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The following article is from the Whitetail Journal:
Small Honeyhole Food Plots
by Derrek Sigler
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Food plots are all the rage these days, and they work. They work very well, in fact. We’ve all seen TV shows, magazine stories and ads showing us perfect, large food plots and all the cool implements, ATVs, tractors and what have you to perfectly prepare and maintain a plot. But you don’t have to have any of that to have a winning plot. In fact, you might want to skip all of that to make the one special plot that just might get you that buck of a lifetime this season.
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Yeah, I thought that might get your attention. Making a top-secret, hidden plot is a new technique a lot of hunters are latching on to. Honeyhole plots are small and tucked out of the way where no one expects to find them. They can be deer magnets, especially when the pressure is on.
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A honeyhole food plot is simply a small food plot in an area where you know deer are. They can be spots where you have always dreamed of hanging a stand, but didn’t.
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I started using them where I had a long strip of land that was basically a wooded ridge that ran across a section of my property. We had a field on one side with either corn or alfalfa in it annually. The backside of the property was kind of a bowl that had a 1- to 2-acre food plot on each end of it. There are several thick corridors of trees that the deer use to move across to the main field and as cover to get to a sanctuary area in a low-lying swamp on the edge of the property.
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I had always seen bigger bucks before season, but when it came time to hunt, they never came out in the fields. Trail cameras showed me they were still running the corridors, but were running late and had learned to avoid the main fields during the day. I had stands set up in those corridor areas and tried several times to get a shot, but never did. So I placed several small plots just off those corridors near some bedding areas. I wanted to give the deer something to forage on and give me a top-secret weapon to hunt from.<O</O
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Small Honeyhole Food Plots
by Derrek Sigler
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</OFood plots are all the rage these days, and they work. They work very well, in fact. We’ve all seen TV shows, magazine stories and ads showing us perfect, large food plots and all the cool implements, ATVs, tractors and what have you to perfectly prepare and maintain a plot. But you don’t have to have any of that to have a winning plot. In fact, you might want to skip all of that to make the one special plot that just might get you that buck of a lifetime this season.
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</OYeah, I thought that might get your attention. Making a top-secret, hidden plot is a new technique a lot of hunters are latching on to. Honeyhole plots are small and tucked out of the way where no one expects to find them. They can be deer magnets, especially when the pressure is on.
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</OA honeyhole food plot is simply a small food plot in an area where you know deer are. They can be spots where you have always dreamed of hanging a stand, but didn’t.
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</OI started using them where I had a long strip of land that was basically a wooded ridge that ran across a section of my property. We had a field on one side with either corn or alfalfa in it annually. The backside of the property was kind of a bowl that had a 1- to 2-acre food plot on each end of it. There are several thick corridors of trees that the deer use to move across to the main field and as cover to get to a sanctuary area in a low-lying swamp on the edge of the property.
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</OI had always seen bigger bucks before season, but when it came time to hunt, they never came out in the fields. Trail cameras showed me they were still running the corridors, but were running late and had learned to avoid the main fields during the day. I had stands set up in those corridor areas and tried several times to get a shot, but never did. So I placed several small plots just off those corridors near some bedding areas. I wanted to give the deer something to forage on and give me a top-secret weapon to hunt from.<O
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