Imperial Whitetail CONCEAL is designed to quickly
produce screening cover for food plots, deer bedding, hunter travel and much more.
As such, its potential uses are virtually unlimited. CONCEAL sold out last
year, and it’s expected to sell out this year too, so don’t delay ordering
CONCEAL if you want to be sure you don’t miss out on it this year!
In this article, we’ll use the term “cover”
to describe what is in essence “screening”: something that obscures deer or
hunters from visibility sufficiently to give deer a feeling of safety coming to
your property, staying there, and utilizing the property more often during
daylight hours.
Winning the Competitive Sport.
There’s no question that deer hunting is a
competitive sport. While many of us have occasionally connected with deer
during past seasons purely by luck, we know that consistent success during
hunting season depends almost entirely on the quality of our preparation. The
better we prepare, the more our odds of success increase. In essence, preparation
is a matter of stacking the
deck in the hunter’s favor in two ways: by maximizing the drawing and holding
capacity of our hunting property, and by minimizing the chances that deer will
detect us as we move to and from our stands. Both are heavily influenced by the
availability of cover.
CONCEAL’s Primary Attraction: Cover. Designed to be planted in the spring CONCEAL
is a carefully designed blend of fast-growing plant types that produce thick
foliage and that grow to different heights, producing a dense wall of foliage
up to 8-9 feet tall, which provides highly attractive cover for bedding and travel.
CONCEAL’s Secondary Attraction: Food. While CONCEAL is also designed to be
attractive to deer as a food source, it’s not designed to replace your food
plot plantings. Here again, the Whitetail Institute’s detailed attention to
research, development and testing is evident. The Whitetail Institute designed
CONCEAL to offer just enough attractiveness as a food source to give deer even
more incentive to use it and still maintain its value as cover by regenerating
and continuing to grow as deer utilize it.
Examples of Uses for CONCEAL. CONCEAL’s thickness, height and rapid growth
make it ideal for establishing bedding areas near food plots and anywhere else
you and your deer would benefit from cover such as screening food plots from
public roads and neighbors, and dividing large, open areas into plantable
strips. Another application for CONCEAL is to plant it in strips to establish cover
for deer and hunter travel. For example, CONCEAL can be used to funnel deer
between two heads of woods that are separated by open ground. Consider that by
providing deer one way to cross the open space and remain concealed, you can
actually alter deer travel so that they walk by your stand! In most cases,
planting a strip of CONCEAL about 90-100 feet wide between the two wooded areas
is sufficient to allow you to hang stands in multiple locations at each end of
the strip so that you can hunt it in any wind direction. Also consider how
important it is that hunters be able to access stands without spooking deer.
That can be difficult to impossible in cases where the only way to reach a
stand is either through a bedding area that surrounds part of the food plot or
across open ground. CONCEAL can be the answer in such cases by allowing you to
plant tall, thick cover across the open ground to shield hunter travel. In most
cases, planting a strip of CONCEAL at least 15-20 feet wide will be sufficient.
Once CONCEAL is established and toward the end of summer, mow a 3-6 foot wide
walking path through the middle of the CONCEAL to allow a quiet and concealed
entry and exit. One bag of CONCEAL will plant 1/4 acre, which is approximately
20 feet wide by 500 feet long. CONCEAL can also be used to plant little spots
of cover to camouflage ground blinds and, for those of us who are getting old
enough to need to drive a little closer to our stands, a spot to hide an ATV or
other vehicle out of sight.
Conclusion. CONCEAL comes in 7lb. bags that will plant ¼
acre and is designed for planting in the spring. Do not plant CONCEAL until
soil reaches a constant temperature of 65°or higher. Finally, keep in mind that
if you own the property, it’s a good idea to establish more permanent
screening. In most areas, you can identify native grasses, shrubs or trees that
can provide permanent screening once they’re mature enough. CONCEAL is an ideal
tool for providing screening cover until your permanent screening plants are able
to do the job.
