As spring inches closer, a lot of folks are pulling their fishing gear together and prepping for the coming turkey season. But some of us never stop thinking about whitetails and are already working ...
Given how small these plots are, my vision is that would be the reason deer hunters would use them,” says Adams, who isn’t relying on the little plot to produce much tonnage (though Williams is more ...
Countless properties across Cleveland County and Oklahoma are being purchased for recreation, and most of these landowners are planting food plots. While food plots are not a substitute for good, ...
affordable that will last more than 10 days in the isolated food patches I have scattered down the edge of the Edisto River swamp. Fall plantings are not a problem. Years ago I settled on oats, radish ...
Large or small, a food plot can be useful on a deer lease or private land. They take some planning and preparation and can consist of anything from a simple plot of winter wheat to one with some of ...
A deer eats a plant you don’t recognize. Then, another, and another, and it “selects” these over your food plot or corn pile. On another hunt, a buck hits several obscure native species, and ...
If you’ve ever watched a whitetail deer browse, you’ve seen them nonchalantly pick specific plants to devour while ignoring others. A fancy way of describing that behavior is to say that deer are ...
My friend Freddy McGuire started working toward Saturday’s archery season opener several years ago. That’s when he brought in a timber operation to cut out a few small openings on his tract of hilly ...