Month: August 2013

Wandering bucks

Wandering bucks Originally Posted by 2Dogs  Some bucks do wander, some take the 10 mile hikes, I feel these are the subordinates, bottom line they are individuals. You dang near completely summed up the entire article with 1 sentence. Obviously, I couldn't agree more. You have to preface everything with the fact that there are exceptions to everything. We try way too hard to force deer into hard and fast rules.…

Too many deer

Too many deer This thread brings up some really good points. The most important is to never underestimate the power or critical nature of adequate nutrition over whatever portion of the year causes deer the most stress/when high quality food is in least supply. In the north, that's winter. In the hotter areas that routinely experience drought, it's most often summer.Don't get me wrong. Overly long, hard winters or overly…

My food plots failed

My food plots failed So its midsummer and you decided to take a little drive and check out your bean and corn My food plots for deer.   You get there and what do you find?   Nothing the deer are going to be flocking to.  Its a bummer when My food plots failed, but you have options.  Today we are going to break down one example of how you…

Where do bucks take does?

Where do bucks take does? Steve Bartylla Each day is getting busier for me and I wanted to add something to the forum, as a thank you of sorts, for the ideas I’ve already gotten here. Also, though hinging of most non-oak species (oaks are best hinged during winter to avoid oak wilt) can occur any time during the year, I’ve found survival rates best when done before leaf out.…

TSI example

Does TSI (timber stand improvement) help or hurt? 'Willy' from the QDMA forum tells his story- In the 3-4 years that I have been performing hinge cutting, girdling, and select spaying I have changed my timber dramatically. (Size of farm is 80 acres with 50 acres being timber and tsi practiced on roughly half of it) Prior to this work it used to have the classic park understory. It had…

Deer hunting neighbors

Member Alex47 asks Steve- I have my eyes on 2 different properties.  One is bordered by weekend warriors from the cities 2 hrs away, and the other is bordered by locals who grew up there.  Any considerations on which is better? Steves reply- That's an extremely tough question to answer, as there are so many factors to consider outside of who owns what around you. That said, all else being…

Brents piece

July 13, 2013 Member Brent's piece of land is a little over 100 acres.  His cabin is in the NE corner, and there is a gravel road that runs along the east boundary.  Movement was fairly random, and he had carved out 4 food plots for archery hunting. [caption id="attachment_1435" align="alignright" width="524"] Before picture. The random and unpredictable deer bed to feed patterns had Brent bumping and educating deer quickly…

Deer food plots

Food plots work Perched in my stand that November afternoon, I watched in awe the large doe and her triplets as they feed greedily on the clover patch food plots I overlooked. The aspect that so enamored me was not the size of this robust doe, the health of her fawns or even the way they were devouring the clover, after all I knew it would be a deer magnet…