How To Hunt This Property

[jonezzy026]

This is roughly 140 ac property that has lots varying elevation. The town we are in has very good hunting, Missouri River Bottom and lots of ag. The closest ag fields/ destination food sources are over a mile away in each direction. We really lack seeing big number of deer especially once frost hits i think due to there being very low amounts of food. We recently had a select cut on most of our property so cover shouldn’t be an issue for upcoming years. What is something we can do to help better our hunting, especially later into the season.

To the top left of our property we have about a two acre field that i’m looking into putting into food to help. I will attach a photo below of my plan.

I’m open to any advice or opinions. Thanks for any input

Thanks


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[Telemark]

Milo, soybeans, clover, and brassicas. Overseed your soybeans with winter wheat when the leaves turn yellow. You'll cover pretty much everything a deer could want.

Put in some fruit and hard mast trees, and your place will be the hot ticket smorgasbord of the whole area in ten tears. Dwarf chinkapin oaks will probably give you the earliest return for hard mast trees. Some chestnuts and hazelnuts might round out the near term. In Missouri you can grow almost any fruit. Do at least apples, pears, and persimmons. The sky's the limit for you.

 

[Kev]

The select cut will help, but I would follow up with controlled burning and additional TSI. I did heavy TSI on my Missouri property and it's really making a difference. Ironwood was the dominant understory plant and it shaded out a lot of sunlight. It's gone now.

 

[Stubborn1VT]

If it was me, I would consider patch cuts (small clear-cuts) as well as plots. Pretty big return on your time investment.

 

[BenA]

When you say, select cut, what was taken out? Select cuts can mean different things to different people. Diameter cut? Cut the best? What are you left with as far as species and percent of open canopy?

 

[omicron1792]

I think you answered your own question. You need food.

For overall health I agree with above. Spray invasive. Burn. Clearcut some 5 acre pockets. All will give native browse flush. This will help hold deer.

Second is clear a large 5 acre area and plant a destination food plot.

Could be a great place my man. Welcome!