The deer aren't just passing by quickly on a nearby trail. They are out in the wide open hanging around eating and just being natural. This gives you plenty of time to get your camera on the deer and get focused. It also allows you extra time to study the animal before deciding whether or not to harvest it. Food plots are a great addition for people who want to better manage their property and be selective about the deer they harvest, because they allow you to better observe your herd before making a hasty decision.
Photo 2 is of my son Kyle Van Hoveln's first Muzzleloader buck. This was a 6 year old, 155" 14 point buck that we had filmed several times over the past couple of years in and around our food plots. On this night, we were hunting a staging area just inside the woods from our 2 acre PowerPlant field. I harvested a mature doe with a pistol and in less than 10 seconds after shooting her, my son saw this brute walk right under our stand and he was able to make a perfect shot with his muzzleloader.
This hunt will always be a special one for me because not only did I shoot my first deer with a pistol, and my son shot his first Buck with a muzzleloader, but all this happened to fall on my birthday, thus giving me the best birthday present a Father could ask for.
These deer are pictured in a 4 year old patch of Alfa Rack in Mid November in Illinois. This plot has produced tons of forage for my deer over the years. I have really got my money's worth from this planting, not to mention the deer we have harvested in and around these plots.
This hunt will always be a special one for me because not only did I shoot my first deer with a pistol, and my son shot his first Buck with a muzzleloader, but all this happened to fall on my birthday, thus giving me the best birthday present a Father could ask for.
These deer are pictured in a 4 year old patch of Alfa Rack in Mid November in Illinois. This plot has produced tons of forage for my deer over the years. I have really got my money's worth from this planting, not to mention the deer we have harvested in and around these plots.
Photo 3 shows my good friend and co-owner of one of my farms Mike Kemp. This is Mike's muzzleloader kill from last year, a 155" 11 pointer. Mike is no stranger to big bucks and food plots, as he manages to tag at least one every year from his same stand overlooking a field of PowerPlant. By the time the Illinois guns season rolls around the deer on our farms have almost mowed off our PowerPlant to the ground, but as you can see in some of our videos, the deer still come out to eat the very last bits of plants that are left before the winter hits. This field of PowerPlant has always been a consistent producer of big bucks for us every season.
Thank you Whitetail Institute for taking the time to research what WHITETAIL deer really like to eat and what is nutritious for them as well.
I would encourage anyone who has some type of tillable ground available to them to plant a food plot from the Whitetail Institute. They make so many different products for a wide range of soil conditions that you are bound to find something that will work in your area. "It will change the way you hunt."
Thank you Whitetail Institute for taking the time to research what WHITETAIL deer really like to eat and what is nutritious for them as well.
I would encourage anyone who has some type of tillable ground available to them to plant a food plot from the Whitetail Institute. They make so many different products for a wide range of soil conditions that you are bound to find something that will work in your area. "It will change the way you hunt."
