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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5441617" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>I will say this... part of me hopes for zero rain for another month...</p><p></p><p>While I will have wasted $1200 in seed alone ( not counting diesel and wear / tear on equipment), the very best year for success on mature bucks I've ever had was 5 or 6 years ago when we had the incredible drought ( the same fall Gatlinburg burned).</p><p></p><p>Zero food plots available, zero acorns. I had a smidgen of green on my native browse and pastures cattle had been rotated out of end of Aug. And most importantly, I had some of the only available water sources around ( ponds half full where cattle had been rotated out of).</p><p></p><p>We hunted ponds that fall... doe groups hit them twice a day, and bucks came to ponds to check for does. We killed a 6.5, 5.5, and two 4.5yos that fall, most who shifted onto us fron neighboring properties that didn't have water or feed.</p><p></p><p>Hate to give this tip away, but I'd be thinking HARD about building a water source on your hunting ground right now and keeping it filled up however you can... gonna be money come Nov if the drought continues.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5441617, member: 2805"] I will say this... part of me hopes for zero rain for another month... While I will have wasted $1200 in seed alone ( not counting diesel and wear / tear on equipment), the very best year for success on mature bucks I've ever had was 5 or 6 years ago when we had the incredible drought ( the same fall Gatlinburg burned). Zero food plots available, zero acorns. I had a smidgen of green on my native browse and pastures cattle had been rotated out of end of Aug. And most importantly, I had some of the only available water sources around ( ponds half full where cattle had been rotated out of). We hunted ponds that fall... doe groups hit them twice a day, and bucks came to ponds to check for does. We killed a 6.5, 5.5, and two 4.5yos that fall, most who shifted onto us fron neighboring properties that didn't have water or feed. Hate to give this tip away, but I'd be thinking HARD about building a water source on your hunting ground right now and keeping it filled up however you can... gonna be money come Nov if the drought continues. [/QUOTE]
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