What are your deer eating, now?
10-10-2007 | 06:21 AM
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RE: What are your deer eating, now?
ORIGINAL: HAZCON7
Running out of things to post huh?
Running out of things to post huh?
I have no clue what my deer are eatin, I haven't been able to get out and hunt or scout in a few weeks.
10-10-2007 | 06:22 AM
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Dominant Buck
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RE: What are your deer eating, now?
No hazcon....I've been saying all year that I couldn't wait for them to get out of the beans and on the acorns. I just thought the variety of acorns(I picked these up in a 20' circle) was interesting.
Sorry you didn't.
Sorry you didn't.
10-10-2007 | 06:26 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: What are your deer eating, now?
Definitely acorns, as well as food plots. My 130 acres is a long belt that is probably a half mile long, one side is almost entirely focused on the plots, the other side is the acorns and hickory.......
10-10-2007 | 06:29 AM
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RE: What are your deer eating, now?
our deer (or oaks) must be different than yours Jeff. im thinking maybe the oaks drop earlier up here.
i know when my farmer buddy says he isnt seeing deer farming or coonhunting i know that means one thing. they are in the woods hitting the acorns. sure a few still hit the beans or corn...but they are mainly eating the acorns. when he said that the night before opening day, i knew not to hunt my lockon i had hung. good area...still see deer there i bet. but they would be moving through there..not eating there. i was walking through the spot i hunted last year and it was raining acorns. good thing i carried my climber in just incase...theres where i hunted. seen 2 bucks there thus far. definently a good year for acorns around here...
i know when my farmer buddy says he isnt seeing deer farming or coonhunting i know that means one thing. they are in the woods hitting the acorns. sure a few still hit the beans or corn...but they are mainly eating the acorns. when he said that the night before opening day, i knew not to hunt my lockon i had hung. good area...still see deer there i bet. but they would be moving through there..not eating there. i was walking through the spot i hunted last year and it was raining acorns. good thing i carried my climber in just incase...theres where i hunted. seen 2 bucks there thus far. definently a good year for acorns around here...
It sounded like a hail storm in my woods this week
10-10-2007 | 07:05 AM
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Typical Buck
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RE: What are your deer eating, now?
Acorns and apples. They are cleaning all my apple trees off as far as they can reach. I do know what they are not eating. The expensive food plot that I put in over the summer that my wife said " they are not going to eat that when they have all that other stuff to eat".
