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Unread postby Sam Ubl » Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:35 am

After three weeks of my camera hanging on the edge of an alf-alfa field I hunt, I had only two pictures of deer and barely any turkey... WHAT?? I expected nearly a full card :?

What's going on I wondered, and soon I was questioning sabatoge from the neighbors. I called the land owner and asked him about the crop. In essense, the field looks overgrown and plagues with weeds... Usually it's plush green and all the same height :|

"How's the alf-alfa doing this year?" I asked.

His response was positive, suggesting the crazy amounts of rain have made the crop grow much taller this year and he suggested the weeds growing throughout is due to the same cause. I'm no farmer, but I assumed weeds wouldn't grow due to the shadows of the tall alf-alfa. Either way, the crop is edible, so why no pictures?

After discussing with my good friend and whitetail all star, James Formolo, he suggested a simple solution, or BST (Bull Sh$! Theory). He aske, "Ever walk through a field and noticed how much cooler low spots are compared to the little rises?"

I knew exactly what he was talking about, and thought how wild it is that such a temperature difference is noticable between a low corner or edge compared to the higher parts of the fields.

He then said, "If I were a deer, I'd prefer the cooler areas over the higher, hotter areas, if i were a deer. They might just be in lower areas now to hide from the heat a little bit.?"

So I considered this theory and set my cameras in two low corners of the field where there was a noticable temperature difference yesterday evening after work. . . We'll see what happens come mid August.

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Unread postby Black Squirrel » Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:03 am

As Mythbusters would say it seems "plausible". I too would think with all the rain, the alfalfa crop would be in top shape, however it could be getting old, if the field is too wet to harvest. Are there alot of purple flowers on it? If so, it is probably over mature. In any case they may have a different favored food source somewhere else, like bean fields(Deer seem to be coming to them heavy now), or a neighboring food plot. It will be intresting to see what the cameras turn up. Keep us posted.
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Unread postby Cage Rattler » Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:11 am

That's an interesting theory and I may be able to validate it somewhat. The other day we were glassing some agri fields and noticed multiple deer, bucks included, bedded down in the flooded rice fields. They were laying in the freshly pumped colder water during the noon hours and it was blistering hot that day. Seemed like a good idea to me.
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Unread postby Sam Ubl » Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:18 am

Black Squirrel wrote: Are there alot of purple flowers on it? If so, it is probably over mature.


Thanks for the feedback Squirrel, there ARE purple flowers on it... Something I've never seen before in the 5 years I've been hunting this property. I was wondering why there were purple flowers; I began questioning if it was alf-alfa.

It HAS been to wet to harvest, which would explain the over-maturity. Does anyone know if the deer are turned off by that?
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Unread postby lungbuster » Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:49 pm

Once alfalfa flowers it does not offer the tender clovers like it would when still growing and I suppose the deer could be turned off if they have a better food source.
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Unread postby Sam Ubl » Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:11 am

Another good tidbit, thanks Lung.
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