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Hilarious!



Ya can't look at it that way. I raise cattle for a living, yet have plenty of deer. It's true deer and cattle don't get along the greatest, but there are ways to have deer on your property and keep the cows. What do y'all feed the cattle? is it not crop land separate from the pasture/woods?

There's gotta be a way to change your situation without costing a huge amount of money or affecting the cattle operation.

It is not going to cost a lot of money to go out and buy some scent-free soap or shower gel to shower with and some laundry detergent to keep your hunting clothes scent-free also,buy some Scent-Killer spray also so the next thing would be your shoes/boots.Keep them scent-free so you not leaving scent everywhere you walk...the more scent-free you get the MORE DEER you will see and not scare away/off the land you hunt.You don't have to run out and buy a $200.00 to $500.00 set of Scent-Loc clothes as long as you practice scent control with the regular hunting clothes and gear you already have and even if you do have the Scent-Loc Gear you need to practice scent control with them too!

This past year of Deer Hunting was difficult for me also..most of the Deer were nocturnal and a lot wiser and tougher to hunt so I'm going to have to be smarter and more scent-free conscious myself this coming 2010 Season!

i am from NW MO...and we have a creak that runs down the middle of our property...grass and open on one side and timber on the far side....there is no way to get across it on our 4 wheeler...but our cows have a daily routine.....they cover our 200 or so acre plot of land a day...start at our house and work clockwise...they literally could stop at my food plot on a daily basis...

On the Cow Situations....we fence off several large area's for food plots then after planting we usually pull down the top strand of barbwire in certain area's we want the Deer to jump so the Deer can get into the food plots but the Cows can't.....did I mention I hate Cows?

Would it be possible to fence off an acre or two with some barbed wire?

my dad wouldnt go for it..."wasting his cows grass"...our grass to him is like a 5th child lol

Time to rent land or buy some.

Well then I would go along all the logging roads,road ways and pathes and frost seed some clover to at least help in drawing the Deer in?I usually buy the clover at the local Feed Store so I can buy a few pounds of say White Clover,Red Clover and Ladino Clover.Then when I get home I mix them together and walk long the mowed field edges,roadways and old or new cleared logging roads and spread the seed out as I walk.Usually the end of Feb and the 1st of March is the best time to do any frost seeding I may do this for 2-3 weeks when the timing/weather is right and I buy a few pounds each week when I have a little extra money and I have been doing this for the last 4-5 years and after a while it adds up to some nice pathes of clover around the Farm.....did I mention "I HATE COWS"? GRRRrrrrrrr

Your land is prety much like mine. Hit or miss.