Summer nothing beats soybeans (sure they will browse all the way to the field but once there, its all soybeans). Fall nothing beat a white oak acorn. I recently became aware of how much deer like chicory. I've planted a lot of food plots over the years but never chicory and boy was I missing out. Radish is another favorite for a plot. Cut a maple tree down and let it stump sprout (deer candy).
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Deer browse
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Mulberry is another one they will pound, fruit and leaves. My favorite mast tree is a honey locust when the pods are plump and gooey. Bears and hogs dont seem to key on them at all and every buck deer within a mile will be there.
Dewberry is a fantastic draw, esp late season.
Agree on honey locust. I had forgot that one. Had one of those in my old farm fields, wanted to cut it down to get rid of the thorns but it was an awesome bow sit
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Now you mentioned this, the Northern Catalpa Pods are like deer Cain in the winter months. If you can find where a tree is dropping them on the snow. What a location to hunt.
Didnt know that but have never seen a catalpa where deer would be.
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We have an old cemetery on a dead-end street in our community. My buddy is a contractor and has a storage structure up there to the east of the cemetery on about 2 acres. There's an old Catalpa there that drops its beans every winter and the deer tracks around that tree are amazing. I've hunted it a few times myself.
Oh yea they eat the hell out if it.
More browse to look up or research is stuff Way out in the marsh.
There are alot of browse people dont realize.
Theres certain grasses and several other shrubs that grow out in the middle of the marsh and alot of times during high hunting pressure.
They will head torwards that stuff and eat on it until dark and then head into the woods or ag fields.
One example most people know about is dogwood or even spice bush.
that stuff grows anywhere lol
Look up what do deer eat out in the marsh.
you be surprised.
I have become a deer food research nerd in the last few years lol.
Especially late season foods.
Another great food and in my area is locust pods they are not real abundant in my area but there is some
so if I find some I need to to know when they are dropping.
locust pods deer love. Especially honey locust pods.
so if I find some I need to to know when they are dropping.
locust pods deer love. Especially honey locust pods.
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I don't target food much, unless it's apples. They'll be on apples into November. Unfortunately, the wild apple trees have suffered from a couple of severe weather events over the last decade or so.
Young maple gets action in early October by me.
Mix tabasco sauce and water. Spray thrm 1-2 a week and they wont touch thrm. Works like a charm.
Unless you have couess deer.
Besides acorns and random green leafy fresh shoots I find these the most around here. Deer eat the palmetto berries and hogs really like them
Deer like to browse around in the gallberries...I think they eat the leaves more than the berries but I don't know for sure
Deer like to browse around in the gallberries...I think they eat the leaves more than the berries but I don't know for sure
Virginia creeper is another I see them eat a lot
Tons of that here. Virginia creeper really grows a ton in our pine thickets
Good stuff right there bro. Thnks
Got a pic of dewberry?
