How long?

[TRIGGER]

Been in my house for three years and hunted and had trail cams up since I bought the place and have never seen many deer at all around here. There is no food source. Recently I purchased twenty acres behind me so now it's mine to do what I want. Plan on doing a couple food plots 3-5 acre a piece next year. (Do I still have time this year?) how long will it take to pull deer from other properties over to mine? Are food plots alone enough?

 

[BSK]

Food plots will draw deer immediately. But don't be surprised if most of the trail-cam pictures of those deer are at night. Good-quality cover, and more importantly sanctuary cover, is far more of a daylight draw. And that only takes the first year it is cover AND sanctuary to draw deer, especially during the high-pressure gun season. Deer quickly find the "holes" in our hunting pressure. In radio and GPS-colar studies in super high-hunting pressure areas of PA, it only took 48 hours for deer to shift into unhunted areas.