I have a doe tag that I planned on saving for gun season. I haven't shot a deer with my gun since I can't remember when. If we're close to the lead late in the game, I'll convert that doe tag into 50 points for us. If we're in contention, my deer rifle can wait 'til next year.
Should have the 50 points for sure, but not seeing many bucks on my place yet so probably 40-50% on putting a good buck down
quick stick to your guns its a contest and suposed to be fun, dont change for it. I will be takin a doe soon, andi have 2weeks of vacation planned for end of Oct and begining of Nov, so chances are high of letting the air out of a good buck then if not before. we will be fine when the cards are folded at the end!
Yeah Quik, if you've got the itch to Corelokt a nanny, then by all means belch fire baby. We're gonna be just fine.
Not that I want to be accused of aiding & abetting the FWB's but, I'm sensing a business opportunity here. For $6.70 plus a modest $500 "guide fee" I could hook quik up with a dynomite doe hunting spot, with a season that runs from basically this saturday until almost the end of january minus a few weeks in there. That's the low, low price of $10 a point for this contest, points that could help send the FWB's into Bowhunting.com immortality. Price includes: Access to a stand hung in PRIME whitetail habitat, that's walking distance from my back door. The use of my lawn tractor to drag out the deer. 2 quality photos taken for the contest(must let my dog sniff the carcass in the photo)
Rybo - if I get a 2b doe tag, would u wanna try a traditional doe hunt one day or evening? I think I can get them OTC, right?
Definitely! That'd be a blast. Yea any county courthouse. Or text me your CID & I can pick one up at lunch, since i'm right across the street at work.
I'm gonna put my chances on killing a doe at 100%, but only around 60-70% for killing a buck. I'm hoping to put 50 points up before mid-October.
As far as scoring, I'll put myself at 80-90%. Hunting these deer in these mountains is tough, but if you put your time and go about it intelligently, you can get yourself an opportunity at a doe before it's all said and done. The goal is shoot a doe on opening day, I feel very strongly I can make that happen this year. But if that doesn't happen, then certainly before Halloween, so I can concentrate on the bucks. As far as shooting a buck, realistically, it's very low, I will say 20%. I have been bowhunting my property for 6 years and haven't shot a buck with my bow yet. It's just tough to figure deer out in the mountains, but I am getting very very close. However, my food plots this year look great, and will concentrate the does in the center of my property so my chances this year for arrowing a buck are better than they ever have been. It will be an exciting fall.
Cody, I remember seeing your pics of your clover plot earlier this year, and it looked great. How is it looking now? What else do you have in the ground? Any of you other guys doing any foodplotting? I lost my foodplot virginity this year. We did maybe 1/3 acre of clover/chicory in late may, and it came in pretty good, but it's sorta being overtaken by grass. We got it in late, and I understand that clover/chicory plots do better the following year. I mowed it 2x, but I think it needed one more cutting. We put in approx. 1 acre of Big-n-Beasty Brassica mix in August, and it's coming in with a vengeance. I'll have to post some pics once I get 'em uploaded. It's a mix of turnip, sweet beet, radish, rape, even carrot (I think). Problem is, despite the manufacturer's claim that the deer will leave it alone until mid-October, they're already annihilating it. The plot looks like a barnyard! I mean, I guess I can't complain that they're eating the food that we planted for them, but the fact that they're mowing off the tops is retarding the bulb growth. I'm banking on those bulbs being in the ground for winter, b/c odds are that at least one of us will be still holding a buck tag when gun season rolls around. Next year, we're definitely going to re-plant the big-n-beasty, but we might have to rope it off until the end of September or something. All in all, it looks pretty legit for a couple yuppie farmers.
Quik Hope those deer don't jump the rope buddy, cause they'll eat it all again, LMAO u crack me up . Rocky
Come on, Rock! Cut me some slack! They make some kind of deterrent spray that you apply to a rope around the plot. It's called Plot Saver - supposedly it works, but I'm pretty damn skeptical. I'll prove it: http://www.foodplots.com/pages/food-plots/food-plot-accessories/plot-saver Like you, I think they'd just bound right over it and gorge themselves, but if we're putting in all this damn work, we've gotta try SOMETHING! Speaking of big bucks - do you have your eyes on any big boys? I know you're up there in the land of the giants, so I'm betting that you're at least sniffing around a big buck or two! Pat - I'll get those pics to you when I get 'em. It looks like somebody just mowed everything off at an even 8". The whole place is mudded-up with deer prints like a barnyard, with scrapes all along the south (downhill) edge.
Not exactly cheap....but from everything I've seen and heard, its effective. http://www.gallagherusa.com/wildlife/foodlot.protector.aspx We're probably going to use one on a plot next year. Its a small plot a ways from other major food sources and it got mowed down this year....bad. Next year we plan on making it 1 acre and the results would be the same without the fence. The bastard on the right is 6 years old and needs to die....bad. Oh, he's in that plot, so I had to throw the pic in.
All 14 of my plots are turning to stems very quickly They are in the acorns now my a$$ ! They love my plots maybe too much. Time to thin the herd
Danno, we're centered in about 500 acres of nothing but hardwoods, thicket, pine and swamp, so suffice it to say, the plots that we're putting in are attracting a lot of attention. We're either going to have to plant more of our open areas to increase the tonnage, or put out some kind of summertime deterrent if we want it to last thru October. We have a really big doe family regularly bedding squarely between the two plots. They're a blessing and a curse. I wish they'd leave the place, because they tend to take over, they eat a lot, and they're just generally a pain in the ass. But once the winds of November start to blow, it's going to be a buck parade through the redlight district. Even with those territorial does running the show, we still have some nice looking bucks satelliting around. This season is looking pretty promising. Pat - You're right, it is addicting. I got a small taste of what our property "could" look like. We're one step away from having a foodplot situation that looks like it's straight out of Buckmasters. All we need next year is more seed and a little better homemade implement for turning up the virgin soil. Our planting timing was also borderline late for both plots, so there's room for improvement.
Same with us. There are very few ag fields around us. We currently have 640 acres, but its not all together. This particular plot is on the north 120, over a mile from the rest of the property. The only ag field in the area up there is .5 miles NW. Travel N or E and you don't run into any ag for many miles. Our south properties have some ag around them, but very little. Like you, this is my first year doing much food plotting. All the years in Canada kept me from doing so. I've really enjoyed it and really plan on stepping it up even more next year.
