Hey guys,

This evening at about 7:45p.m. I decided to throw up my ground blind in my back yard and watch to see if any deer would come out into my food plot that I planted at the end of my back yard. It isn't anything great, just a 20 yard by 20 yard plot that I planted in some BioLogic. Well, when I first walked down there, a buck was already in the plot and he ran off. I thought that I blew it but I decided to set it up and watch anyways. Well, around 8:20 I saw a deer comming through the woods. A nice little buck started his way out followed by a really nice buck. They came into the plot and were feeding when I saw another deer comming. The first buck that walked out looked like a decent 2-1/2 year old. He already had a little spread showing, no main beam formation yet but he looks like he has some potential. The second buck that came out shocked me. He already had beams starting (they didn't start curving yet) and they were already out past his ears! I think that this is a buck that I got on my game cam last year that looked to be about a 18" wide 8 point. He looks like he is a 3-1/2 year old deer this year. Well, the third buck that came out had maybe 4" spikes. I am pretty sure that these three bucks are the group of 3 that I saw back in Jan. feeding in my plot. In Jan. one was the 8 point, another was a 6, and the smallest was a spike.

They were there for about 20 minutes and I saw them all three lift their heads and look towards and old trolly line that runs into my yard. Sure enough, two more little bucks came out. They started working their way through my yard towards the corner that I planted when the big one that was already feeding chased them off.

Finally, the bucks all left about 8:50p.m. and a few minutes later 3 doe worked out of my woods and into the plot. They didn't stay around long.

It just goes to show that you don't have to spend alot of money or time to help out your deer. The area I planted was grown up with brush last year. I chopped it down by hand then took my lawn tractor and put chains on the tires. I just ran over the plot doing dough-nuts until I had ripped the ground up. Put on a couple bags of PH Fertilizer and spread the seed!