I'm hunting near Woden North East of Sam Rayburn. My question is to the guys that hunt in that area. What are you going to plant in your food plots? the area I'm in is kinda sandy and wanted see whats bringing in the deer for you guys in the area. I'm about to send off for a soil sample.

Spring or Fall?

Spring for sure.

Sand is about the best soil you can ask for... it loves oats and weat for the winter and cow peas and clover during the spring... but also gophers, ants, and army worms love the sand as well.. id take a soil sample one way or another.. may need to lime or fertalize

Cowpeas & buckwheat

interesting never tried buckwheat..

cow peas in the spring and oats in the fall.

50 lb corn,-- 50 lb rack king spring deer plot,-- 50 lb cow peas,--50 lb arrowleaf clover, -- 50 lb bird seed, 50 lb fertilizer, --50 lb agricul lime, mix in large concrete mixer disc and spread 75 lb per acre

inoculant wouldn't hurt either

Whereabouts at Woden? I have three leases between Woden and Etoile. I have had good luck in the past with cowpeas, but only when we get rain. The last few years I planted they came up just enough to burn up due to no rain.

Try out buckwheat. It matures quickly, produces seeds & can be tilled under for a younger crop. Last yr I just let the elbon seed and the deer and hogs were mowing down the pods.

Usually put a couple bags of bird seed in with the mix also Millet and sunflower mainly

Russ 79 were off of County rd 420

lol

Doesn't mean they're hunting the CR, Nav.

Cowpeas are always going to do well in most areas. Check into clovers for your area also. You can get several years from one planting.

I beleive I was on the same lease you are on. It was the Piney Ridge Hunting Club. Is Buford still on that lease?

I got good results from Iron and Clay Peas for spring but deer did not hit them much until August. In Fall, oats, rye, wheat, mix, add some winter peas if you want. Hunt the SMZs with the acorns on travel routes in Oct. Had good luck in the pines next to the smz's in Early November. use a can call and grunt tube out there, trust me.

Yes Buford is the lease manager. I haven't had a whole lot of luck in my stands at all. This was my fourth season on the place and I finally seen deer in one of them. I been hunting the Pipeline stands and having pretty good luck. I love the lease just trying to get my stands better. I get gam cam pics of deer all the time just never see them in person.

Piney ridge, CR 420 is what we call the Oil Springs Rd. The first producing oil well in Texas in on this road. I have one lease where CR420 hits FM226- both sides of CR420 and across the road on FM226. I also have another lease where CR420 runs into CR425, so I must go past your lease when I go that way. If you need any help with putting in your food plots let me know- I have all the equipment needed.

Thanks Russ79 ill definitely hit you up if i get into a bind. Ive got a tractor in a disk but you never know what will happen up there. I stuck my tractor in a creek one time and my and a buddy dug it out with some t post it only took 7 hours. I know right where you place is. Do you know the guy that lives in the white house on the right on 420 just passed your first lease?

Are you talking about the house with all the junk around it or the one right before it that sits off the road a little ways behind the fence with the goats.

The one with all the junk around it.

Tell Buford Chris Smith and Gary Bland said hey. not sure where you are set up but might consider Stanley Blands old sites on the North and South side. Got some good bucks out those areas in the past. Buford probably remembers where they are unless he took them over after we left. I imagine lots has changed since the last timber harvest. There are some really good deer in this area, no so great in numbers but quality is good.

is my old travel trailer still up there on the camp hill? lol

Both of my stands where the Blands. The one i have on the south is ok i finally seen a deer there this year. They had a blind that was white and built out of siding on that spot, i have changed the set up somewhat there. I have one of the Blands north side they had a tripod down in a hardwood bottom that backs up to a clear cut. Ive gotten some really good bucks on game cam there but i have never seen a deer personally there.My buddy bought the big double blind they had on the south side, since then a pipeline was run through there and a lot of really good bucks have been seen or shot there. Ive hunted the pipelines mostly, since you guys have left we have 3 new pipelines. I seen a really good 11 point at number three this year but was shaking to bad to take the shot so i let him walk (three times). The old pipeline that was there is now about 4 times wider. There has been no clear cutting till this year. They thinned the pines near the 1 pipeline stand. I bought the biscuit from them and since have had it hauled off, i had a run in with a snake in the bed and that was the last straw.