Author Topic: Food Plots must work! (Read 535 times)

jh45gun · « **on:** September 19, 2004, 06:28:14 PM »

Local fellow shot a buck bow hunting yesterday in the WI Archery Opener. Now this fellow has been expirementing with food plots and antler growth stuff ever since it has become popular. Well it must work as I said he shot a buck. But what a buck. A 23 pointer that scored green if the info I heard was correct 244. I do not that much about the scoreing but I saw a pic of the Buck at the local sportshop in the town I was going fishing and hunting later. The town is my home town about 30 miles from where I live now so I like to fish and hunt there. What a monster! Wide rack and thick beamed and tined with high tines and points everywhere. I have to congratulate him not only for the buck of a life time but for the effort put in to get the buck that size and the effort to get him as he has been hunting this monster for 2 years. Two other guys have been hunting him off this fellows property also. Glad to see this guy who put in the extra effort with the feed plots ect pay off for him. Jim

big medicine · « **Reply #1 on:** September 20, 2004, 03:46:55 AM »

Around here food plots are the biggest waste of money there is. They might work in some place where there is nothing but timber and no crop ground. But in this area they dont work. Deer walk right through them to bean, milo, corn, and wheat fields. I have several friends that have tried quite a few brands and all say the same thing, the deer dont use them. We shoot some big deer in this area every year. Good genetics and good crop ground.

jh45gun · « **Reply #2 on:** September 20, 2004, 07:53:01 AM »

In this area there is no farms at all just trees and shrubs so I suppose it would be attractive to the deer around here. I know when guys bait them with corn they are like kids in a candy store even fight over it.

powderman · « **Reply #3 on:** September 21, 2004, 12:28:55 PM »

My tractor hasn't run for 6 years or so and I haven't been able to do what I used to do. I used to sow a mix of milo and soybeans just for the critters. A local seed dealer usually had a busted bag of the soybeans and I would disc up a good sized plot and sow the milo and soybeans. It was good not only for deer but rabbits and quail loved it too. By mid december there wouldn't be any milo seed heads left, the deer would bite off the whole seed head. They of course dropped grain ever time they fed and the quail ate those seeds. The soybeans were mainly for the rabbits. I sowed it pretty thick,which provided good cover for the smaller critters. There are corn fields all around here, but the deer still liked that milo. If you want to attract dove, or other birds, buy a big bag of BIRDSEED, add extra sunflower seed, and sow that. It will have milo, millet, broom corn, which also have seeds, and sunflowers, as well as other seed plants I don't know the names of. POWDERMAN.

Mikey · « **Reply #4 on:** September 23, 2004, 05:19:13 AM »

Around here food plots seem to work well. They really draw the whitetail in, especially if there is other food available and Bambi gets to thinking there might be enough for them to yard up in the area. I have seen where my food plots have been browsed regularly.

It depends on what you plant - I plant to give the deer adequate foliage for the fall and clover so they can get their yeast in the winter. They have worked well for me and I would say that if you have the time and capability to put one in you should try it. HTH. Mikey.