Food Plot Deterrent Question
08-19-2010 | 06:41 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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This is a good time of year to get some cheap or discounted wire fence material from your local garden center. They usually have stuff on sale to get rid of things before the fall/winter.
Other than a fence I'm not sure what deterrant you can use without actually chasing away the deer with sents and scarecrows.
Good Luck!
Other than a fence I'm not sure what deterrant you can use without actually chasing away the deer with sents and scarecrows.
Good Luck!
08-19-2010 | 06:43 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: central and east texas
You can keep them out for awhile. I put a non-electric fence around my soybeans, then sprayed it with deer away. That kept the deer out until the beans were big enough to handle grazing, but they eventually ignore any 1 repellent after awhile. Switching products regularly may help.
Here is a warning though. This guy showed up 10 minutes after I sprayed deer repellent, and was eyeballing that fence. He ignored me pounding fence posts, the parked car, and us talking to each other. These things are more destructive than 20 deer.
Here is a warning though. This guy showed up 10 minutes after I sprayed deer repellent, and was eyeballing that fence. He ignored me pounding fence posts, the parked car, and us talking to each other. These things are more destructive than 20 deer.
08-20-2010 | 04:57 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: central and east texas
08-20-2010 | 02:51 PM
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Fork Horn
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He sat there just off a blacktop road at 3:30 in the afternoon and watched us. The Mrs and I were pounding in t-posts with a poast driver and talking to each other, maybe 100 yards away (you can see the trunk of the car in the original photo). This guy had to be just across the road, and must have smelled the deer repellent I sprayed just minutes before. That is a regular camera photo. After about 2-3 minutes of sniffing the air real hard, he just walked off slowly with an "I'm a big bear, out of my way" gait. He did walk well around us, but he got me bringing up buckshot now. Biggest black bear I have ever seen by far.
