Deer season

[Thomas]

Hope he hangs around.

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:thumbsup: Whatever your doing keep it up.

 

[Grumpycat]

 

[BRMyers]

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"I believe I can fly"

 

[Otto Syracuse]

Looking forward to deer season too! Planted a food plot last night of winter peas, clover and darken radish. Should be ready for our archery season and through the winter. Also will be planting winter rye later today.

 

[wwdiii]

Planting food plots and trail cams are my favorite part of hunting. My food plots are small even though our hunting area is 5000 acres. Its owned by a Timber company, we got lots of trees. We are limited on areas to plant but can plant in shooting lanes and etc.

I enjoy taking my tractor to the hunting lease and brush hog shooting lane and doing work.

The end of may I planted a couple small patches of Red Ripper Cowpeas. Even though I forgot to buy Fertilizer they came up pretty good. Lucky enough to have a semi wet Summer in East Texas.

Hope to get out of the big city and back to my place in the country next weekend. I need to make a bracket to mount a tool box on my tractor. Also need to make a mount to carry my chainsaw. Also plant to try to get to my hunting lease and plant more food plots for the fall.

Thanks, Billy

 

[atsah]

Why are the deer in the south so small?

The deer here in Maine are big deer, if one had a rack like the pictures here it would be 275lbs.. It's a mystery to me why the deer aren't bigger in the south, you would think with easier winters they would be able to eat grass longer and keep summer weight longer into winter..IDK..

 

[AWSubie]

Deer don’t eat grass. They eat forbs and mast. I can only speak for the south western region and because this region does not get as much rain the summer can be a challenge for deer to find adequate nourishment.

 

[Shaneard]

Why are the deer in the south so small?

The deer here in Maine are big deer, if one had a rack like the pictures here it would be 275lbs.. It's a mystery to me why the deer aren't bigger in the south, you would think with easier winters they would be able to eat grass longer and keep summer weight longer into winter..IDK..

Big deer here in central N.C. don’t get much over 200 pounds. This one scored 165 1/8 and weighed 195 pounds. He lacked 1” of being the state record non typical with a bow at the time. I shot him with a compound bow in 2003 at 10 yards 12’ up a tree.

I’m guessing they don’t pack on as much fat as up north because our winters aren’t as harsh.

 

[k0ua]

I think it is all about the food supply. Our forrest deer here in Southwest Missouri is fairly small as a rule while in upstate Missouri in Farm country where there are lots of corn crops to eat they are generally much larger.

 

[atsah]

Deer don’t eat grass. They eat forbs and mast. I can only speak for the south western region and because this region does not get as much rain the summer can be a challenge for deer to find adequate nourishment.

I figured they ate grass because every evening I see a herd of them in a field of timothy grass with their heads down in it..

 

[atsah]

I think it is all about the food supply. Our forrest deer here in Southwest Missouri is fairly small as a rule while in upstate Missouri in Farm country where there are lots of corn crops to eat they are generally much larger.

That makes sense..

 

[ovrszd]

I think it is all about the food supply. Our forrest deer here in Southwest Missouri is fairly small as a rule while in upstate Missouri in Farm country where there are lots of corn crops to eat they are generally much larger.

Yep. The trail cam pic posted would be considered a malnutritioned deer up here.

 

[Shaneard]

More deer pics.

 

[Thomas]

More deer pics.

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He'll make you start day dreaming and drooling. :thumbsup:

 

[wwdiii]

I spent the better part of the day yesterday on my tractor planting a couple of plots. Planted shooting lanes, both of them 10-15 yards wide, 100 yards long give or take.

I planted part if Soy beans, the rest in cowpeas. I hope it rains. Never planted soy beans before.

I have another plot in our other section I planted in late May, Red Ripper Cowpeads, about an acre, maybe more all together. They came up good, but haven't check on them in a while. I will next weekend. They may be ate down and need to be replanted. I plan to buy more seeds, red ripper peas do well in Sandy soil, which we have in East Texas.

 

[3Ts]

Why are the deer in the south so small?

The deer here in Maine are big deer, if one had a rack like the pictures here it would be 275lbs.. It's a mystery to me why the deer aren't bigger in the south, you would think with easier winters they would be able to eat grass longer and keep summer weight longer into winter..IDK..

From: White-tailed deer - Wikipedia
The white-tailed deer is highly variable in size, generally following Bergmann's rule that the average size is larger farther away from the Equator. North American male deer (also known as a buck) usually weigh 68 to 136 kg (150 to 300 lb),[9] but mature bucks over 180 kg (400 lb) have been recorded in the northernmost reaches of their native range, specifically, Minnesota and Ontario.

The Florida Key deer are quite small. Also from wikipedia: Key deer - Wikipedia
This deer can be recognized by its characteristic size, smaller than all other white-tailed deer. Adult males (known as bucks) usually weigh 25-34 kg (55-75 lb) and stand about 76 cm (30 in) tall at the shoulder.

IDK, but I've heard that it has more to do with body heat. In cold climates stocky builds retain heat better than skinny ones, in hot climates, skinny ones can shed heat better than stocky ones.

 

[atsah]

From: White-tailed deer - Wikipedia
The white-tailed deer is highly variable in size, generally following Bergmann's rule that the average size is larger farther away from the Equator. North American male deer (also known as a buck) usually weigh 68 to 136 kg (150 to 300 lb),[9] but mature bucks over 180 kg (400 lb) have been recorded in the northernmost reaches of their native range, specifically, Minnesota and Ontario.

The Florida Key deer are quite small. Also from wikipedia: Key deer - Wikipedia
This deer can be recognized by its characteristic size, smaller than all other white-tailed deer. Adult males (known as bucks) usually weigh 25-34 kg (55-75 lb) and stand about 76 cm (30 in) tall at the shoulder.

IDK, but I've heard that it has more to do with body heat. In cold climates stocky builds retain heat better than skinny ones, in hot climates, skinny ones can shed heat better than stocky ones.

Sounds about right..

 

[EddieWalker]

Great pics of some really nice bucks. I've cut and sprayed my food plot, but wont do anything else until the heat breaks and we get some rain. It's a dust bowl right now and it's up to Mother Nature on when things get better.

 

[Shaneard]

I planted 50 lbs of buckwheat Saturday. Hope it does good, never tried it before.