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Make sure you tune in to part two of John O’Brion, Grandpa Ray Outdoors. He's going to be talking about creating funnels, creating pinch points, and creating cover so you can get to your blind or your tree stand without being seen. How does he do it? He does it with something called Egyptian weed. He does it with a lot of tall growing forage-type products that he knows works and he's got a great friend in Wisconsin that's helped him figure out how to do this and how to make the right crops for the right situation to have deer actually move toward your stand. Brad Jones is his friend who's helped him with this.

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I'm with John O’Brion from Grandpa Ray and this is part two. We've got a really good show going. We've got some good thought patterns on making deer a goal where you want them to go in using forage and different types of crops. John, let's stay with what your buddy has talked about, Brad Jones, about how he moved deer or creates pathways and funnels and specific areas where deer are going to use so then he's got a stand set up pretty much maxed out. Let's continue talking about that.

One place where I invited you to come visit when you come over into Wisconsin is a place called Drop Tine Hollow. There are some videos that we put out there that we've shown people and they were able to see how that was set up. A few little terms I'll use and I'm trying to paint people a little bit of a visual just for the words now is I love creating scrape lines along the woods' edges. Other reasons for that some people overlook is if you're planting corn and beans. Think like a farmer again, when you plant corn and beans along those woods' edges which tend to be shadier, they tend to not do very well. Why do that? The clover blends will tend to tolerate that better. Another way of looking at it, trying to maximize the amount of forage that you're providing to your deer. Create this little edging, create some really good perennial forages, utilize that area to the best of whatever it's able to grow. If you're going to be doing some screenings, we will put that out there and it could be 30 yards out, which is something some people might want to consider is if their bow hunting in their effective range, that's the same as 25 yards, 30 yards. Maybe plant your perennials out to that point so when a deer is out in that field and if they're just outside your scrape line, your perennial clover, your perennial legume blend, it's easier to range those deer, if that makes sense.

Yes, that makes a lot of sense.

A lot of guys I work with, if they do want to plant corn, corn can be an effective screening product. Think like a farmer and you should really rotate your corn and soybeans every year. I have a number of people that'll plant strips. If you do have a slope, there's a term called contour strip farmer where you'll run and you’ll alternate the corn and beans. You're also being a conservationist where you're helping hold soil. You can run a strip of corn and then the next strip got to be the beans and then the following strip again will be corn. Use corn as a food source or destination source or even a screening source where depending on how your stand is laid out on your property, is to help get you into the stand.