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Message: <blockquote data-quote="db-2" data-source="post: 146172" data-attributes="member: 4743">Great ideals and thoughts.Been planting food plots and feeding deer year around to various degrees since late 90s.  Often wonder if at times I might be doing more damage than good but I know it has been good for me. My bow these last few years has shot way more and bigger deer than my rifle ever seen in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.  And right now it is a bitch getting to the sites with more feed but a track side by side does go through all.  It just takes a few trips.  Need to be better prepare next year. (and I do not own the side by side but one is letting me use it in view of why I am using it, just make sure it is full of gas when I return)However it always seems to come to monies.  I have worked with farmers who really have little interest in deer or hunting.  But they have spots to work with.  A little conversation on my part, a little nudge by me and it has been a surprise what they are willing to let one do for the deer and I then get my reward of some nice bucks to watch and maybe harvest.  One after a couple of years let me put 5 acres of corn/soybeans in on his tillable land rent free.   Working together without needing monies for the rewards.  Just wish more would do this by first going out and visiting with some of the farmers/ranchers in the area.  You do not need to own the land to put plots up.My father planted about 3 acres of evergreens in the 50s about every four feet apart.  He made sure every tree lived.  Today when you go inside those trees there is no wind, little snow and deer as one said are about one for every tree in the storm.For me I now have about all I can handled until I retire and then do have a few more farmers I plan to visit with.  db- - - Updated - - -Yes gst it does not come easy without funds being spent.  But as you know the rewards are great and there are those who will mean mouth you for what you do.  They are the ones that sit on their ass but expect what I have to come to them.  Deer love the trees so one keeps replanting or lining trees with woven wire.  One site the snow is up to the cobs and I believe the deer have left that spot as they do every late winter.  But in the spring they will clean it up and maybe next winter will not be so bad and they will stay.I will keep at it; learn a lot and the rewards are just to great to stop.  db</blockquote>

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