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Mike Belt

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I have a pasture I like to hunt but it's been grown up so much over the last 4 years that you can't see the deer. They haven't been clipping it. They were burning it off today. How long does it generally take before anything starts sprouting back? It should be good for rifle.
 
Sprouts about like a food plot. Maybe a week or two longer. I didn't time what i burned but it came back quick. There will be some tasty treats in that for sure.
 
It will come back quick, definitely in time for the rut or late season. I bet the turkeys are all over it
 
One of the best seasons I have had was in a section of recently burned woods


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it doesnt take long at all if it was a cool burn. we had our farm in the wildlife program and they did a controlled burn every 5 years. the deer will still use it even if there is a little growth, to deer it acts kinda like a mineral lick.
 
Not a answer to your original question but a funny story none the less. My sister in law and a couple friends left a camp fire burning on our farm one night. I got in my stand the next morning. The smell of smoke was so strong I couldn't breathe. At the first crack of light I thought there was heavy fogg on. As daylight began to set in I realized it was a cloud of smoke. The camp fire had got out and burnt about 20 acres of under growth and leafs through the timber over the night. It had came with in 20 yards of the wooden ladder stand I was hunting out of from behind. As I sat there in complete shock as at the time I had no idea that anyone had been on the farm the night before. I couldn't help to begin to stomp and snort (after not seeing flames) as I figured the morning hunt was ruined after waiting the week to get in my honey hole stand Saturday morning. Not including the 3:00 am wake up, drive and walk to stand. Just before I climbed down to start the investigation. 3 deer walk out of the smoke into the field edge. I sat back down and continued to see deer all morning long through a cloud of smoke. Lol . On the up side I haf a great scent cover that morning!
 
southernhunter":3fcw3r48 said:
Not a answer to your original question but a funny story none the less. My sister in law and a couple friends left a camp fire burning on our farm one night. I got in my stand the next morning. The smell of smoke was so strong I couldn't breathe. At the first crack of light I thought there was heavy fogg on. As daylight began to set in I realized it was a cloud of smoke. The camp fire had got out and burnt about 20 acres of under growth and leafs through the timber over the night. It had came with in 20 yards of the wooden ladder stand I was hunting out of from behind. As I sat there in complete shock as at the time I had no idea that anyone had been on the farm the night before. I couldn't help to begin to stomp and snort (after not seeing flames) as I figured the morning hunt was ruined after waiting the week to get in my honey hole stand Saturday morning. Not including the 3:00 am wake up, drive and walk to stand. Just before I climbed down to start the investigation. 3 deer walk out of the smoke into the field edge. I sat back down and continued to see deer all morning long through a cloud of smoke. Lol . On the up side I haf a great scent cover that morning!

they say native Americans used to burn woods to attract deer during their hunts.
 

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