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I've got the original homestead farm that I've hunted for the last couple years for Turkey. Lately we've been seeing a couple deer out in the soybean fields so I'm hoping next year to make a shot on one. My great uncle and I are building a box blind in the field we see them out moving in.
On to my question, what's the best thing to throw out for the deer over the winter to try and get some good trail camera pictures?
Also any tips for building a box blind?
Maybe a foodplot is an option. I have a 1/4 acre plot and deer hit it almost all year. It requires little maintenance and few visits-unlike putting out feed. The deer love the turnip and even dig them out through the snow.
Leave an acre or two of standing soya beans. Their #1 food source. You'll have the deer feeding all winter until the ground is ready to replant.
It can be expensive, but good old bags of corn have worked for me for years. only thing is you obviously get tons of pics of birds, squirrels, coons, rabbits etc.
Good luck
I'm totally blown away by the notion of deer in soya. Are You sure?Quote:
Originally Posted by RAMTECH
A couple bales of alpha will do the trick in the winter
You have got the number one attractant going IMO. Deer LOVE soybeans. Beans draw deer like magnets.Last yr I hunted a feild planted with beans. The deer were coming out pretty well every evening I hunted. well before dark. This yr its planted with clover where the beans were and corn after that. Have not seen a single deer come to the field in evening.They were coming well after dark.If the snow is not too deep they will likely scrape down to whatever they can find.Quote:
Originally Posted by RAMTECH
Can beans be bought dried? I mean to say that instead of dumping cracked or whole corn, can you use soy instead in a dried form?Quote:
Originally Posted by bcxextreme
Develop a plan that covers your hunting over the period of time you will have access to the property. I assume since you have been there a few years you will have continued access, in this regard by doing the below you could see results in:
Immediate: Put down corn
1-2 yrs: Start a food plot to include some annuals like cover, rye grass etc
2-3 yrs: Plant Apple trees
5-8 yrs: Plant Chinese Chestnut trees (not Horse Chestnut they are toxic)
10-15 yrs: Plant fast growing hybrid White Oaks
Standing beans, ( better than soya on the ground,they will Mold )means you plant and do nothing but watch and wait to shoot a deer. I left 2.5 acres on my farm for 20 years. The deer just bend over and eat,no energy lost in digging Once all the beans were harvest,all the deer will migrat to your beans and they know what they look like standing.The colder it gets the closer they will bed to the beans.It took him about 20 minutes to prepare, spray and plant round -up -ready -soya beans. You have two types early,and late which is important because they have mature time. Farmers are busy, but it sounded like you already grow soya beans. That's where you want to put your permanent ground blind. When I rented out my farm,I shared crop and it didn't cost anything. Later the farmer,who did the local area would zip in and only charged 200 bucks. pretty cheap?
I counted one day, 240 deer in different groups feed from day light to dark,( feed time 20 minutes / group ). It's funny a herd of 7 one year came across in the spring just after it was replanted. They stopped where it was and looked the field over for around 20-30 minutes,then went into the woods. After a while,they can out to the same spot and looked the field over for another long period of time.
I put in a permanent blind,just a box with a slanted roof and had a heater in the blind for sitting all day. Magazines and food kept me in the blind.I could watch from the kitchen or from the blind.
Thanks guys for the advice. The east side of the field had a generous amount of volunteer corn, which borders a water hole. however most of the deer we have seen have been up in the west side. Hoping to get the stand up in the next couple weeks.
gonna try putting a camera in the west side of the field with some rolled corn, if i get a couple pictures ill post them up in this thread
Fr winter feed, get 4 round bales of alphalfa hay(buy the fully wrapped ones to keep the rain and snow out) starting in December unwrap one bale each month. Deer will travel a long distance for the sweet smell of alphalpha .
standup if you want an attractor crop leave a field of soybeans and then watch it fill up with deer no jokinQuote:
Originally Posted by standup
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I am equally stumped... I've scouted soy bean fields and seen very little deer activity. Case in point was this past controlled hunt, standing soy crop and no activity. Never had any shortage of deer on the scene when the corn crop was planted!Quote:
Originally Posted by lazyman
I'm sorry but the tongue in cheek doesn't translate well in this form. We had beans beside our hunting area this year and I got close to 800 pictures of the deer in the area heading to the beans or feeding in them directly. I bet the farmer lost close to an acre of deer browsing the beans. Maybe it's because you're trying to hunt them so late? I saw most activity before the beans were ready to harvest (still high in moisture).Quote:
Originally Posted by Flash1
I farm 350 ac in sw Ontario. We lose approx 8-10 ac a year of soys and edibles to both deer and resident Cans
I can help out if needs be. What are friends forQuote:
Originally Posted by Jow
My farm never had trees,so I've been hunting over a 2.5 acre of standing beans for 20 years. I got a deer when I wanted,but got tired of 20 minute hunts.I trophy hunted for 7 years and never took the #1 buck but passed lots of nice bucks and learned a lot. Standing soya is not a secret, western outfitters with farms had been doing it for ever.
Late season when all the other crops are down,the does and bucks set up as close to the beans as possible. The colder it is the closer they bed to the beans. I took like 30 minutes for the farmer to plant my 2.5 acres. They never fail to bring in the deer. I watched the deer, daily from the kitchen all year around in the beans. One day, I counted over 240 deer in the beans before a big storm.They usually only feed for 20 minutes and leave. It was pretty cool to see 18 deer feeding and a herd of 24 join them. Their's a reason my plot was 40 yards wide,lol.
Hunt the wrong wind and they won't come out.
Hence the term "bean field" gun. Calibers beloved for their ability to reach out over BWHAT FIELDS. Holy man that came and. Oh never mindQuote:
Originally Posted by Greenhorn
Good to know this being a new hunter. Shame on the people in here that assume everyone SHOULD know as much as them and reinventing the wheel bla bla bla you know who you are no need for names. Had I not read between the sarcasm I would have been mislead. Thanks to those who were honest and appealing.