Bowhunting the Lnds of Osage Orange

That's total BS. But, I'm gonna check with Bill Winke just to be sure.

 

Read that too. I was contemplating if it was worth it for next season. I could easily collect a couple tons on my place.

 

Right!?! I have em EVERYWHERE

 

I could probably pull some sort of lawn sweeper behind my tractor and pick them up buy the thousands. Or, I could hire some migrant workers to harvest them for me......

 

They make a nut weasel that will pick them up. I have deer come into the yard and eat some of the yellow leaves underneath the sugar maple this time of year, that doesn't mean that the maple tree would be a good stand location. There isn't much that they won't browse and nipple at, doesn't mean that I would consider it what they actually feed on.

 

I remember during a bad winter here a few years ago, they ate all the ivy off the trees as high as they could reach.

 

Love it! lmao

The thorns on those things ain't no joke.

 

I don't know about you all but the thud of hedge ball hitting the ground always scare the **** out of me. I couldn't imagine taking one on the noodle. That might leave a mark.... Like getting hit in the head with a softball that weighs 2 lbs.

 

We've got a fair amount of hedge on us, but definitely more oak, wheat, and native grass. I've never seen a deer touch a hedge ball, or the leaves. They'd rather be eating acorns, native grass, or the wheat. About the only thing I see enjoying hedge balls is squirrels and pack rats. I'm not saying deer won't ever eat any hedge, but I think a lot of it has to do with what other browse is available in a given area.

 

Why would you assume that's a safe bet? For all you know I may be more of an expert than you are willing to give me credit for. I'll readily admit I don't know "everything about deer" but after 30+ years of observation of them in the wild around hedge trees, I think I'm expert enough to safely say Mr. Winke's claim that they will walk past standing beans and clover is a load of horse ****.

Yes I've seen the video of them eating birds, never seen one do it in person, I'd say it's safe to assume it doesn't happen very often either. I've seen them eat bark, dirt, rotten grain, drink sewer water, eat gravel, eat and lick raw crude oil, play with coyotes, rabbits, turkeys and crows. None of those things are very common either but they happen...still never seen one eat a hedge leaf.

 

I have seen them eat both leaves and hedge ball normally they just nibble on them, but one bad winter the Deer were pounding the hedge balls in the snow, they would smash them with there hooves and then eat some of the inside, they musta not had much else to eat..