ORIGINAL: jcchartboy
I couldn`t believe the deer....The deer come right out of Hemlocks(which they used to eat) to get to the food plots.
Of course they do, why would the deer browse on matter that has very little nutritous value(hemlocks), when they have the option of feeding from nutritionally superior matter only a few feet away?Deer are very capable of deciding which foodsprovide the most nutrition, and will always eat those first when avaiable.That is the reasonwhy most people plant small food plots in the manner you chose. As far as hunting over them that isobviously a different agenda.
so bringing in a very nutritous source like Clover,alfalfa (that`s not natualy in your area) that deer are going to not go to thier normal feeding areas to go to the plots is not baiting? I say bait if you want but saying one isn`t baiting b/c one is larger/better nutriants/costs more$/takes more time/more animals feed off it is crap. Both bring deer in so we can shoot them. So the hunting divide continues. Last post on this topic. Good luck hunting with the 60 acre plots. I`ll stick with my po man 10X10 baiting food plots.
