Beans?
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Good question.
I don't have much experience hunting beans as a food source. Or more accurately, I haven't been paying enough attention to how they are used by the deer to fully capitalize on them.
I thought I heard Dan mention something about them in one of the Hunting Public Michigan Challenge videos; something to the effect that they eat them before they turn yellow and after they are fully ripe and turn brown, but not so much in between?
I don't have much experience hunting beans as a food source. Or more accurately, I haven't been paying enough attention to how they are used by the deer to fully capitalize on them.
I thought I heard Dan mention something about them in one of the Hunting Public Michigan Challenge videos; something to the effect that they eat them before they turn yellow and after they are fully ripe and turn brown, but not so much in between?
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I heard the same on the video that’s what prompted my question. I’m trying to put together a game plan for when I can Hunt this weekend.
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Deer are still preferring the small standing bean plot we have on our family land at this point. The beans are all brown and dry. I'm not sure it's the same draw as when they are green but they are still hitting them. They are a huge draw for us when we get that first snow of gun season sometime around Thanksgiving 8f you happen to still have standing beans that late
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Around here the deer seam to ignore the beans until it gets cold after they have turned. Once it starts snowing I will see deer feeding back out in the bean fields again. They seem to focus on acorns and corn once the beans start to turn around here. We normally have cover crops of annual rye, oats and cereal rye on our fields. That can pull alot of deer late season as well.
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Only food source option around me is dried up beans and alfalfa, the acorn crop was really poor. I’m trying to decide if I should focus on the beans or alfalfa.
The beans might be harvested by the time I get up there too.
The beans might be harvested by the time I get up there too.
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Alfalfa should be good. As long as it isn't really big and rank. Really good high protein feed.
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Half of the deer I saw last week were feeding in brown beans. They don't spend as much time in them though, right now. As they do when it's very cold.
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I’ve been observing fields in my area. The does and small bucks are still in them. I’ve lost one of the bucks I’m after. So he isn’t showing in the beans in daylight. There has been heavy pressure around him soo I think I’m just going to push in close and see if he is still there when I get the weather I want.
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Thanks for the info! I hope you can get back on him.
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Quest1001 wrote:Only food source option around me is dried up beans and alfalfa, the acorn crop was really poor. I’m trying to decide if I should focus on the beans or alfalfa.
The beans might be harvested by the time I get up there too.
alfalfa! Beans later on when the other stuff is not so hot. If its green or white its dynamite!
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