point that all the folks I talk to keep saying is FEEDERS, FEEDERS, FEEDERS!! Everyone is screaming that every plot should have a working feeder on it year round. Personally I feel this might be counterintuitive to trying to limit my presence on the properties. Those of you that run them on small property. What have you seen as the pros and cons? I have the resources to place as much as one per 50 acres but I’m a little apprehensive to get that extreme with them.
Any suggestions or tips will be appreciated.
Last edited by booner; 03/01/21 07:00 PM.
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Re: Managing small acreage
[Re: Sasquatch Lives]
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03/01/21 07:45 PM
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Remington270
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Put in a couple plots, keep the woods thick, and stay out of there. No feeders. Have your taxidermist on speed dial. Nice
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Re: Managing small acreage
[Re: ronfromramer]
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03/01/21 10:12 PM
03/01/21 10:12 PM
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Mbrock
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Why no summer plots? I would plant as much food as I had room for, keep them on the property as much as you can. Food, water and cover and they have no reason to leave They don’t have to have reasons to leave to do so. Lol. They just will because.
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Re: Managing small acreage
[Re: ronfromramer]
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03/01/21 10:26 PM
03/01/21 10:26 PM
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Why no summer plots? I would plant as much food as I had room for, keep them on the property as much as you can. Food, water and cover and they have no reason to leave Biggest plot I have right now on the pine/hardwood piece is 1/4 acre, maybe a touch more. Not sure what I could put on those to withstand the grazing pressure. On the pasture property. The landowner still lets his cattle free range through that area and they have a tendency to destroy food plots The only thing I can think that may withstand the grazing and be a good soil builder would be a buckwheat/sunn hemp mix
Last edited by booner; 03/01/21 10:55 PM.
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Re: Managing small acreage
[Re: booner]
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03/02/21 10:02 AM
03/02/21 10:02 AM
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Why no summer plots? I would plant as much food as I had room for, keep them on the property as much as you can. Food, water and cover and they have no reason to leave Biggest plot I have right now on the pine/hardwood piece is 1/4 acre, maybe a touch more. Not sure what I could put on those to withstand the grazing pressure. On the pasture property. The landowner still lets his cattle free range through that area and they have a tendency to destroy food plots The only thing I can think that may withstand the grazing and be a good soil builder would be a buckwheat/sunn hemp mix A 1/4 acre plot might provide a little attraction in the fall/winter but can't think of anything that would work spring/summer if you have any deer at all. I have problems with deer wiping out 4 or 5 acre plots in summer and 2 acre plots in the fall
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Re: Managing small acreage
[Re: booner]
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03/02/21 10:07 AM
03/02/21 10:07 AM
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Posts: 21,723 Awbarn, AL
CNC
Dances With Weeds
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Just fertilize and lime them in the summer and let nature grow what it wants to.......Spread cereal grains and clovers in the fall.....white and red
Last edited by CNC; 03/02/21 10:07 AM.
We dont rent pigs
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Re: Managing small acreage
[Re: booner]
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03/02/21 12:11 PM
03/02/21 12:11 PM
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Bustinbeards
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Booner
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I’d be on the edge if not in the swamp when time is right
Originally Posted By: Wiley Coyote Well, the way I see it is there's just too many assholes On a good day there's a bunch of assholes in here. On a bad day there's too many assholes in here.
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Re: Managing small acreage
[Re: booner]
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03/02/21 12:46 PM
03/02/21 12:46 PM
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jacannon
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Provide something better than your neighbors have. Food ,water and cover. Then leave them alone till you can slip in and kill one. Big difference between owning and leasing. We lease 98 acres and we own 55 acres of hills and draws that we select cut 8 years ago, and let it grow up in sage and briars. We keep a few roads mowed and do a few small burns. most of our stands are on the fire breaks around the edges. Only hunted once this season We have a 15 acre tract that crosses a big creek with cane breaks, beaver dams, and cypress trees. Just hunt crossings here. This one not hunted in 2 years. Most of my hunting is on the lease. Different land all together, land is mostly all flat in pine plantation, with 2 one acre plots with spin feeders, and 1 spin feeder along a large hardwood bottom that runs the length of the property. I have another feeder in the edge of a cane break next to a beaver pond. This is the hottest spot on the lease. You can bring deer anywhere you want them with corn. The location and how you hunt will determine whether you can draw mature bucks in the daylight or not. Let all the does and young bucks walk. This might not work for everyone, but it works very well for me.
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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Re: Managing small acreage
[Re: booner]
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03/02/21 07:15 PM
03/02/21 07:15 PM
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Booner - your pressure cenario sounds awesome - I hav a 256 and an 80. 3 fields on the 256 and next year is my 3rd year - there - 2 small and one semi decent size fields - the field with thicker stuff all around it is my best producer - seen a shooter in it my first 2 seasons in muzzleloader and one was a mounter. I hav banks gravity on 2 and 80 pound capacity redneck feeder on another. For me low pressure is key. I hav created a few stands - one is long road stretch w lot of tracks in it - discovered it and it’s on road system. Got one spot in woods by road which is good for slipping in and out
Gone try protein for first time this summer and I always hunt wind
My 80 has one field and I got 2 redneck feeders on it - it was my first year on it - it is bow only - killed decent 9 and solid 6 on it this year
I am only one that has access to both spot and finding second spot was huge this year for reduction in pressure and bow only on small spot helped
My son kill nice shooter and we did not hint much the last several week of season
By early feb I had my best deer - 6 year old showing up daily in field w thick around it - I think because we left it alone so long and I had food there
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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Re: Managing small acreage
[Re: booner]
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03/03/21 12:07 PM
03/03/21 12:07 PM
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Dances With Weeds
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You can give folks general recommendation of what to do but every property is different......You gotta sit back and do a little brainstorming and create a plan just for that property.
We dont rent pigs
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