Lets talk food plots
 

Ok so what kind of food plots you gonna plant and for bow or mid to late season. I am gonna do my bird seed plot for early season and a couple of oats and mix of rye grass and winter wheat for mid to late season. Hard part on early season is they dont wanna get off of the acorns.

(off subject) nice buck in your avatar. what did he score??

Nor sure what we planting yet. Been a while since I been on a lease.

We are in the piney woods. I need to do some research.

What do you guy's' use?

camo corn works good at wma s look it up! j/k but not really !!!

I hunt the piney woods in Starks. I have had good luck with the mix they have at Fletchers....it grows good and they eat it but don't waste too much time and money until you test your soil. You will need lime to get the ph right. It took me 2 seasons before I finally got mine right and once I did it made all the difference in the world to the plot.

I usually plant Labor Day Weekend but I'm skeptical with this lack of rain fall.

I doubt anyone will plant early. I went up to ragley today... Lord we need rain.

Yea....I don't know if my disc will even bust the ground.

Sad thing is, I thought the same thing.
New 45-70 next saturday. I'm ready to drop a big boy this year. Think I'm going to deer hunt hard this year.

We tried to disk at our lease in jackson parish two weeks ago,ground is like cement. If we don't get a good rain soon I don't think it will be worth the time or money to plant.

you can always plant rye. it will grow anywhere. you dont even need to plow. deer will eat it after everything else is gone.

Suggestion...... hunt the acorns, forget the food plot.

The Biologist are saying w/ the drought that the acorns will be falling very early this year.

with it being so dry I would just cut the grass short and plant somthing like a mix that don't need to be plowed in, by leaving the grass and not plowing the ground will hold moisture alittle better and then if we start to get some good rain just plow half of the plot under and replant somthing else.

I normally plant cow peas(iron clay peas) winter wheat & winter oats. The cow peas will be good for bow season even with acorns on the ground. For you guys that hunt lots of piney areas......lime lime lime. Piney areas are usually very acidic, lime needs to be cut in way in advance. Main thing is get a soil test & they can recommend how much lime & what type fertilizer to use.

Also I'll disk around the last week or 2 of Sept then watch weather for rain then plant right before a good rain.

Anyone ever planted Okra for deer?
I have heard of planting peas, how do they like them?

We plant 100% Crimson Clover. We have been doing this the past three seasons and have seen more deer in plots than ever before. It is sweet to the deer and is easy to grow. Plus the turkeys love it all the way through the spring. Much cheaper and easy to plant with great results. I'm not planting anything else other than maybe a mustard green patch or too for me and the deer lol

Corey, Where is your lease? Crimson clover huh. I am going to have to try that.

South or DeRidder on Hwy 27. Our gate is in the big curve about a mile before the Beckwith Church

I have been debating also on planting later this year. I have just looked at the 7 day forcast and lots of H2O is in the future for this weekend. Mine is all disked up and ready. Just dont want them to burn up with no water and all this heat.
I am trying this blend that LSU puts out. Its called buck busters. 30% wheat, 30% rye, 30% oats. Has winter peas and several clovers in it. 50# plants a acre.

I'm in a club north of Longville. Anybody else hunts this area?

I don't hunt your area but buck busters has worked great for me in the past. Go with 100 pounds of 13-13-13 per sack and you should see good results. We have experimented with different plots and we see the deer utilizing this plot way better than the other blends.

Think a guy I work with was on that lease, his name is Rick Burgess

Maybe 8 years ago. This is our 7th season and we only have two members. There are a couple of leases around the other curve south of the church. We are north. They are big leases with numerous members. Tough hunting in our area. Confident that we have the wildest deer in North America.

ok he was on one of the big ones right there

I have family on two of them. Good deer just alot of people. That is why we found our own property to have to ourselves. Got tired of all the arguments and miscommunication. We aren't great at what we do but we can do whatever we want. lol

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Im killing another big boy this year. This one needs a partner to hang with. This deer was shot if I remember correctly 4 years ago, and he was 5. His lil children should be running around my lease and looking like a elk. Hopefully I get em.

That is a hoss! good luck. You got cameras up?

I plan on buying a camera next weekend actually. We have plenty of does. Bucks seem to be harder to come by. I plan to just hunt creeks and bottoms this year. Then again that big boy was shot on a fire lane, but it just seems logical! lol

Ya'll need to pop as many does as you can. Bucks have no need to travel if you have to many does. Thin the does then you will see more bucks.

Fool where is your lease at? I'm 4 miles north of the longville store.

Ragley.

Sorry late reply the deer in my avaitar green scored 125 but officially havent got him real scored until he comes bck from taxidermy. Hunted that deer for 3 years have pics from when he was a 5 point. I am interested in this LSU blend. I still will plant my birdseed plots on field edges for bow season but lack of rain killin me. I have plenty oaks I can hunt so thats always a good place. I hate puttin too much rye cause it has little benefit for deer .

Rain forcast is 40 to 60% for Fri. - Sun. for south Louisiana.

Just know that if plentiful food is available, they wont utilize a food plot to its maximum

Leave the corn and food plots to the 'waiters'. Drought years produce many acorns, be mobile. If you HAVE to do something, fertilize your vines: honeysuckle, dewberry, blackberry, rattan, grapevines. If you absolutely HAVE to get on a tractor and do something, mow out thru the woods, it will set back the woody growth and allow new growth deer really like.

Whoever said Jackson Parish was DRY ain't lyin:help:! Man, most the trees in N La are looking really poor

Well looks like no one is planting this weekend with close to 10 inches of rain coming

Just planted 4 plots n put out lots of line n fert. Hoping for 3 inches of rain

Going to try it tomorrow afternoon or Sunday morning. We don't need much....just bust the soil open and plant. With this rain it will grow.

Off topic a lil sorry but do any of u guys hunt around Paris Texas?? Picked up a lease I couldn't pass up...

I hunted Junction area for several years. I got off this year

Man I hunted Llano county for 18yrs lost the lease about 6yrs ago.
I found this place this week figured I couldn't pass it up for 500 bones. 200 acres me my paw in law and a friend. They took a great 10 pt last year but all I want is meat!!! I have my trophy on the wall...
I just wanna know if I made a decent investment???

That is a good price for that area. The bad part is the drought this year. It will affect the herd for the next two years min. Cant go wrong for a meat hunt place.