Corn Deer
Food availability is not an issue for the central mid-west deer at anytime during the year. Spring starts with the alfalfa and clover greening up, followed by beans then milo with green hay pastures having been cut for new growth at least twice if not three times during this spring-summer period. Corn comes in last and is cut through December. Fall sees the planting of wheat that greens up to four inches and lasts through the winter with the minimal snowfall we receive. White acorns abound throughout. The deer are well fed and have plenty of protein for muscle, starch for fat and calcium from the widely spread cattle minerals. On snowfall, how much snow has been seen in any of these photos? Wide rack
Several new hunters have told us that some recommended properties
"...don't have enough trees..." Remember we are hunting deer,
not trees and deer are not limited to large woods, or for that matter clusters
of small woodlots especially in the central mid-west. The bottom line is to get out on the land and hunt your
own deer with an open mind as deer are pervasive in their habitat selection so
all habitat deserves a scouting. Al
A recent and not so recent deer pictures from trophies harvested off of Association leases.
Non Typical
The half of the rack on the ground has antlers growing in three directions. No guides, no professional hunters, just good deer hunters with access to game productive habitat in historically productive areas. |
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This picture was greatly enlarged from the original photo, hence its
graininess.
