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Joined: Oct 2020
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3 point
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Looking for ideas to attract more deer to our lease. We only have 120 acres at the moment but looking to expand.
We are putting in a few food plots, going to make some hinge cuts in some areas for browse and cover, and putting in a few mineral sites.
Some people keep telling me to plant milo, I don't know anything about that stuff. Our plots are going to get maybe 60-65% sun during summer months (guessing). Do yall have any recommendations. I've always read and heard to plant clover, buckwheat, brassicas, and cowpeas....
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Dances With Weeds
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Is this someone's personal property that you have free reign to do what you want or timber lease land??
Last edited by CNC; 02/20/23 04:44 PM.
Folks that know don't shoot old does........ 
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Is this someone's personal property that you have free reign to do what you want or timber lease land?? Timber lease land. So I can't go cutting down everything and clearing plots. I have been giving permission to put in some plots and cut some small trees
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Two places where I’ve found that deer love having some horizontal cover from fallen trees to bed around……along the edge of a creek and up on the side of the ridge above the creek. If I were gonna drop trees those would be the two places I would concentrate on.
Folks that know don't shoot old does........
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They Call Me Gator 🐊
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Old Mossy Horns
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Life is a journey. Make sure and bring plenty of Beer.
My luck has been so bad lately, it could be raining pussies and I'd catch one with a dick broke off in it.
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12 point
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Less pressure. Limit days of hunting give the deer 6-8 days straight with no hunting. Hunt A day lay off again. No motorized vehicles.
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12 point
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Fertilize any honeysuckle on the property.
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Old Mossy Horns
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Mineral sites - i just set some out last weekend - prob little early
But feeding also to attract in fall - i would not feed corn thru summer
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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Build you some feed troughs and feed year round. When I bought my property it was a ghost town not many deer there. I started feeding heavily and won’t hardly ever stop. It’s expensive but now after three years of feeding and having good food plots my property is covered up with deer. I’ll hear my neighbors complain about not seeing any deer. I feel like I am pulling a lot of deer for a long ways that are hanging more around my property instead of theirs. Bucks does whatever they know they can eat on my property and not get messed with.
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Freak of Nature
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The main thing on 120 acres which you lease and can't do a lot of habitat improvement is pressure.
"Why do you ask"?
Too many people spend money they don't have , on things they don't need, to impress people they don't know.
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The pressure (trespassers) is being taken care of. Half of our property has no pressure compared to the other half. From the responses, it sounds like we are on the right track. Planning on doing a little of everything mentioned. Thanks guys!
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Mineral sites - i just set some out last weekend - prob little early
But feeding also to attract in fall - i would not feed corn thru summer What do you recommend for mineral sites. I bought some deer cane black magic that was on clearance for $3 at Walmart a couple weeks ago. Is that stuff any count?
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Booner
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Mineral sites - i just set some out last weekend - prob little early
But feeding also to attract in fall - i would not feed corn thru summer What do you recommend for mineral sites. I bought some deer cane black magic that was on clearance for $3 at Walmart a couple weeks ago. Is that stuff any count? Trophy Rock
"The Heavens declare the glory of God;and the firmament sheweth his handiwork" Pslam 19:1
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Booner
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Get you some beavers. I heard deer love big areas of flooded timber.
Last edited by marshmud991; 02/20/23 09:25 PM.
It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chews your a$$ all day long.
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Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert
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Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert
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And if that don't work, I would try more corn.
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Get you some beavers. I heard deer love big areas of flooded timber. Ha ha I thought the same
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Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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I get mineral from thomasville feed amd seed - blend auburn put together
Forget what all in it - dical-phosphate
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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Its likely a habitat issue. As others have said, corn them to pieces. Outside of that, not much.
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Its likely a habitat issue. As others have said, corn them to pieces. Outside of that, not much.
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