Unlike oaks, these trees bloom later, and those crops contain larger, nutritionally superior nuts with four times the carbohydrates of a white oak acorn, 2.5 times the protein, only a fraction of the fat, and no bitter tannins.
The best tips for how to create and maintain food plots, mineral sites, game camera surveys, habitat enhancements, water sources, predator control, quality deer management and more.
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The best tips for how to create and maintain food plots, mineral sites, game camera surveys, habitat enhancements, water sources, predator control, quality deer management and more.
6 Native Foods Deer Can’t Resist
Want to truly hone in on deer travel patterns? Find, then study these six native food sources where you hunt.
Filling the Nutritional Gap for White-tailed Deer
With the decimation of the American Chestnut came a gap in several supply and food chains, but a new blight-resistant chestnut was created.
How to Get a Weed-Free Fall Food Plot
The author’s outside-the-box methods will help you better prepare for your fall food plot planting this season or next.
This is How Big Bucks Use Their Home Range
There’s a lot of confusing stuff out there about mature whitetails and how they use the landscape. Let’s get down to the nitty gritty on how it all works in the real word.
#6: Realistic QDM Expectations | Alsheimer’s Greatest Insights
Alsheimer wasn’t long into his work on private-land deer management when he realized there was a ceiling to QDM.
#5: How to Plant a Food Plot | Alsheimer’s Greatest Insights
Along with practicing QDM, Alsheimer was one of the first food-plot practitioners north of the Mason-Dixon line.
#4: The Benefits of QDM | Alsheimer’s Greatest Insights
Alsheimer was one of the first people to implement QDM. Here’s what he learned from practicing this management style on 160 acres.
This is One of the Best Trees to Plant for Deer
You’d be hard pressed to find a more nutritious, more attractive hard mast tree than the Dunstan Chestnut.
Why Culling Bucks Doesn’t Actually Help Herd Genetics
Hunters have long talked of ‘culling’ whitetails. But is this theory that culling can impact antler genetics fact or fiction?