Deer season

[Thomas]

Hope he hangs around.

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:thumbsup: Whatever your doing keep it up.

 

[Grumpycat]

 

[BRMyers]

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"I believe I can fly"

 

[Otto Syracuse]

Looking forward to deer season too! Planted a food plot last night of winter peas, clover and darken radish. Should be ready for our archery season and through the winter. Also will be planting winter rye later today.

 

[wwdiii]

Planting food plots and trail cams are my favorite part of hunting. My food plots are small even though our hunting area is 5000 acres. Its owned by a Timber company, we got lots of trees. We are limited on areas to plant but can plant in shooting lanes and etc.

I enjoy taking my tractor to the hunting lease and brush hog shooting lane and doing work.

The end of may I planted a couple small patches of Red Ripper Cowpeas. Even though I forgot to buy Fertilizer they came up pretty good. Lucky enough to have a semi wet Summer in East Texas.

Hope to get out of the big city and back to my place in the country next weekend. I need to make a bracket to mount a tool box on my tractor. Also need to make a mount to carry my chainsaw. Also plant to try to get to my hunting lease and plant more food plots for the fall.

Thanks, Billy

 

[atsah]

Why are the deer in the south so small?

The deer here in Maine are big deer, if one had a rack like the pictures here it would be 275lbs.. It's a mystery to me why the deer aren't bigger in the south, you would think with easier winters they would be able to eat grass longer and keep summer weight longer into winter..IDK..

 

[AWSubie]

Deer don’t eat grass. They eat forbs and mast. I can only speak for the south western region and because this region does not get as much rain the summer can be a challenge for deer to find adequate nourishment.

 

[Shaneard]

Why are the deer in the south so small?

The deer here in Maine are big deer, if one had a rack like the pictures here it would be 275lbs.. It's a mystery to me why the deer aren't bigger in the south, you would think with easier winters they would be able to eat grass longer and keep summer weight longer into winter..IDK..

Big deer here in central N.C. don’t get much over 200 pounds. This one scored 165 1/8 and weighed 195 pounds. He lacked 1” of being the state record non typical with a bow at the time. I shot him with a compound bow in 2003 at 10 yards 12’ up a tree.

I’m guessing they don’t pack on as much fat as up north because our winters aren’t as harsh.

 

[k0ua]

I think it is all about the food supply. Our forrest deer here in Southwest Missouri is fairly small as a rule while in upstate Missouri in Farm country where there are lots of corn crops to eat they are generally much larger.

 

[atsah]

Deer don’t eat grass. They eat forbs and mast. I can only speak for the south western region and because this region does not get as much rain the summer can be a challenge for deer to find adequate nourishment.

I figured they ate grass because every evening I see a herd of them in a field of timothy grass with their heads down in it..