OpticsTalk by SWFA, Inc. Homepage SWFA     SampleList.com
Forum Home Forum Home > Hunting, Fishing & General Outdoors > General Hunting
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - What is your favorite food plot for deer?
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Visit the SWFA.com site to check out our current specials.

What is your favorite food plot for deer?

 Post Reply Post Reply
Author
Message
Lockjaw View Drop Down
Optics Journeyman
Optics Journeyman


Joined: May/17/2016
Location: Chelsea
Status: Offline
Points: 434
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lockjaw Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Topic: What is your favorite food plot for deer?
    Posted: August/13/2018 at 09:15
Looking for some feedback. 

I have had great success with evolved harvest mega plot. Comes up fast, ton's of forage. 

This year I have the following I want to plant.

Evolved Harvest 7 card stud
Imperial Whitetail clover
Tecomate chickory, wicked greens, clover, trophy radish, and canola. 

My club mainly plants a grains mix, and our liming and fertilizing isn't what it needs to be. I am going to be planting several small plots of my own, using procal lime (4 50 pound bags raises the PH on an acre 1 full point) and fertilizer. I have enough seed to plant 2.5 acre's. 

I got a monsanto number to be able to get round up ready soybeans. I planted regular ones this summer, and trying to keep weeds at bay and needing 2 different herbicides that cost $$ compared to roundup makes paying extra for the GMO seed a no brainer for me. 

So every plot I plant will have clover in it, to add nitrogen. And then soybeans or lablab in the spring..... 
Back to Top
Peddler View Drop Down
Optics God
Optics God
Avatar

Joined: July/04/2012
Location: Oswego,NY
Status: Offline
Points: 13526
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Peddler Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/13/2018 at 09:49
No favorites, we plant a bunch. Corn, soy beans, clover, cow peas, brassicas, buck forage oats, and more.

Edited by Peddler - August/13/2018 at 09:58
When you are dead, you don't know you are dead.It is difficult only for others.

It is the same when you are stupid.
Back to Top
mike650 View Drop Down
Optics God
Optics God
Avatar

Joined: May/14/2006
Location: West of Rockies
Status: Offline
Points: 14569
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote mike650 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/13/2018 at 10:08
Here we’re not allowed to purposely use bait for deer.
“A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.” – Fred Bear
Back to Top
Peddler View Drop Down
Optics God
Optics God
Avatar

Joined: July/04/2012
Location: Oswego,NY
Status: Offline
Points: 13526
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Peddler Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/13/2018 at 10:33
Originally posted by mike650 mike650 wrote:

Here we’re not allowed to purposely use bait for deer.



We aren’t allowed to bait either, food plots are considered feed not bait. Really no different than most food crops that farmers bitch about the deer eating.😂
When you are dead, you don't know you are dead.It is difficult only for others.

It is the same when you are stupid.
Back to Top
mike650 View Drop Down
Optics God
Optics God
Avatar

Joined: May/14/2006
Location: West of Rockies
Status: Offline
Points: 14569
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote mike650 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/13/2018 at 11:10
Skip, here the keyword purposely .☺️
“A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.” – Fred Bear
Back to Top
Peddler View Drop Down
Optics God
Optics God
Avatar

Joined: July/04/2012
Location: Oswego,NY
Status: Offline
Points: 13526
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Peddler Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/13/2018 at 12:57
Originally posted by mike650 mike650 wrote:

Skip, here the keyword purposely .☺️


😂😂😂💥💥💥
When you are dead, you don't know you are dead.It is difficult only for others.

It is the same when you are stupid.
Back to Top
SVT_Tactical View Drop Down
MODERATOR
MODERATOR
Avatar
Chief Sackscratch

Joined: December/17/2009
Location: NorthCackalacky
Status: Offline
Points: 31233
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote SVT_Tactical Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/13/2018 at 15:44
 Normally around here we put out corn piles.... still legal but I've found that piles of sweet potatoes or peanuts work good when you cover them in molasses.
"Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be" - Abraham Lincoln
Back to Top
Sgt. D View Drop Down
Optics Master Extraordinaire
Optics Master Extraordinaire
Avatar

Joined: February/20/2008
Location: North Carolina
Status: Offline
Points: 4525
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sgt. D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/13/2018 at 16:52

 Everything works good with molasses!! Don't use it much these days. Not having as many "new" hunters come out. I could take a father, son to a stand that I had been baiting and ride past them and freshen up the pile and before I got out of hearing distance they would have deer in the pile.....

The good ole days.....

Take care of Soldiers, Show em how its done and do it with em, Run to the Fight & and hold your ground! I die my men go home! If you're a NCO and this ain't you. GET OUT! GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Back to Top
Peddler View Drop Down
Optics God
Optics God
Avatar

Joined: July/04/2012
Location: Oswego,NY
Status: Offline
Points: 13526
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Peddler Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/13/2018 at 19:04
Originally posted by SVT_Tactical SVT_Tactical wrote:


Normally around here we put out corn piles.... still legal but I've found that piles of sweet potatoes or peanuts work good when you cover them in molasses.



Apples work great as do Cider pressing all winter long.


When you are dead, you don't know you are dead.It is difficult only for others.

