Comparing Apples to Apples
I have my stand set up on the edge of a creek bed in a dense patch of woods surrounded by beans. There are tracks everywhere and plenty of bedding spots in some long strips of CRP to the east and west of me but for some reason I'm not seeing any deer. I have given up on morning hunts because the last time I showed up before first light I started walking from my car I made it 50 yards, heard a few doe bleats and then that was it (they are bedding maybe 100 yards from any entrance i have to the property). From now on I am going to be hunting in the afternoon and evening so they will most likely be making a pit stop in that patch of woods before heading to their bedding sites. I'm thinking of bringing some apples to leave behind after my next trip to the woods. Are there any specific types that deer prefer or should I try to just "match the hatch" of what other near by orchards are growing? Or have they already figured that this area is no longer safe and I'm just wasting my money and feeding the raccoons?