Aldeer.com Forums Alabama Deer Talk Quality Deer Management Non discing folks?

As a former GrowingDeer intern who spent an entire summer at the “proving grounds”, I can tell you first hand that there is a lot more to that whole operation than meets the eye.

In theory, the crimper is a great idea, but in uneven food plots with a lot of variables, it’s not practical or effective. Despite what he showed on video, he was still spraying the vast majority of his plots with Glyphosate both to terminate and to control weeds. His blends were skewed heavily towards soil health and made his plots unusable to turkeys in the spring and much less attractive to deer in the winter. No till is definitely the way to go, just in a much different way. Growing Deer is food plot oriented when it should be habitat oriented. In a world of food plotters, be a habitat manager.

Relative to the amount of acres and capital input he has in that place, he’s not even scratching the potential of what a better wildlife manager/property designer could do with the same resources. Not even close.

What he has going for himself is production quality. He has a really good team working on his YouTube videos and it gives a good impression of what is otherwise mediocre. Don’t get caught up in the production quality and product pushing. People are not always the same in person as what they portray on video and he is perhaps the strongest example I’ve ever witnessed of that fact. Probably what I learned most there was how not to do some things. Essentially every person who has shared in that experience with me or one similar would whole heartedly agree.

I don’t want to sound arrogant or bitter, but this is the harsh reality.