Food Plots play a critical role that most hunters and even most biologists don't really understand. The stomach of a deer is its primary predator defense mechanism. Here is exactly what happens.
They lay in thick stuff like this all day long, and what they are doing is the night before or whatever time period it is, they have come out somewhere to where sunlight hits the first floor or a food plot or whatever, and that's where energy is made, that's where stuff is growing. Where the sunlight is getting down to the ground level, where stuff can grow and they eat a whole bunch, and fill up their big white belly we see when we are dressing out a deer and then go back in woods.
Well, that big white belly allows them to store a bunch of food and regurgitate it, chew it back up and swallow it back down. That's their predator defense. If they can lay still for hours at a time in one area, they are not exposing themselves to predation, whether it's a four-legged wolf or a two-legged hunter. Once they get up and start moving around, then it's their eyes and ears and nose, that's predator avoidance.
So if you want predator defense, you want to get the deer out of the woods to the stuff they are not eating and move over here to the food plot. We are getting ready to plant this, prepare it, we have got to stand where it's set up and we know the predominant wind direction, and evening shadows, and all that stuff. And we know there is a really good chance that deer is going to come here this hunting season and eat right here. We are attacking the predator defense mechanism. That's what food plots are all about.
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