The plant-and-shoot method for food plots won't work forever. To get the best results from food plots, some hunters employ strategy to how they hunt them.

Plant it, and they will come. Just make sure you don't hunt it too much. If you do, or if you make some mistakes in how you hunt it, they may only come at night. Or they might stop coming at all.

Deer and food plots... the idea of turning dirt and sowing seed for deer has spread from state WMAs and big landowners to the logging decks of most every hunting club in the state.

Planting food plots and getting them to grow can be complicated enough, but as hunters get several years under their belts hunting food plots, they learn that strategy can also make a big difference in how many deer you see and kill on food plots.

The most common mistake is putting too much hunting pressure on and around food plots. All of a sudden you have a lush, green field that fills up with deer, and it is hard to resist the temptation to slap a stand on the edge of the plot ...
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