Just because it's green, it doesn't mean its deer food. Here's a couple of perfect examples. This is waxmyrtle, real common woody shrub down here in south. It has got leaves so much similar to the Blackberry. You can see Blackberry is coming out here or even these larger Honeysuckles. You can see so many suckles has been bit off right here already this, early this year.
Just because it's green, it doesn't mean deer eat it. Deer can be starving to death and not touch this bush but they'll climb a wall to get this some of these Honeysuckle leaves or these Blackberries when they in season. So a great key for a hunter is to figure out what deer eating in place your stance accordingly. We call that Scouting from skinning shed, when someone harvest a deer, we simply determine what they have been eating right there on that property that day, then we know where to place stances because we know what their preferred diet consist of right down, whether it's food plot crops or native vegetation or combination, maybe we found some of these in a staging area, a hundred yards from a food plot.
We say, well they are really going out at food plot because that's 70% under-stomachic content but they've 10% of these Blackberries in there and that has to be 100 yards off the food plot that's where they will be going before dark. That's where we want to put our stance.
Scouting from the skinning shed, unbelievable hunting technique.
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