Here is the explanation of the illustration:
- The big green "S" is a food plot, it can be clover, chicory, peas, sugar beets, whatever you want.
- The brown stripes, on the inside bends of the "S," are NWSG, they are put there for cover for deer when they enter the food plot, cover for bedding, and cover for quail.
- The large green area with brown dots is, as you might have guessed, a forest. If they are oaks, the deer have a great area for them. Where else do they get, cover, lots of great food, and socialization all at once?
- And lastly, the big black dots are treestands, which might have been obvious. You can put them in different locations than shown, but this way you can hunt with almost any direction of wind blowing without it carrying your scent to the deer.
This is just a picture, okay? Realize that there are no dimensions, it's that way so you have the freedom to do however big or small you need. You might have done that even if I did dimensions.
But I want to do a note on the NWSG, if you want tall grasses (this would help with calling, because the deer can't see the "buck" or "doe" or even "fawn" that's calling to them, so they must come to investigate, putting them in your sights. 1 ), it is recommended by the University of Tennessee, that tall grass blends are usually made up of: big bluestem, indiangrass, little bluestem and switchgrass 2 . You might also could add a little broomsedge in there. But, the tall grass may not stay up in the winter, but they're still a good choice.
Short grass blend include: little bluestem, broomsedge and or sideoats gama, and other legumes and forbs. These types give cover for wildlife also, but maybe not quite as much for a deer.
Another idea to make this even better would be to put a water source close by the area of this setup.
That's all for now!
2. Native Warm Season Grasses, University of Tennessee, pdf, pg.92