It is the same when you are stupid.
Back to Top
SVT_Tactical View Drop Down
MODERATOR
MODERATOR
Avatar
Chief Sackscratch

Joined: December/17/2009
Location: NorthCackalacky
Status: Offline
Points: 31233
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote SVT_Tactical Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/14/2018 at 10:01
 I bait for kids to hunt Sgt D just like you say.   IF I know I have a duo coming I'll keep a couple bottles handy to pour out a couple hours ahead of time.  Draws them in quick.
"Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be" - Abraham Lincoln
Back to Top
Sgt. D View Drop Down
Optics Master Extraordinaire
Optics Master Extraordinaire
Avatar

Joined: February/20/2008
Location: North Carolina
Status: Offline
Points: 4525
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sgt. D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/14/2018 at 13:25
 3,,,,,,,,,,,,,,2,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1
Take care of Soldiers, Show em how its done and do it with em, Run to the Fight & and hold your ground! I die my men go home! If you're a NCO and this ain't you. GET OUT! GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Back to Top
mike650 View Drop Down
Optics God
Optics God
Avatar

Joined: May/14/2006
Location: West of Rockies
Status: Offline
Points: 14569
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote mike650 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/14/2018 at 14:05


Goes with everything!  Big smile
“A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.” – Fred Bear
Back to Top
SVT_Tactical View Drop Down
MODERATOR
MODERATOR
Avatar
Chief Sackscratch

Joined: December/17/2009
Location: NorthCackalacky
Status: Offline
Points: 31233
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote SVT_Tactical Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/15/2018 at 07:49
 My favorite essential oil ever........ bacon greaseBig smile
"Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be" - Abraham Lincoln
Back to Top
Lockjaw View Drop Down
Optics Journeyman
Optics Journeyman


Joined: May/17/2016
Location: Chelsea
Status: Offline
Points: 434
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lockjaw Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/22/2018 at 09:25
Well I took a jar of molasses out and poured it on 3 of my mineral sites, so we shall see how long it takes them to find it......
Back to Top
urbaneruralite View Drop Down
Optics Journeyman
Optics Journeyman


Joined: January/03/2008
Status: Offline
Points: 479
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote urbaneruralite Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/22/2018 at 14:25
Buckwheat in summer, Austrian winter peas in not summer. You don't have to dig deep to get those to sprout. Buckwheat will sprout on a wet rock. Winter peas almost. These are soil builders I also use in fallow sections of my vegetable garden.

Thinking of doing throw 'n' mow alyce clover here back of the house. 

GA just passed baiting. My actual spots on the club will just have corn feeders and mineral licks of cow mineral mixed in with dirt in a hole. 
Back to Top
Urimaginaryfrnd View Drop Down
MODERATOR
MODERATOR
Avatar
Resident Redneck

Joined: June/20/2005
Location: Iowa
Status: Offline
Points: 14964
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Urimaginaryfrnd Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/24/2018 at 22:02
Turnips they stay in the ground till late in the year. Add ladino clover and you will draw them in.

"Always do the right thing, just because it is the right thing to do".
Bobby Paul Doherty
Texas Ranger
Back to Top
urbaneruralite View Drop Down
Optics Journeyman
Optics Journeyman


Joined: January/03/2008
Status: Offline
Points: 479
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote urbaneruralite Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/25/2018 at 16:29
The bonus of turnips is they make great reactive targets after deer season. Practicing your quick draw and blowing turnips pieces 20' high is amusing.
Back to Top
Lockjaw View Drop Down
Optics Journeyman
Optics Journeyman


Joined: May/17/2016
Location: Chelsea
Status: Offline
Points: 434
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lockjaw Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/27/2018 at 16:55
I like turnip greens.... Wink

My plan is to add clover to everything I plant. I want to be building nitrogen. I need to add some winter peas too. I don't think the deer on my lease eat them like they did on a place I used to hunt. 

Man I planted some there, they hit them like they say they hit soybeans. Mowed all them down, pulled up by the root, in one night. 
Back to Top
mike650 View Drop Down
Optics God
Optics God
Avatar

Joined: May/14/2006
Location: West of Rockies
Status: Offline
Points: 14569
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote mike650 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/27/2018 at 17:29
They like grapes too.



“A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.” – Fred Bear
Back to Top
Lockjaw View Drop Down
Optics Journeyman
Optics Journeyman


Joined: May/17/2016
Location: Chelsea
Status: Offline
Points: 434
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lockjaw Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September/05/2018 at 09:11
Well I got one plot planted. Took a 5 gallon bucket with me, and made 3 trips to the ag lime pile out there too. So it got 150 pounds of Ag lime, 100 pounds procal lime, 50 pounds of triple 17, 40 pounds of triple 13, a bag of 7 card stud, and about half a pound of canola crave. 

Then got my second spot disked up and added 3 bucket of ag lime to it. 

I sprayed my soy bean field with 2-4db, only 2 Tbsp per gallon, and it looks like the beans didn't care for it to much either. So it may get the disk this weekend.... 

It is amazing how fast i can disk up some ground with that ground hog max if there isn't a bunch of vegetation. 
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply
  Share Topic   

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down

Forum Software by Web Wiz Forums® version 12.01
Copyright ©2001-2018 Web Wiz Ltd.

This page was generated in 0.137 seconds.