marty 56

What cover do you have for deer on your place and if you could change it what would you go with? I have new aspen growth with pines and spruce planted in the middle. I would like about 20 acres of cedar swamp on mine.....marty

CatskillHuntr

I have laurels on my land, and I can't stand them. The deer never come out of them, and you can walk through them, or even see into them.

If I had my choice, I'd pick a brush field or a stand of Pines & Ceders

halcon

Some heavy brush and some replanted forest clearcuts .

CatskillHuntr

Webcicle

Anybody plant prairie grass (a.k.a. buffalo grass) ?? I hate bird hunting in the stuff and it grows over five feet tall.

remingtonman

I have pines with some mix hardwoods. The hardwoods have white and red oak, maple and poplar as the predominant trees. I have left the understore growth in the pines and have a nice tangle of greenbriar mixed throughout the pines. This provides excellent bedding and browse area for the deer. I have a spring fed pond with 2 1/2 acres of food plots and in one corner there is about 20 acres used for agriculture. One of the things I would like to change is that one of my food plots (1.5 acres) is in the corner of the agricultural field next to some cover but still too visable to a main road. I would like to plant something eventually to seperate the food plot from the other field some the deer will feel more secure using it more during the day.

Dan O.

I've got the ultimate deer cover. It's so good it's murder to hunt. I've got 40 acres of cattail - maple swamp. There are small dry areas that the deer bed in throughout it. The cattails are 5-6' tall and thick. No one walks through it, so the deer are never bothered. When they come out of the swamp they have 100' of spruce-cedars and shrubs for travel ways along the water edge. Then the whole area is next to a 320 acre of no hunting education center on 2 sides and 8,000 acres of lake/wildlife forest and impenetrable swamp with islands on the other. It makes life interesting.

Dan O.

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marty 56

Very interesting the different types of cover. My cover is somewhat limited at the time although I have almost five thousand trees planted with mostly white red pines along with blue norway and white spruce. I just found a place where I can get unlimted balsam trees that I'm trying out.


I planted some switchgrass last year but problem being here too dry. The droughts have been hard for the last few years. I find red pines work the best in open sun but can be put in the shade but it make growth slower. White pine grow good but deer browse on them a lot on the winter.

Anyone have any idea how long switch grass takes to get say 5 foot?? Thanks...marty