Adam Keith Growing Deer

Adam Keith Growing Deer.  Okay, so basically to give you the whole gist of the story, family farm, just under 300 acres in Douglas County Missouri, mostly timber country, the open ground is usually fescue pastures, it's cattle country.

I don't hunt it a whole lot, just because of work and traveling but the way I hunt it is when it's absolutely perfect. http://www.growingdeer.tv/

I know it's a front just moved through

I know it's a front just moved through, the big deer are on their feet, still during daylight hours and the wind's right and I can get into a stand and not alert any deer. Adam Keith Growing Deer

I can offer them security

I like to treat small of land, small properties as in number one thing I can offer if I can't offer tons of acres of food and crop fields and tons of acres of native grasses for bedding, I can offer them security. Adam Keith Growing Deer

I stay out of it unless I can absolutely get in there and not alert the deer

I stay out of it unless I can absolutely get in there and not alert the deer. I stayed out of it. Second time I've hunted it this year, and had a nice southeast wind, cold front just moved through, high pressure, Bluebird Bay, had one stand I could slip up in, close to the bedding area because it was a little warmer that day so I got in close to the bedding area and a four-and-a-half-year-old buck by the name of Sticker Eight stepped out and 40 yard shot, he ran 10 yards and the rest is history as they say.

Out of all the hunts I've been on that's definitely up there in the top five for sure.

Actually, I didn't grunt at that deer. To kind of give you a little bit more of the story, going back to small properties, trying to find ways to increase the amount of food on the property. And I went in and hunted this area last year, noticed that there was a lot of cedar trees taking over the area growing up 10-foot-tall and thinking about where a deer lives.

They're living zero to four foot off the ground level. I need to increase the amount of cover and food at that level. My brother, Matt Dye and myself went this past winter in February and cut all these cedars down and a bunch of other trees that aren't really providing much Adamefit to the wildlife. We cut 'em down.

going back to small properties, trying to find ways to increase the amount of food on the property.

We said we want more sunlight hitting the forest floor and instead of trying to create a food plot there, we went with the native forage approach. Instead of making a food plot of soybeans, clover or brassicas, all the other types of food plot blend, we decided to go with the native food plot. Cut all the stuff, all the cedars, all the other junk trees and just let the sunlight hit.

we decided to go with the native food plot

We stayed out of that area until just this past weekend and we went back in there and there was all kinds of native growth, a lot of little legumes and forbes growing inside the timber but we opened up the canopy, let the sunlight shine down and that buck stood up. I assume he was bedded close because he was walking almost in slow motion kinda stretching.

He at one point reaches his head back and scratches his back with his antlers. It took him when we saw him about 80 yards away, it took him about 15 minutes to move to 40 yards. Moving just really, really slow, feeding on the native vegetation, that had grown up after all the cutting we had done last winter.

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