#1790491 - 02/15/10 03:58 PM
FOOD PLOTS
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backstraps
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Well lets beat another topic to death. What are your opinions and thoughts?
Pro's and Con's of them?
Do you consider them baiting, or feeding.
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#1790502 - 02/15/10 04:06 PM
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cecil30-30
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I would consider most of the food plots baiting..Because most of the time,people will plant stuff that doesn't grow naturally for the deer in the area or grow in such a concentrated area..Now if it was a food plot of nothing but native grasses n browse,then no,I wouldn't consider it baiting..
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#1790505 - 02/15/10 04:07 PM
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mathews338
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i consider it baiting but would love to have one anyways, but can't, we need all of our fields to support the number of cattle we have
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#1790509 - 02/15/10 04:09 PM
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Most everyone on here says that whatever TWRAs rules/regs are perfect for this state,so they must be good.I know they are good at my place,deer are really getting a great benefit from them right now,just got back from checkingh them out,they are mowed down.
I stated on here before though,I plant them for me really.I enjoy planting them,the benefit it gives to many forms of wildlife,but most importantly,even though I dont hunt when I can see them usually,I believe the prescense of the food plots gives me the oppurtunity to see more deer each time I hunt!
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#1790711 - 02/15/10 05:39 PM
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whistlinwingman
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Im for them. I consider a pile of corn baiting and a food plot feeding. That's just me. I see the argument that a food plot can be baiting but it just doesn't seem the same to me.
I got a question: If I planted corn or soybean in a field instead of bio-logic what is the difference? Is corn or soybean natural? No, they are planted by farmers for a reason. Whether it's for silage, ethanol, or whatever it's not a native grass. So if I plant something for deer or turkey does that mean I'm farming the area for a reason or baiting them?
Say Im hunting on a farm that had a tobacco patch on it. After the tobacco is harvested the farmer comes in and plants winter wheat to put nitrogen back in the soil. It just so happens that the deer find it and feed in it. Does that make it a "food plot?" It wasn't planted for deer or turkey but they are using it. Or say clover was planted in it. Is clover natural? I'd say it is. So is it still a "food plot"? My point is that if its planted and grows (no matter what it is) and you hunt over it then how is it baiting?
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#1790727 - 02/15/10 05:46 PM
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buckmaster 320
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I consider food plots baiting.
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#1790734 - 02/15/10 05:50 PM
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Wes Parrish
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I consider wildlife food plots NEITHER "baiting" nor "feeding".
I look at wildlife food plots to be more along the lines of habitat improvement.
Most wildlife food plots provide only a small percentage of a deer's daily/weekly/annual diet, but they provide yet another food item that can be of greater importance when other food items fail.
"Feeding" is pouring or scattering something out on the ground.
"Baiting" is hunting over that feed.
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#1790745 - 02/15/10 05:54 PM
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DUCK37101
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IMO planting natural sources of food like Oak trees, fruit trees, or other natural grasses as habitat improvement. A normal "habitat" would be anything that is already in a given habitat area. To me food plots that are not native to an area would not be good for habitat improvement.
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#1790754 - 02/15/10 05:57 PM
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buckmaster 320
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I consider wildlife food plots NEITHER "baiting" nor "feeding".
I look at wildlife food plots to be along the lines of habitat improvement.
"Feeding" is pouring or scattering something out on the ground.
"Baiting" is hunting over that feed.
"Baiting" is hunting over a food plot that has been made or poured out on the ground,either way,it is put out to lure deer in..
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#1790773 - 02/15/10 06:04 PM
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Wes Parrish
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"Baiting" is hunting over a food plot that has been made or poured out on the ground,either way,it is put out to lure deer in..
What if the deer are "already there"?
No "luring in".
My food plots are year-round plots, and do little to "lure" any deer beyond what deer are already in the area and would otherwise be lured to any other change in habitat, such as a clear-cut, a select-cut, or a field.
I have some hay fields that are a half mile from the nearest cultivated/fertilized food plots ---- yet I often see more deer in these hay fields. Some of these deer are identifable and have never been photographed in the nearby "food" plots. Why? All I can figure is relative location to a myriad of diverse habitat. For my purposes, the food plots are just another alternative habitat that SOME deer will SOMETIMES utilize. And like most forest openings and fields, usage tends to be more at night, particularly by the older deer.
As a hunting tool, most food plots are highly overrated (mainly by those selling food plot products and hunting shows).
As a source of additional deer forage, most food plots are highly overrated (mainly by those selling food plot products and hunting shows).
But there are huge differences in the value of benefits from a wildlife food plot vs. pouring out some corn from a bag, as well as much less disease and predation risks with food plots vs. corn feeders.
Food plots, corn feeders, mineral licks, deer scents, "deer corn" in a bag, etc. ---- all highly overrated mainly by those selling those products.
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