Brian662
5 year old buck +
He's standing in what is left of a NW whitetails brassica planting. The other strip was a mix of cereals/clovers.
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Is there much food left there or did they eat most of it? My bean and corn plots are pretty much wiped out in se mn, so I might switch back to more brassica blends next year. Those seem to last a little longer.
bigboreblr
5 year old buck +
Once the maple buds get a little fatter, down one or two of them. Almost guaranteed to get a shed or two in them. A little awrmup after this cold spell might be the perfect time. Antlers get hung up trying to get the buds. week later, cut the high branches down, they'll be at it again.
Brian662
5 year old buck +
This is on our new property and we have about 3.5 acre destination plot and about 5 acres in total. Routinely had 20-35 deer in the destination plot from October to early December. If it wasnt for great brassica tonnage, they would have had it crushed much earlier. I like row crops, a lot but they don't provide the same amount of food during the season as other plantings, IMO. They are expensive and don't provide the serious attraction during Oct/Nov like greens do from my experience. I would need a really big plot or lower deer numbers to plant more grains on this property.
All that being said, we mostly ran out of food on this property and didn't hit our doe harvest objectives, so we'll see what next year brings.
Brian662
5 year old buck +
I love beans, great way to clean grasses out of a field. However...there is a month or better when they're yellowing that they draw absolutely zero attention from the deer. That doesn't fit well into my management plans, especially in MN. If I have a target buck, I NEED my October food to be 100% dialed in to have a crack at him before the guns F everything up in early Nov. I don't have enough acres of plots to satisfy Oct through Feb so I have started favoring Oct through Dec.
Derek Reese 29
5 year old buck +
Your sentiment on killing a buck in an early archery or MZ season before the orange army starts marching is shared by many on this forum…
S.T.Fanatic
5 year old buck +
I would agree with this but only when we have 6+" of snow on the ground. When we don't get snow the deer don't touch my brassicas.
Stubborn1VT
5 year old buck +
I would say more than half have shed. There were lots of shed bucks who showed up when the Pantry opened in early December.
T-Max
5 year old buck +
You couldn’t keep me out of the woods knowing those were on the ground somewhere…
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H20fwler
5 year old buck +
And those pics are 24 hours apart!You couldn’t keep me out of the woods knowing those were on the ground somewhere…
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Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
Probably laying out in a nearby wheat field
Mortenson
5 year old buck +
I was thinking in The Big Woods!
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
That is exactly where I think they are, or in the native grass pasture right next to it.
The cameras are showing about half the bucks have shed. Seeing around 30 deer in the evenings over there when I drive by.
Only downside is it keeps snowing off and on here.
S.T.Fanatic
5 year old buck +
My downside is there isn't any snow on the ground. Snow is your friend for shed hunting.
Mortenson
5 year old buck +
Cool, good luck when you search. Is that a buck you know? Just curious if he comes around a lot, or if you go in there now would you expect him to spook out and not return for a long time?
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
It was through the property all season, was my youngest son’s target buck. Mostly at night.
A lot of deer are yarded up on us this winter for the first time ever, so I don’t want to bump any of them out right now.
With the few inch’s of snow we have on the ground the sheds should keep for awhile? At least we are hopeful that they will, still a few bucks on camera that haven’t dropped yet too.
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