Trapshooter1
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I'm hunting a neighbors cover crop.They re flocking to it every night. A dozen does and a decent buck.
abnormal late season. what's everyone's game plan?
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HorseDoctor
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Greens are good til it gets nasty, then grain rule.
hotshott2289
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cross my fingers and hope for not 50 degrees and rain
Trapshooter1
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Hunting the cover crop is adapting to the heat. I have quite a few spots that go from sunbathing to food source. Normally that s my late season spot.
Forestryguy
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Where is there ice?
Playing on them finding the last of the does that were not breed.
Seeing the most activity on cereal rye that has been put on as a cover crop. All greens are getting hammered right now. Clover and winter wheat are mowed down like a golf course green.
Whether it's 50 degrees or 5 degrees the deer will move to the easiest food source and the least pressure.
Granted a cold snap and bad weather would get them up and concentrated on their normal late season patterns and food sources but I'm not sure if we will see cold temps and snow until after the 10th. Back to the old saying of " ya can't kill one from the couch"
Goodluck everyone and be safe!
Whether it's 50 degrees or 5 degrees the deer will move to the easiest food source and the least pressure.
Granted a cold snap and bad weather would get them up and concentrated on their normal late season patterns and food sources but I'm not sure if we will see cold temps and snow until after the 10th. Back to the old saying of " ya can't kill one from the couch"
Goodluck everyone and be safe!
Daver
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Totally agree. ^^ In fact, one of the "hottest" fields I know of right now is a field that was in corn this year and after the harvest the farmer baled the stalks off of it leaving it pretty barren. I remember thinking to myself at the time that that field wouldn't be feeding any deer this winter...
Well, I was wrong...AGAIN!
Because the farmer then drilled in rye in mid-to-late October and it is now a pretty green field of new rye and very popular with the local deer herd. Whodda thunk that rye drilled in late October would be doing so well now in December? But the continual wet and warm weather allowed that field to blossom.