food plots

[jsummitt]

hey guys,

i just got ahold of this property here in LA. i'm still new to deer huntin' since I've been doing bow hunting for 3 years now.

this place is an old camp that is now unused, (it has been unused for 2 years) and it has hardly ever been hunted except by me last fall when i had permission.

the camp has a 3 acre spring fed pond and lots of white oak trees surrounding the pond. it has about a 20 acre pine crop that is about 15 feet tall and thick is all get out. there are also many ridges and white oak areas in the back.

they found 150 inch 9 point sheds in april on the edge of an old baseball field.i have not been able to do any planting on this property during the spring or summer. i have put out some salt licks in areas where there looked to be traffic, (especially close to where sheds were found) with no luck. i'm guessing the bucks are not going to that area because there are no food sources...until the white oaks start dropping acorns.

anyway, what i would love to know is what can i do this weekend to keep some bucks in that area? there are not many places for them to feed (farms and such) in my surrounding area.

i would love to find this buck and try getting him on camera and pattern him to hopefully get a shot at him this fall. anyway, ya'll let me know what you think. sorry for this being extremely long. but i figured you needed to know it. haha. thanks.

[wtnhunt]

Guess it really depends on whether you are wanting to plant a perennial or an annual. If it were me and I had plenty of land to allow for it, I would plant some plots of both.

For perennials, think it would be tough to find anything better than the hamann farms trefoil clover blends.

Annuals, we like to plant mixes of peas and beans here early season and leave them in on into season. Typically use winter wheat, rye grain, and oats in the fall, planning to overseed where our bean plots are this year with wheat and oats come fall. If I can find some this year, I will also get some of pennington's wintergrazer rye, which is a rye grain.

Planted brassicas in mixes the past two years in a row and just did not get deer hitting those plots like others see due to having an abundant food source still available, but if your area has little food brassicas just might be the ticket for a fall planting.