Sorry for the delay in writing. I'll be traveling to Maine this weekend to do a seminar at Dick's Sporting Goods. I wanted to get a post up to get some feeback on how everyone's food plots are doing this year. In my part of the world, we can really use some rain, and it looks like we'll get some this weekend while I'm away.
Blanton just wrote a blog on how much his family loves to hunt food plots, so I thought I'd pick your brain about your favorite hunting spots in the early season.
Yours in archery,
Travis
Blanton just wrote a blog on how much his family loves to hunt food plots, so I thought I'd pick your brain about your favorite hunting spots in the early season.
Yours in archery,
Travis
Hey T-Bone,
I love hunting food plots, but I also love hunting in the bottoms. I read Blanton's blog and it was good. We have not been able to plant our food plots yet b/c they cut all the hardwoods and drove all over the food plots. Also my dad is in Colorado and he'll be back this Sunday (I can't wait). We'll planting them real soon I hope. Talk to ya later and keep up the great work.
God Bless & Good Huntin'
Kristle Oberlander
PS: Stay safe and have fun in Maine. Has Southern Shooters opened yet??
Corn, Corn, Corn. Every other year I have two stands that are on the edge of the woods and corn. I have had some pretty exciting hunts over looking corn. So guess what? this year the field is CORN! I do ok when it is a bean field, but nothing like that golden, sweet, fat-stacking, yellow dent corn. The deer seem to have a sense of security with the corn standing, and the raccoons do a wonderful job showing the deer where and how to eat the corn. All you have to do is show up.
By the time bow season comes around in Northern Indiana, I usually do not see as many deer feeding on beans, or bean leaves like you do in late spring / early summer. But the corn is fully developed and starting to dry. The corn is not all that nutritional, but it really packs on the fat for the upcoming rut.
Sorry for beat'n around the bush on my answer, but did I mention I like to hunt standing corn?
Todd - Indiana
I have a spot I started hunting 3 years ago. It is at the end of a fence row at the intersection of 3 fields, they rotate beans, alfalfa and corn in the 3 fields every year. I have killed my biggest bucks out of that stand for the last 3 years. I checked my trail cam the other day and there was 2 bucks hangin together one was a 19" 8 point about 120" and a 18" 10 point around 130" they were both 3 1/2. I think I have got pics of 23 different bucks on that one camera, 3 shooters. Oct 1st cant get here fast enough.
Scott Withers-MI
hey t-bone
well this is the first time i have done this stuff.well i hunt most of the time i hunt in the swamps of NC and i only get to hunt about 3 or 4 days a year due to me being in the navy and gone all the time but iam about to leave here in sept and will be gone til april so i will miss all hunting this year but that is ok cause this time will be my last ime gone so maybe i will get to take some hunting trips ha ha ha stay safe and haf fun in maine.
jerry
Bone man,
I will have to agree with David on the whole food plot early season transition scheme. I hunt hardwoods of Missouri and any chance I get to bowhunt early season I head straight for the food source be a naturual field or a pre planned food plot. As Blanton said it is not just the hunt now dont get me wrong I love to lay the smack down on good mature deer but I have come to relise that the more time I spend in the woods the more I search for that entertainment aspect of the hunt, and well a nice well managed food plot has allways provided the best entertainment for me herein Missouri. Be safe and as always may God Bless you all.
Ken (Bubba)
Bone man,
I will have to agree with David on the whole food plot early season transition scheme. I hunt hardwoods of Missouri and any chance I get to bowhunt early season I head straight for the food source be a naturual field or a pre planned food plot. As Blanton said it is not just the hunt,now dont get me wrong I love to lay the smack down on good mature deer but I have come to relise that the more time I spend in the woods the more I search for that entertainment aspect of the hunt, and to be honest a nice well managed food plot has allways provided the best entertainment for me here in Missouri. Be safe and as always may God Bless you all.
Ken (Bubba)
Bone man,
I will have to agree with David on the whole food plot early season transition scheme. I hunt hardwoods of Missouri and any chance I get to bowhunt early season I head straight for the food source be it a natural field or a pre planned food plot. As Blanton said it is not just the hunt, now dont get me wrong I love to lay the smack down on good mature deer but I have come to relise that the more time I spend in the woods the more I search for that entertainment aspect of the hunt, and in my opinion a nice well managed food plot has always provided the best entertainment for me here in Missouri. Be safe and as always may God Bless you all.
Ken (Bubba)
Bone man,
I will have to agree with David on the whole food plot early season transition scheme. I hunt hardwoods of Missouri and any chance I get to bowhunt early season I head straight for the food source be it a naturual field or a pre planned food plot. As Blanton said it is not just the hunt, now dont get me wrong I love to lay the smack down on good mature deer but I have come to relise that the more time I spend in the woods the more I search for that entertainment aspect of the hunt, and a nice well managed food plot has allways provided the best entertainment for me here in Missouri. Be safe and as always may God Bless you all.
Ken (Bubba)