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Jerry Burns –
Georgia
I have used Whitetail
Institute products for about 10 years now in at least 4 different states
including MO, IL, SC and GA. I now live in Georgia but still travel home
to the Midwest every year to hunt in MO and IL. We use your products not
just for their tremendous nutritional values but also for the incredible
palatability that they seem to have. It’s been our experience that if
the Imperial Whitetail Clover is planted properly deer will seek it out
over just about everything else available. We have strategically used
the clover in many different ways not so much to hunt directly over but
to create and draw deer through certain transition areas where we can
get in and out of undetected. We basically use the clover as our magnet
because there is no doubt they will come to it if you plant it. One
instance out of many occurred this bow season. We had replanted all of
our clover plots on a farm we hunt in Illinois. We were very excited
abut it because we planted more clover than we had ever had on this
particular farm before. However, due to an extreme drought most of what
we planted never had a chance to really make like we really wanted it
to. To compensate we bought several acres of standing corn from the
farmer hoping it would make up for our lack of green food plots. When we
arrived at the farm to hunt and prep our standing corn plots we drove
the tractor thru what were supposed to be nice green clover food plots
and found mostly grown up weeds. There was one exception however. There
was about 1/8 of an acre that had come up in one cove that usually stays
pretty moist. We went ahead and mowed it because the temps were still
pretty warm and thought it might still grow some. Due to the small size
of the plot though we doubted it would factor at all in how the deer
used the farm and made no plans on hunting in the immediate area. Two
days into the hunt we knew for a fact we had misjudged the drawing power
of even 1/8 of an acre of Imperial Whitetail Clover!!! The deer wouldn’t
stay out of it. Here we had bought all this corn and the deer were
coming to a clover plot that was maybe 20 x 30 yards wide. We quickly
adjusted our strategy for hunting the farm and I harvested a 10 pointer
with my bow that grossed 153 inches on my first climb within 250 yards
of the clover. It’s nice to know where the does are going to be during
the rut!!! If you know that you can make a pretty good game plan on how
to hunt the bucks looking for them. I wish I knew how many times we have
used your products to put the does right where we wanted them when we
wanted them there. Thanks for a great product and for a neat publication
like the Whitetail News to keep us all updated on your progress and new
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