Ever notice what happens to the rest of deer season if you shoot a deer in the food plot?

Here's a tip:

Try and find the main trails the deer are are using to come

to your feeder.

Situate your stand to hunt the trail rather than

hunt the feeder.

The deer won't be so spooked around the

feeder.

Also, you might see deer that won't otherwise come

to the feeder.

Some deer are just too wary to step out under

a feeder.

I have noticed there are some bucks that will follow does and then stop short of walking out into the feeder clearing.

They are not always so dumb as we think!

I am an avid deer hunter and have a 500+ acre hunting club. We have several food plots and I have never found that killing a deer in a food plot will keep others away. As a matter of fact, I can't count the times that a we've killed deer back to back days in the same food plot, sometimes standing in the exact same spot. When deer sense hunting pressure they do tend to go nocturnal, especially the bucks. It could be possible that the deer in the area are feeling this pressure from you and other hunters. Also, there's a better chance that a deer is picking up your lingering scent and getting spooked than the scent of blood. If you are still concerened the blood might be the cause DO NOT use bleach or ammonia. Take some water and poor over the blood area. This will dilute the blood and spread it thin.

No it's because once you shoot a deer or two in the food plot, the pressure will cause them to become nocturnal, that is they will only visit the food plot after dark. The problem is once you shoot a couple of deer, drive through the food plot in an atv or 4x4, load up the deer, talk, spread your scent, etc, the deer become spooked.

I bet if you check you will find tracks, etc. to indicate they are still using the plot. You just don't see them while hunting. Don't use bleach around your food plot-that will keep them away day and night.

The best thing to do is just "rest" the area - stay away for a few days.

Using Bleach will act as a deterrent, and drive Deer away. Field dressing your Deer in the plot would be just as bad. Nature will remove the human and Deer blood smell with time and a little rain to wash it into the ground. There is absolutely no need to do anything else but let nature take it's course.

Deer feed in cycles and sometimes nature will interrupt their feeding patterns. For example if there is a full moon, then Deer will feed thru the night as long as they have light enough to see.....Feeding this long will have a direct effect on Deer herd movement for up to 3-5 days after and their "cycle" is broken. Too much human activity in the area will result in the same thing happening..Just relax and you will see that they will most certainly come back to the food plot. Just because you aren't seeing them when you are out doesn't mean they aren't feeding in it.....Patience

I agree its not the blood. Its the hunting pressure/human activity in the area. I live amongst the deer. They are here and in sight until opening weekend then go nocturnal until about three weeks after everyone says they are not around anymore and gives up then the deer are back in force. Your scent has nothing to do with it though it might alert them to your presence in a blind. Pee under your deer feeder. I bet they will eat the corn that night. I put urine, a scare crow,and a radio blairing music in my garden and they ate it right up next to the radio. Deer are smart enough to understand yet dumb enough to be scared of a house cat. They do not like things above them. I can sit in plain sight and watch them as long as I do not move but let a cat run up a tree in the yard and they are gone. I have shot a deer in a food plot and the others never left while I loaded it. It all depends upon how much they have been hunted and how hungary they are. When they disappear you need to move to an area that is thick in brush and hunt the edges at dawn and dusk. They are in there. And more, they can hear you walking for a couple of hundered yards. I have sat in a blind and seen them leave an area of thick brush (7 or 8 of tehm) when a hunter walked down the far side to his blind. Have somebody drop you off in a truck if possible, they stand and listen to the truck move though and do not realize you have been left behind. They are use to the farmer/rancher. If not possible move into the area early and wait quietly. Deer can move through brush rapidly and bucks are going to move during the rut regardless off danger. Sex is in their brain.

Last year I shot a buck and he ran past my feeder 50 yards where I went to tag him. I turned around a started back and an even larger buck was under the same feeder.

notice rest deer season shoot deer food plot

yeah..i killed a deer on a food plot last year and didnt see anything in that area for the rest of the year...but it was so dry the food plots didnt grow right anyway...

but thats what happens on a WMA lol...

but b4 i gut my deer i drag it into the woods so the guts aint laying in the plot lol

bleach well just make it worse.