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Anybody seeing or not seeing deer in their food plots?  I have one plot that's about an acre of corn and brassica and it's barely getting hit.  I have been getting the occasional doe on the trail camera but I am really surprised by the lack of activity all season.  There's hardly any hunter pressure in this area except for the occasional sit every other week or so and I usually only check my camera during this sit. I have another spot of turnips that was devoured by mid October.  I thought the mix of corn and brassica would be a slam dunk???  I don't get it??

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an acre of corn won't last long at all.  brassicas would be hit if it did ok and came up.  I assume they're strips of each and not mixed together?  maybe the camera isn't picking up everything but it's still getting some activity.  also you can't probably see deer in the corn if you're hunting it.

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I have less that an acre of standing corn and it is still loaded with ears ...they just cut the big fields save a coupl of acres and there are deer in my standing corn nighty and fawns allday...the turnips inthe soybeans were hit hard and all at night save the fawns...what theyare hiting in this snow are the high sugar grass plots and that is at variuos times...though due to wind and the crunching of snow I'm never able to sneak in with out bumping them..

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I'll be heading up tonight and we're suppose to get a WNW wind tomorrow so I will finally get a chance to sit on the edge of that field again.  My last good encounters were back in the beginning of October with the bow.  I had a real nice 6 and 8 spar a little bit but they were out about 45-50 yards and never came any closer.  Then around Halloween I had the same 8 come out 35 yards to my right but the cover from the pine tree wouldn't let me draw my bow in that direction.  Since then, the cameras have shown very little activity.  I'm hoping with the cold temps and rut activity, one of them will be out tomorrow afternoon feeding!!! 

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My brassicas are getting hit, but only after dark...

I assume that during the day they are eating the tremendous acorn crop..I have seen a few acorn crops this heavy, but never one heavier..All they have to do is stand up from thier beds and eat.. They sure aren't moving much to feed..

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Pygmy... you are absolutely correct.  Last weekend trail camera pics should the plot getting hit at night.  The fawns are starting to hit the plot at last light.  I was also surprised to see a flock of turkey spending a great deal of time in brassica on more than one occassion.  Even though I wasn't able to use the plot to hunt over this year, I know that it will definitely feed and hold deer over the winter!!!

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