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Okie4Life

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Plant a nice garden on the back side of the property, you'll draw every deer out of the acreage behind you!! Plus you'll have veggies to go with the main course!

I prefer onion, turnips radishes and of course okra
 

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Are you actually trying to draw them onto the 2.5 acres, or just within gun range of that? Either way, need something to lure them in. Myself, I don't buy anything that they have at Bass Pro, WalMart, or Cabelas that comes in a camo bag, or has an enticing name... i.e. c'mere deer, acorn rage, deer cane, etc. Go down to co-op and get you some sweet feed, corn, creep feed, cotton seed hulls, whatever. Get it in a man size 50lb bag, and not a 5lb city slicker sack. Feed is feed is feed. That deer doesn't care if it is deercane that costs $40 for 50lbs or if it is sweet feed that is $9/50 lbs. I'm sure there will be some differing opinions on that, just don't get caught up on the cool pictures of big deer on the sack. Brown 50 lb sack of real feed will pull in as much as the foo-foo stuff.

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If the deer are already on the land and using it why not just setup your stand near their trails and save yourself the time/expense of buying feeders?

Alternately you could make a few cheap PVC feeders to try to lure them near your stand placement.

I didn't have to much luck with turnips and radishes.. I grew about a half acre of them last year and never saw sign of a deer even in the field. But I did manage to grow some monsters!
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Yeah, the deer didn't do well on my turnips either. I don't think it got cold enough to make them sweet.
Like you I grew some monsters.
You do realize those will keep forever in the fridge, and a large bore pistol, or .17 hmr will make for some fun shooting, and its biodegradable.
How much better can that be??
Be a shooter and enviromentally friendly at the same time.
 

mr ed

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If the deer are already on the land and using it why not just setup your stand near their trails and save yourself the time/expense of buying feeders?

Alternately you could make a few cheap PVC feeders to try to lure them near your stand placement.

I didn't have to much luck with turnips and radishes.. I grew about a half acre of them last year and never saw sign of a deer even in the field. But I did manage to grow some monsters!
gkasper.smugmug.com_photos_i_wLTsftF_0_L_i_wLTsftF_L.jpg

His land may be like mine. The deer pass thru at 1am and you need the feeders to keep them there til sunrise.
 

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Here's a thought. If I were the OP I would go into the woods just at your property line and rake out about a 500 square foot area of leaves (or is it leafs; brain fart here) so you have bare dirt. Till up the dirt with a steel rake and plant a small food plot. Since you are close to the house I would run enough garden hose from the house and throw a sprinkler on it several a week to help it along. Would be a little patch of heaven for the deer and keep them common back. We did this on our lease without the hose and sprinkler and it worked great. Just a small patch of food plot in the middle of the woods.
 

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