Food Plots

[Alias Detective 1,179]

Anyone here maintain food plots for game?

 

I have 30 acres of land and 5 is a pasture. I, for 2 years, have been growing a clover food plot on the pasture. Anyone else into this?

[Fireballer 2,382]

Yup. Got a few food plots and game cameras.

[wiffleball 4,640]

I've got about a half acre of Snack Wells I use for fat chicks.

 

They try to bolt after I shoot them, but they can only make it about 14 steps before getting too winded and falling down.

[wiffleball 4,640]

Yup. Got a few food plots and game cameras.

Do you have those fun filters? You know so you can have like a deer with a duck face an elk with little kitty ears and such?

[cmh6476 752]

where are our bored animal rights activists?

[NorthernVike 2,080]

We planted pumpkins this year in the food plot. Should be able to keep them around longer into the season with them.

[Djgb13 2,338]

I don't personally but my uncles, cousins, and FIL do. Once I plan on buying a house I plan on getting a few acres for hunting

[Alias Detective 1,179]

Yup. Got a few food plots and game cameras.

What state are you in?

[Alias Detective 1,179]

We planted pumpkins this year in the food plot. Should be able to keep them around longer into the season with them.

What's them? Deer?

[Fireballer 2,382]

What state are you in?

Land is in NC

[NorthernVike 2,080]

What's them? Deer?

Yeah ?

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

I'm not a hunter, but I have no objection to it. Just no interest.

 

But game cameras seems a bit much. I mean, isn't much of the appeal supposed to be a "man vs. nature" into the wild sorta thing? Using your skill to stalk it down and all that?

 

I mean, why not just get a drone with a gun on it and hunt from your living room at that point.

[Djgb13 2,338]

I'm not a hunter, but I have no objection to it. Just no interest.

 

But game cameras seems a bit much. I mean, isn't much of the appeal supposed to be a "man vs. nature" into the wild sorta thing? Using your skill to stalk it down and all that?

 

I mean, why not just get a drone with a gun on it and hunt from your living room at that point.

Cause it's more fun to actually shoot the gun. That's the point. Plus, I like to eat the meat of the things I kill. Deer and duck are exceptionally good. Haven't killed a buffalo, moose, bear, etc.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Cause it's more fun to actually shoot the gun. That's the point. Plus, I like to eat the meat of the things I kill. Deer and duck are exceptionally good. Haven't killed a buffalo, moose, bear, etc.

I get the appeal of hunting. I've been a few times.

 

I'm just saying using cameras and tech to outwit a deer is kinda like playing pickup basketball at a special needs elementary school playground. Where's the challenge?

[Djgb13 2,338]

I get the appeal of hunting. I've been a few times.

 

I'm just saying using cameras and tech to outwit a deer is kinda like playing pickup basketball at a special needs elementary school playground. Where's the challenge?

Not sure cause I've never used them. Never had the desire to. I like being surprised and being on the edge of my seat. So I usually don't do things like that. It's also why I don't look at the Patriots schedule for this year cause I like to see it during football season

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Not sure cause I've never used them. Never had the desire to. I like being surprised and being on the edge of my seat. So I usually don't do things like that. It's also why I don't look at the Patriots schedule for this year cause I like to see it during football season

That's my point. Seems like using cameras and food plots and salt licks and whatnot turns it from hunting into farming basically. You're just harvesting at that point.

[Djgb13 2,338]

That's my point. Seems like using cameras and food plots and salt licks and whatnot turns it from hunting into farming basically. You're just harvesting at that point.

It's the same with people using dynamite for fishings. Laziness. However, there are some who just like to be on the cutting edge of everything like this

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

It's the same with people using dynamite for fishings. Laziness. However, there are some who just like to be on the cutting edge of everything like this

Well I gotta disagree. Dynamite fishing just sounds like good clean American fun.

 

We used to "fish" with a .357 magnum. Throw a handful of dog food in the catfish pond and blast away.

 

I miss redneck fun.

[wiffleball 4,640]

Not a hunter, but I think the primary use of game cams is to set them - and then check them to see if a certain area is on a game trail. The aminals, they done follow very specific trails and patterns when they forage. Once you determine that you're on a well-travelled path, THEN you set up, hunker down and wait to blow them to bits.

 

It's not that different from old school. Except back then, hunters could determine tracks, direction, depth, etc. to determine the same thing. Oh, and back then, other Injuns didn't sneak up to the cameras in the middle of the night and whip out their schlongs and laugh their fool heads off.

 

But yeah, I still don't like the idea of throwing corn out (automatically) every damn day for 365 days a year- then climbing into a bee and pee-infested treehouse to blow the shiit outta some poor unsuspecting deer.

 

It's like if you found a pizza on your front porch every morning and then one day, you bent over to pick it up - and some jerk blew a hole in your chest. "WTF man? You're a DIICK!" "Do I still get the pizza?"

 

That ain't huntin', that's WAITIN'.

[vuduchile 1,941]

I don't personally but my uncles, cousins, and FIL do. Once I plan on buying a house I plan on getting a few acres for hunting

A kitchen with enough counter space to pound out some pizza dough would also be a wise investment.

[Alias Detective 1,179]

That's my point. Seems like using cameras and food plots and salt licks and whatnot turns it from hunting into farming basically. You're just harvesting at that point.

I own 30 acres in the middle of thousands of acres. I put out 5 cameras throughout the 30 acres. I see 50 different deer each year, sometimes once and sometimes every day. I also hunt. I have yet to harvest a buck off my land in 5 years of hunting. The great outdoors are vast.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

I own 30 acres in the middle of thousands of acres. I put out 5 cameras throughout the 30 acres. I see 50 different deer each year, sometimes once and sometimes every day. I also hunt. I have yet to harvest a buck off my land in 5 years of hunting. The great outdoors are vast.

Ok. I freely admit I know d!ck about hunting except quietly drinking a beer while others do it a few times. So I'll accept that and shut my hole now.

[Fireballer 2,382]

I'm not a hunter, but I have no objection to it. Just no interest.

 

But game cameras seems a bit much. I mean, isn't much of the appeal supposed to be a "man vs. nature" into the wild sorta thing? Using your skill to stalk it down and all that?

 

I mean, why not just get a drone with a gun on it and hunt from your living room at that point.

I only use cameras to see what comes along. Theyre not used in the actual hunt

[Djgb13 2,338]

A kitchen with enough counter space to pound out some pizza dough would also be a wise investment.

Oh I'm sure it would. But seeing as how I'm just renting the house we are at now cause we are moving pretty soon just doesn't justify making adjustments to a house that isn't mine don't you think? Then again I'm sure a smart person like yourself would be able to understand that