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Originally Posted by poppop
I have always heard that...I have one stand in a place I call the "persimmon field"....loaded each year with big old persimmons. I have only shot one buck in there at a persimmon tree. I think the problem are there are dozens and dozens of persimmon trees in that 60 acre grown up pasture and most are really big and loaded. The cows have ate them so much and pooped the seeds....there are hundreds of small persimmon trees about knee high in there in spots. There has been so many acorns in the woods the last couple of years....you could literally scoop them up in a shovel under some of the trees...and the cows works on the acorns to. I have to fence a small section off in the cow pastures to put out corn. I have two or three other stand sites they are within sight of some other big persimmon trees.... I have had deer to come out and eat my corn....within a few feet of persimmons lying all over the ground. I know they hit the persimmon hard...but it seems to be when I am not there.
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Sounds like they can get the persimmons whenever they want to and that is probably why you don't see so much pressure on them. The acorn thing is probably your biggest issue. If they can stay in the woods under cover and eat and have a water supply then they will stay put. I have found many times that the big Bucks will be in a very dense area of woods that has a food supply and a water supply. They will not leave those areas most of their lives except during rut. I have known some Bucks to stay within a 100 square yard area because they have all they need and are too smart to leave their safety area. If you know the area where they move like natural funnels of deer movement, Then You can take one of three things, food, water, and cover and when ones lacking and You find a pond of water in a drought or make a bait pile on a bad crop year or really sparse cover, Then that is where you hunt. CF
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