Hunting Your Whitetail Food Plot
Step 1: Know Your Seed

Different varieties of food plot seed all serve different purposes and can be attractive during different times of the year. Clover, alfalfa, peas, wheat, oats, rye, and radishes are big buck attractors for early season and through the rut. As soon as these seeds germinate they give deer a nutritious buffet that deer hit early and stay throughout the year. However, once the frost hits, the attractiveness of these crops become less appealing to deer.

Seeds like corn, soybeans, and turnips can be a killer rut and late season food source for deer. Once the cold hits, deer need carbohydrates to keep them going. After the frost arrives, these crops become more powerful and attractive to deer because of the sugars, fibers, and starches that they contain.
Step 2: Utilize Trail Cameras

Step 3: Know Your Buck

BaseMap Tip: Knowing a buck’s favorite bedding area is vital to understanding the path he takes into the food plot. Use BaseMap’s high resolution satellite imagery layer to help locate possible bedding areas by pin-pointing ridges, marsh edges with cattails, benches, and thickets that are near your whitetail food plot.
Step 4: Own The Wind

The very last thing you want when hunting is your wind blowing right in the whitetail’s buffet you have meticulously prepared. As mentioned above, this is a destination area for deer, and more times than not you are going to have multiple deer in the buffet at a time. Use BaseMap’s HuntWind™ feature to make sure your wind is blowing in the correct direction before you navigate to your tree stand.


– OWN THE WIND –
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