How To Create A Kill Plot
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- Опубліковано 25 кві 2022
- A kill plot food plot can be a great addition to your land. However, most food plots should never be hunted with a bow. Here is the WHY, HOW and WHERE for creating a highly effective kill plot on your land to bowhunt over, this Fall.
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Great pointers for every hunter to understand.
Thanks James...hopefully it helps some folks out for hunting season! Really appreciate you watching!
Thanks Jeff- I noticed some of your example plans have food plots pretty close to home/cabin driveways. You screen them with switch but I imagine the deer can still hear a car driving in. that doesn't spook them?
I'd love to hear more about this, too!
I’ve had the same question
Doesn't bother them to bad as long as the vehicle keeps rolling by.
Watched deer keeping eye out for vehicles many times from different places over the years. Lead does are a little cautious, but not the ones that follow. Spotted nice buck bedded in large cornfield, middle of day on neighbors property and about 3oclock truck drove within 30yrds of him and dropped off a guy at a stand along creek,drove past again on way to road..then went back to stand 20minutes later and back out
(Must of forgot something)
The buck just laid his head down and waited for truck to pass,then stretched neck up afterwards to make sure it keeped going.
Awsome to watch with binoculars from my barn. Neighbors not real stealthy.
Thank you so much ! Can't wait 🦌
Have fun David!
Not clear on planting timing for 1/2 and 1/2 greens and brassica. I found article on your website that said plant at same time. But more recently videos saying brassica and greens a few weeks apart. How do you do that if planting into buckwheat. Do I need to plant buckwheat staggered too? Thanks and just can’t get enough of you great content. So appreciated.
Great video Jeff, really enjoy seeing your setups and applying them to my farm. Getting ready to build an elevated blind on skids and cut a tunnel to access in the next few months
great video Jeff. I really enjoy seeing the country layout. It helps us develop our hunting strategies on our 106 acre property.
Great video TY ! First year planting tillage radish... do they eat the radish root or just greens ?
Hi David! We find they eat the radish before purple top turnips...often before some of the other greens. Big fan of those all around!
Not living in a location with any ag fields other then hay fields would you still run a small plot like this?
Yes definitely if it is on the way to a much larger food source. I wouldn't ev n use a small kill plot if ag was the only nearby food source as it isn't a good enough draw for the majority of the season.
Thanks for the great video, Jeff!
Love seeing an inside look at one of your most 'successful' plots. Keep the good info coming! You're a legend!
Thanks a lot Drew, I really hope it helps!!
Jeff
I watch every one of your videos and try to absorb the vast knowledge that you provide I've watched other people's videos on travel corridor trails for deer do you personally recommend Leaf blowing out down to the dirt the deer travel corridor trail
I know this is off topic for this particular video thank you in advance for your answer
Hi Gary...first off thanks a lot for watching!
I do not recommend lead blowing in any way. It is a very low priority if any at all. That is purely a MI thing, largely born because some of the habitat folks wait until early Nov to hunt because they have a difficult time hunting their land during the early season.
Blowing leaves off during the off season helps a little...some times, in some circumstances. BUT, you would NEVER want to blow leaves off in mid to late October on your land. Or at least if you are my neighbor...it's a great idea 😁 Again, some look at it they will wait until early Nov to hunt anyways so it's a week or 2 after they blow leaves, but even then if I'm their neighbor...I'm shooting their target buck after they blow the leaves off 😊 Just so many more important priorities to do they no one really should have time left over to do something like that.
I kind of thought that was unnatural and it would be a little bit OCD thank you for your comment back I've got a request out to Dylan to call me I wanted them out this year however it just did not work out for me but I definitely am trying to get him to set up early January so that he can see all the fresh signs and make the best determination for my land thank you again for all the knowledge and efforts that you put out for all of us guys that are having success and the ones that are desperately trying to have success can't wait to hear from Dylan
How critical is adding 2-4D to the second spraying of switchgrass? Thank you for all you do!
Hi Bret...not critical but a nice advantage! There are many glyphosate resistant broadleaf weeds that 2-4D will kill. However, you don't want to spray too close to switchgrass germination time (within 2 to 4 weeks) or it will kill the switchgrass.
