which crop during the fall will draw the most deer???
10-01-2005, 08:42 AM
#2
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Roanoke, VA
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RE: which crop during the fall will draw the most deer???
I would think brassicas would draw the most deer since deer don't start eating it until a couple of frosts hit it. I planted some a few years ago and they wore it out until it was gone. Most plants die after a few frosts, but this stuff will stay green at least through Dec. By then they ate it all.
10-03-2005, 02:34 PM
#3
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Bay City MI USA
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RE: which crop during the fall will draw the most deer???
I've got the answer now that I've gutted out the first deer of the season.
PLANT OAK TREES! The deer that we gutted was absolutely stuffed with acorns!
There were only a few traces of anything else at all.
PLANT OAK TREES! The deer that we gutted was absolutely stuffed with acorns!
There were only a few traces of anything else at all.
10-03-2005, 04:18 PM
#4
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pound WI USA
Posts: 429
RE: which crop during the fall will draw the most deer???
I think deer target a lot of things in the fall depending on location. If there are acorns available, they will spend some time there. This goes for a lot of ag crops as well like corn, beans, etc. But I think that if you want a fall draw, plant winter wheat, Winter rye, or Buck Forage oats. It's green under the snow and greens up early in the spring.
The doe I shot last November was full of bright green rye. My food plot was the only bright green crop around at that time of the year.
My$.02.
Brian
The doe I shot last November was full of bright green rye. My food plot was the only bright green crop around at that time of the year.
My$.02.
Brian
10-03-2005, 05:43 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ontario Canada
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RE: which crop during the fall will draw the most deer???
Whatever is the tastiest and the closest. It could be apples, corn, soyabeans, or acorns. If it's plentiful and close they'll fill up.
Dan O.
Dan O.
10-03-2005, 08:27 PM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: cazenovia, NY USA
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RE: which crop during the fall will draw the most deer???
I think its tough to beat apples - especially an old orchard setting.
Regardless of what else the deer are eating - they so often seem to stage in the overgrown apple orchards before dark - and before bedding down in the morning. Apples are ALWAYS a good snack, and the deer are comfortable in the cover they provide.
I like Rye for a fall plot - but usually hunt the apple areas 1st.
FH
Regardless of what else the deer are eating - they so often seem to stage in the overgrown apple orchards before dark - and before bedding down in the morning. Apples are ALWAYS a good snack, and the deer are comfortable in the cover they provide.
I like Rye for a fall plot - but usually hunt the apple areas 1st.
FH
10-04-2005, 03:57 PM
#8
Join Date: Apr 2005
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RE: which crop during the fall will draw the most deer???
We havent had a hard frost here in south central Missouri yet, but the smaller trees in my persimmon grove are ripe, there are tracks all over the place under them, they have been eating anything they can reach, I think good ole corn during the fall is the best especially when the acorns have disappeared, this year the oaks are loaded with acorns, as soon as they run out, the corn is like gold! Also my Milo field is is a real hot spot during muzzleloader season.
10-04-2005, 05:47 PM
#9
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 1969
Location: Townsend, DE US
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RE: which crop during the fall will draw the most deer???
I just pulled in my driveway at 7;04 pm Edst and 5 deer hitting my pile of corn behind the house, I saw it was depleting a little and thought maybe it was crows , but found out for sure tonight.....
10-05-2005, 06:13 PM
#10
Join Date: Oct 2005
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RE: which crop during the fall will draw the most deer???
The Farmer that owns the property where I hunt rotates corn and beans and I haven't found that the deer prefer either one. At dusk there has been an equil number of deer on both crops. I have noticed in earlyer years that a wheat feild near by holds more deer later in the season.