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Post by bullfrog on Aug 6, 2023 15:54:51 GMT -5
Classified.
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Post by bullfrog on Aug 6, 2023 15:58:38 GMT -5
Shhhhhh.
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Post by 4ward on Aug 6, 2023 16:13:12 GMT -5
The west edge of the managed pines, north and south of 346 holds some good deer. It’s always been a early game out there though . Bow season or bust mostly. If you ever rejoin, I’ll spill my guts to you. I should probably shut up now though 😉
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Post by Crkr 23 on Aug 6, 2023 16:16:01 GMT -5
Yeah, we need to move this to the Spot Burner section.🤔🤔🤔
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Post by bullfrog on Aug 6, 2023 16:51:04 GMT -5
Yeah, we need to move this to the Spot Burner section.🤔🤔🤔 I don’t really care. I’ll likely never hunt there again. I live 2 hours away now and probably am never going back. I’ll tell someone all they want to know about Grove Park, Lochloosa, or the east side of the Ocklawaha in the ONF. Gulf Hammock has changed too much or else I’d spill the beans about there too. I’ll won’t talk much about the Osceola or anything in within 30 minutes of home. If I ever leave and retreat further into the wild (South Georgia), I’ll tell all about where I am now.
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Post by 4ward on Aug 6, 2023 17:05:27 GMT -5
I like to share too bullfrog, this area IS MY YARD though. Hence the apprehension.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Aug 6, 2023 17:13:17 GMT -5
I was speaking entirely in jest, sorry if anyone was offended.
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Post by bullfrog on Aug 6, 2023 17:27:50 GMT -5
I like to share too bullfrog, this area IS MY YARD though. Hence the apprehension. That’s a reasonable concern. Based upon that I went back and edited my posts.
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Post by 4ward on Aug 6, 2023 17:44:24 GMT -5
I read your edits and spit beer out of my nose. No one is offended Crkr, all is well.
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Post by pinman on Aug 6, 2023 18:40:51 GMT -5
All right guys I'm getting to the end of my small knowledge of deer food sources so I saved the best for last. It's not really a great food source because it doesn't have enough protein to sustain deer so I would call it an attractant. It's been the death of many deer, mostly does and yearling bucks. It also was been the ruin of some pretty good hunters, they seem get as drawn to this food source as the deer are. They become sitters and not so much hunters and begin to believe the only way to kill deer is over this food source. This food source is primarily found on private land, in fact if you find it on public my advice is "run". When you get a safe distance from the food source call the GW, he'll appreciate it. I was going to post something similar early on in this thread but the thread became a great source of knowledge and information that I didnt want to booger it up.....
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Post by Crkr 23 on Aug 6, 2023 19:17:56 GMT -5
The Bradford Pear, it's a popular invasive landscape plant. I've never came across one in the woods in Florida but have in Illinois. I imagine they are from old abandoned homesteads. The first one I saw in Illinois, the ground around it was stomped down with deer tracks and several scrapes under the tree. We originally thought it was a crabapple but finally figured out the Bradford Pear. We still wrongly call it the Crabapple Stand. Attachments:
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Post by ben10 on Oct 5, 2023 19:30:32 GMT -5
Water hickory? Does anyone have any knowledge of deer using this as a food source? I stumbled upon some dropping nuts the other day and had me curious, I set a camera and it’s unproductive.
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Post by swampdog on Oct 5, 2023 19:37:55 GMT -5
I believe hickory nuts are too hard to crack and too big to swallow. I guess they might eat those cracked open by automobiles if available.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Oct 5, 2023 19:58:39 GMT -5
Hogs can crack and eat them but I believe they're a little hard for deer. I've read that deer will eat the smaller pig nut hickory but usually as a last resort.
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Post by ben10 on Oct 5, 2023 20:03:22 GMT -5
Hogs can crack and eat them but I believe they're a little hard for deer. I've read that deer will eat the smaller pig nut hickory but usually as a last resort. The ones that were dropping were a little bigger than an acorn and soft. I squeezed a green one open and it popped like a pimple. It was significantly smaller than all the hickory’s I’ve seen before.
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