scott44
5 year old buck +
In the middle 90's I took the back 10acres and just let it go thinking mother nature would take over and in a few years it would be better, wrong. I also started food ploting then trying to draw the deer off the neighbors, my neighbors to the north don't hunt so I had a 40 sanctuary there, we regularly watch deer bed over the fence in there woods. My first tree planting was a total disadter with about 90% loss because of deer and me not knowing what I was doing so around 2011-12 I started to do more than just try to draw deer with food plots by planting trees, NWG's, shrubs. My property had a ridge about 2/3's back that runs east and west so I can't see the very back from the house plus it slopes from west to east. My first priority was cover and screening so I planted a couple one acre fields of switch and NWG. I planted an orchard on the west end where it's higher and plater because I didn't want it in a low frost pocket. As I contintue planting I'm trying to move everything more towards to middle of my 40.
Here's a pic from 2010 and my plan, you can see I had the food plot pretty close to the north fence now it's closer to 80yds south. This lines are red is the back 10 acres, purple is switch, orange is MG screen, yellow is food plot.
Here is the current view of it with a couple more acres of trees and shrubs planted along with a orchard on the west line. The little square in the NE corner I prepped to plant switch in it this spring and I'm ringing it with MG.
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