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Got a question about Cedars. I hunt a 50 acre parcel. It’s about 85% cedar with autumn olive, and sumac pockets mixed in. And hardwoods on the ridge tops. It’s very thick, my dad feels like we need to clear a lot because the deer can get by you with out ever seeing them. I feel like our food plots if we hunt it right will bring them in the open.
Hi Jordan! Killing 1/4 acre...1/8th acre...1/10th of an acre openings in the cedar by cutting, spraying clearing can be a great way just to make the area more attractive in general. You want good early auccessional growth to take place in those pockets to iwffer diversity. Try to give it a natural look. Some of those might make deer more visible and then clearing a deer trail thru it all to comment bedding to food sets up stand locations beautifully in that thick cover
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 okay that makes a lot of sense. Thank you! We will have to give that a try
Thanks Jeff! I had a question about planting Switch grass, I sprayed 24d and gly on the palace I wanted to plant Switch, I got a good kill so I put the seed down but was worried about all the thatch preventing it from growth. What did I miss? Thanks !
Hi Isaac! There still should be a lot of time for rain to knock it onto the soil. Taking a kick at the ground and seeing if soil is opened up immediately is a good sign you will be fine. Hopefully you Simazined first? Also the time to put switch down is long before the 2-4D and Gly combo, just because you want to give the seed time to work onto the soil thru repeated wind and rains
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Ahh, ok thanks! Gotta make mistakes to learn! 👍
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@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 do screen plots make big difference? We have ansament I get 10 guy walking down driveway and driving in back by my plot
@@jonathansaxon2883 Deer will definitely feel more secure with a screen on your food plot.
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@Number 1 Fan I watched like a hawk, updated every few seconds (10) and this dude beats me by THREE MINUTES??!?? He must have the secret sauce!!!
Good morning!! When you say brassicas next to grains, do you mean parallel? Or one on each end of the yellow brick road? Another question.. when you define your plots do you step it out to measure the acreage/size? Thank you Jesus! Thank you Fellas!
Cheers!
Good morning Jeff, wondering in your opinion if it's too late in the year to spray simazine in south central Wisconsin? I was able to get my switchgrass down on bare soil this past weekend and I'm really not seeing a lot of weed growth at this point.
I have mixed Ag here in Wisconsin. My question is, do you plant your typical no till seed blends (½ brassica and ½ green forage) in your hunting plots as well? What would you plant if the plot is shaded?
Hi Drew! There are no real, quality blends that you can plant in shadey plots...so I never plant in too much shade.
In my small hunting plots I plant the same green blends...If they are too small I would go with clover or rye...1/10th of an acre or less.
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Awesome! TYSM!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Could one choose to open up the canopy for a shadey plot if need be? Not saying for this year, but in the future. Proly want to save my sawing for winter.
For what its worth... i saw now and plant for fall
How far away should hunting plots be from holding plots?
Hi Jeff, I frost seeded switchgrass onto pine needles. After I finished, I began worrying the pine needles will shade out the switch. Suggestions?
I have another question and I cannot remember what you said about the percentage of glyfocate you look for when I purchase
How long does your transplant cedar tree last?
Whenever I plant switch for a screen and make a small trail through it the deer start using it. This happens no matter the direction direction of access.
What are your thoughts about L food plots heading toward ag field?
Hi Jeremy! There is no certain shape that applies...it depends on the lay of the land snd habitat. BUT...I am a huge fan of food plots in the way to ag in general. All of mine are on the way to ag in WI and MN
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 thank you helps me out for my next one
Hey suzie and I will take two tickets
Thanks for an inside look at what your personal spots look like. You break it down and make it really easy. I wish I could build a similar kill plot where I hunt, but the family has cattle on it.
Thanks again, Jeff!
Time are very welcome and man, i wish you could too! The cattle do make it tough
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 yes they do! Any tips? I currently hunt ambush points where the natural terrain funnels deer to the edges of cattle pastures with good success. The deer get mostly clover and fescue there which stays green through the rut in southern MO. I have very little success in December and January.
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Hope you like it David!
First!
Congrats
Congrats Drew 😁
You are a ninja! Nice work-👍
Don't you hate it when the deer start using your access routes? LOL