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DOUBLE LUNG

DOUBLE LUNG

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Wondering what everyone else think, I picked up a new piece of property this year and when I was taking a walk around it I found some apple trees and rasberry bushes. They are both on the edge of the timber and I am wondering how I should set of for these food sources.
Info would be great.
 
How about an aerial photo or a sketch of the layout of the property, including the stuff you've found. (the apple trees, what's planted on it or next to it, especially and soy beans or alfafa, any water, thick woods, mature hardwoods, stuff like that.)

Matthew
 
I've watched deer feed from apple trees a few times. I found they pick them from the tree rather than search the ground. They can reach higher than I can by standing on the hind legs.
 
While searching for sheds I've found a load of sheds by or near apple trees and even up in them. Thats during the late winter months, I have always hunted near apple trees cause deer during the hunting season will casual through and pick at them and then go to better food source. I agree with Moosehunter with apples being candy. I have never seen a deer fill up on apples, unless its the only food source. With apples being near a field edge it would be a great spot to hang a stand as they are a draw and does will be passing through eating some candy and typicly theres a scrape in the vicinity. There where no acorns in the area I hunted whitetails since I was a boy. Hope this helps.
 
We don't have apple trees growing in the country, wild, so to speak but in Sept. and October when everybody's tree at home is full of apples I come to the rescue and take them from the tree, last year, I picked over 300 gallons of apples of of friends trees.........why?? Because deer absolutely love them, I don't use them for bait, just a little treat and if I out 100 pounds out in the pines in the evening, then 100 pounds is what they'll eat before morning, I'd hunt near those apple trees without a doubt. The raspberries won't do much but as soon as those apples start falling, then the deer they'll come running.
 
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