Originally Posted by 3toe
I’ve actually wondered if food plots are even necessary. I guess if you have kids that hunt and need a good shooting house to sit in they are. At our club most of the bucks we take are from hunting in the woods, not over food plots. I rarely hunt food plots, I like to get in deep and hunt the woods. Our club has a ton of deer on it and I’m pretty sure they don’t depend on the crappy food plots we planted to sustain their dietary needs. But, it seems it’s been so ingrained in our minds that we need big beautiful food plots that we spend mass amounts of money to plant them.

For years I wasn’t in a club and hunted some family property. Wasn’t a food plot to be seen, just hardwoods and hollers. Killed a pile of deer in those woods.

When I stopped doe killing off green fields, bucks started being killed on them. It's fun to watch multiple bucks feeding on a field. Never saw that before, at least during deer season. Killing them in the woods works to, but dragging them out is a PITA.