Best mid-late season hunting plot?

[DLC]

What have you guys had the most success with for a mid to late season hunting food plot? What brand and type?

I have Whitetail Institutes clover planted but it seems that the deer have not hit it that good since early season.

[bowhunter1023]

Clover is more of a spring/summer/early season plot. I have some Buck Forage Oats planted right now that is getting used somewhat. I have not had much luck with deer using my plots like you want them to. I have tried brassicas and turnips and they ignore them. I hope to have better luck next year once they figure it out.

Winter wheat and turnips are what you want to plant for late season...

[Bawana]

The deer are looking for energy right now=corn and beans if they can find them, It's tough to compete with that, I have some oats and some biologic full draw that they are hitting, but not real good. Once you hit the first of the year I haven't found anything that works very good if there is corn or bean fields anywhere close to where you are.

[DLC]

The closest farm feild is alfalfa. The deer hit that but I need a East wind to hunt that, and we don't get a east wind that often. Plus they only hit it the last 10- 15 minutes of light left. I tried rye last year and it was a total bust. I just wanted to see what everyone from this area has had success with.

[DLC]

Okay, how about this approach. What has been the least successfull mid to late season plot in your experience??

[fork horn]

DLC,
I have done hunting land management consulting now for over 20 years in 8 states. I rarely put in a plot to hunt over.. It is nothing more than a pile of corn and apples at that point... A lot of times hunters will plant a plot hunt it wrong or disturb to much and deer will use it only at night or not at all.. I have deer in all of my clover plots on all of my properties right now.. It may have more to do with what kind of cover you have around you clover plots or they may just know by now you are hunting near by the plot..??

I also never plant just one kind of anything in my plots. Even something like corn for example. I plant corn, forage soy beans, winter peas and a oat / Rape Kale mix in my corn fields.. so there is always a variety of food in each plot. In my clover plots I will start with a Clover / Chicory / Vetch mix... then I go over them every August with a Oat / rape / Kale mix right on top of the clover.. and It works well for me all over the Midwest..
But my best advice is to not shoot deer in your plots.. don't hunt them like you would a bait pile.. sit back off the plots 75 yards or so this way they will not assciate the plot with danger.. I think you will be more constant on mature bucks this way... give it a try.. I will have a booth down in Columbus in march stop by and we can talk some more.

Tom Mesnard

I hope this helps a little ;)

[rgecko23]

I tell you what sunday we where walking around the woods looking for sheds and we kept spooking the doe around. No matter how many times we spooked them they would keep re-routing themselves to the corn and bean fields that are right beside eachother. they were bound and determined to get to those fields. So I would say sit around the fields and wait till dusk. They will come in for sure.

[ap0317ah]

I tell you what sunday we where walking around the woods looking for sheds and we kept spooking the doe around. No matter how many times we spooked them they would keep re-routing themselves to the corn and bean fields that are right beside eachother. they were bound and determined to get to those fields. So I would say sit around the fields and wait till dusk. They will come in for sure.

Yep you find there food sorce and you'll fill a tag this time of year.
10:00am til dark
Good luck
Tom