Hello everyone , this is my first time posting here I am usually a lurker! Im from Michigan and I run a charter salmon buisness on Lk MI so anyone here looking to kill some big salmon this summer hit me up. Will trade trips fishing on 31 Tiara for deer hunting adventures! Anyway I am leaving today for Mo muzzelloading, The question I have is that the prop I will be hunting does not have alot of timber and the only food is cut bean fields, do the deer keep using the been fields even with the snow on them and being that it was cut awhile ago? I need help this is wy different than hunting a cedar swamp in MI
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They will tear up them beans all winter long as long as there is still food in the field. Do a quick drive around surrounding roads to determine any other food sources. Winter food in MO is crops, acorns, honey suckle, locust tree seed pods, and typical browse like poisin ivy. I would hunt food sources in the afternoons and hunt opposite in mornings, hunt the travel corridor to where you belive they are bedding. If you have no clue, experiment to see where they are traveling in the morning. Sometimes hunting new land is hard and you might have to sacrifice a morning hunt to see deer's travel habits. Good luck and welcome to the site. Since you dojn't have a footbal team this yr, how bout cheering for them Badgers!!!! Go Big RED
Thank you guys for any help! I run my trips out of Frankfurt, just south of Travers city. They still use the bean fields even though they look like nothing huh? A yeah I really dont want to talk about football or the lack of it! This MO hunting is way diff than what im used to thats for sure.
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Welcome to MWT.
Near Traverse City... ya get to any Griffins games? :wave: I'll be in Deeeetroit in April catching a Wings game.:cheers:
The deer will be in the cut bean fields for sure, looks like a barren waste land from a distance.. but there's plenty of grub for them.
Nevermind football.... GO WINGS.
Near Traverse City... ya get to any Griffins games? :wave: I'll be in Deeeetroit in April catching a Wings game.:cheers:
The deer will be in the cut bean fields for sure, looks like a barren waste land from a distance.. but there's plenty of grub for them.
Nevermind football.... GO WINGS.
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[rquote=1515458&tid=105659&author=powertrip] They still use the bean fields even though they look like nothing huh? [/rquote]
Like I said there has to be food left. If you walk in a cut bean field you would be amazed at the amount of beans on the ground. And, remember those little beans/pods take a long time to eat. So, they feed in the fields for a long time. Heck an white oak acorn had 3 times as much mass as a bean pod(by weight).
But if your field has been cut since Sept or Oct it might be a different story. Deer will gravitate to the freshest fields. Either way, fields are edges and deer are creatures of the edge. You'll see deer!!
Like I said there has to be food left. If you walk in a cut bean field you would be amazed at the amount of beans on the ground. And, remember those little beans/pods take a long time to eat. So, they feed in the fields for a long time. Heck an white oak acorn had 3 times as much mass as a bean pod(by weight).
But if your field has been cut since Sept or Oct it might be a different story. Deer will gravitate to the freshest fields. Either way, fields are edges and deer are creatures of the edge. You'll see deer!!
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