CajunSqueal16

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Rape did not take last year because the deer ate it too fast.

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For some reason they don't hit our brassicas (rape) until they mature. We usually mix them with clover, oats, and wheat. I guess they hit the cereal grains hard on germination and then move to the brassicas. North of the Deep South, they often don't hit brassicas until it gets really cold. The first couple of frosts turn all the starch in the leaf into glucose and then the deer really hit it. I've seen them digging bulbs up out of the ground. They don't seem to react the same way down here. They really eat the tops but they don't seem to like the bulbs.

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The Evolved Plot mixers Alfalfa & Chicory are specially selected varieties with deep tap roots (over a foot long) making them very drought resistant.

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Alfalfa usually does really bad in the Deep South. I would double check on that variety before you plant. It may be a genetically enhanced alfalfa that does better down here, I don't know. That's just the rule of thumb. Chicory does great.

I'm more excited about the "extended falconry season."

Can you imagine sending a falcon from the blind after cripples?

I would bush hog in the middle and leave a tractor width or so of stuff along the edges of the woods, don't cut it. Deer really like a transitional edge cover (sort of a medium between big trees/woods and wide open field. It makes the deer feel much more comfortable with that strip of edge cover. It improves daylight usage in your field, even with mature bucks.

As far as planting, it depends on your area and soil composition. I would say for fall/winter planting, use a blend of clover, cereal grain and brassica. For the clover, you can either go annual or perennial; I recommend a mix of both. Cereal grains - go with oats and winter wheat. Brassicas can be any type of forage rape, turnips, etc. Look online and in the hunting stores for some pre-mixed blends and see what they've got in them. A mix like that will carry you from September-May. The clover might last through the heat of the next summer if there's plenty of rain, but it won't produce alot this time of year.

BEARMANPIG?!?!

Please oh please don't rain out my hunt.

Neck puncture wounds = Chubacabra

Duh. It's science.

Never heard the Gretchen version before. Wow. Thanks for that.

I've also heard him perform it with Kelly Clarkson and Leann Rimes.

OLE GEAUXT:

This is an off topic question, but is the car in your sig pic parked in somebody's front yard on Hwy 61 in St. Francisville??

Just saw on another thread that the buck was killed at Cash Bayou.