My plots are small and about 50 yards apart from each other. This is the only green fields in the whole area. I’m in an urban area. There are houses everywhere and no farm fields. But these two plots attract and hold big bucks and more importantly does. Does and fawns feed in them like crazy. They feed so hard that the plot maintains a height of about 8 to 10 inches in summer, and in fall it is less than an inch tall. I have had these two plots in for two years and am just starting to reap the rewards! I also use 30-06 Mineral. I plan to put in an even bigger plot of Alfa-Rack Plus this year. This past year I killed a buck of a lifetime. It green scored 182-2/8. He showed up on Oct. 1. This is when I got my first picture of him. He loved my food plots for both the clover and for the does. There were several times he was there and I was at work. It was heart breaking until Nov. 20 when I was out on an evening hunt set up in a ground blind on my food plot. I wasn’t going to go because; well I was diagnosed with Lupus last May. This disease makes me very fatigued and after a day of work it’s hard to go hunting. And I had been hunting fairly hard. But I decided on the way home at 2:30 p.m. I was going to go. I sat in my blind on my food plot and didn’t see a deer until 4:40 a.m. It gets dark at 5:30 p.m. It was a button buck. He was only in the plot for a minute or two and ran off. Within the next minute, I caught the monster out of the corner of my eye. It seemed liked it took forever for him to take a few steps into the clover plot. When he did I took the shot with my ten point crossbow and blew both of his lungs out. He only went 30 yards and piled up. What an awesome way to end an evening. He was a monster 10-point with a couple of kickers. Thank you Whitetail Institute for your excellence through the years.
