The Whitetail Institute’s new product, Imperial Whitetail Conceal, is designed for creating bedding areas for deer and concealment for deer and hunter travel, right where you and your deer need it.
General Description
An annual designed for planting in spring, Conceal is a blend of tall-growing seed varieties, each of which grows to a different height, producing a thick wall of foliage up to eight feet tall! Conceal is also attractive to deer as a food source. Even so, Conceal isn’t intended to replace your food plot plantings. Rather, its attractiveness as a food source just encourages deer to use it more often.
Overcoming Obstacles
Think about how most of us hunters approach scouting and studying maps of our properties to stack the odds in our favor: We try to figure out where deer bed, where their food sources are, and their travel routes — trails that deer will likely use, and approaches we’ll use to remain undetected as we hunt. Now, consider that as we go stantly being detected. through that process, we usually find that even the best hunting locations have a hitch of some sort, and it’s usually one of two things: helping deer feel safe so that they’ll stay in the area, and ensuring that hunters can hunt them while minimizing the chance of being detected. For example, there may be little cover near a potential food plot site for deer to bed in or use as a staging area. Cover for deer to travel from the woods to the food plot may also be inadequate, or the only approach for hunters may be across open ground. Problems like that can make certain food plot sites less productive in terms of deer usage, and even un-huntable if there’s no way for hunters to access them without constantly being detected.
Conceal is a game-changer
But what if instead of having to work around, overcome, or live with such problems you could eliminate them? What if you could quickly create bedding areas to help hold deer on your property? What if you could easily create travel corridors where hunters or your deer could travel without being seen? That is exactly what Conceal is designed to do — to stack the odds in your favor by quickly correcting concealment deficiencies on your property!
Examples of Potential Uses for Conceal
The accompanying illustrations demonstrate some ways you might use Conceal on your own property. Again, these are just examples. The possible applications for Conceal are limited only by your imagination.
Suggested Planting Dimensions for Conceal
The Whitetail Institute suggests planting Conceal at least 15 to 20 feet wide as a general rule. (One bag of Conceal will plant 1/4-acre, which is approximately 35 feet wide and 300 feet long.) Keep in mind, though, that deer will feed on some of the Conceal components, so you may need to plant wider areas if you’re in an area of high deer density or low natural food availability. If you are planting Conceal to funnel deer and have the room, though, then consider planting Conceal in wider strips of about 90 to 100 feet wide. That will give you a wide-enough funnel that you can hang stands on all four corners and always be able to hunt it based on wind direction.
Final Thoughts
One of the components in Conceal provides up to 28 to 30 percent protein and fixes nitrogen. When snow arrives, some of your Conceal stand will bend down. It depends on how much snow you get, of course, but in most cases Conceal should stand up through deer season and continue to provide a good bit of cover thereafter. Conceal is designed for spring planting only. Medium heavy to lighter soils with soil pH of 6.5 to 7 are optimum. Conceal needs at least six hours of full sunlight per day.
