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Paul Rowley – How to hunt like a Cajun
Well, a few years back, I purchased a Boss Buck feeder, and I started feeding Purina Mills deer chow. And where I hunt in Mississippi, it’s not a really known area for really nice bucks. Well, that year, we had quite a few really nice bucks stay in our area and come into that feeder time and time and time and time. And we was able to pattern that deer. And a friend of mine ended up harvesting the deer, beautiful 10-point buck, by far the biggest deer that’s ever been killed on our place. And we also plant soybeans to help bring our deer into our lease and hold them there. Paul Rowley – How to hunt like a Cajun
Bruce: So what do you do during the year? You said you had a feeder. Now do you have food plots, micro-plots? Tell us about your year-round process.
Paul: We have food plots. During the summer, we’ll plant soybeans. There’s another product I found called Mean Bean, by Evolved Harvest. And it has done absolute great job of pulling bucks in and holding them in our spot. During the fall, I’ll plant some other stuff that’s worked really well as well.
Bruce: So how do you take care of that land? Are you just like a farmer, or do you visit it once a week? A farmer works it every single day or every single week. so tell us how you developed those two plots so they produce good forage for the bucks.
Paul: I usually visit once a month. Once every month and a half, I’ll make my drive up to Mississippi. We have a tractor. We prepare the dirt. I chop it multiple times to get a good seed bed fertilizing line. And it’s done very, very well for us to hold deer on our place. For a long time, we couldn’t get deer to just stay on our place that we hunt. So when we started doing this maintaining good food plots good high-protein food plots and putting up them feeders with the high-protein feed it’s really helped us tremendously in holding deer in our area we hunt.
Bruce: Now, how big of acreage do you have up there in Mississippi?
Paul: We have 1,000 acres.
Bruce: That’s quite a bit of land. Now is that pine, or is that hardwoods? What kind of land is it?
Paul: It’s pine and hardwood mix. And it’s difficult where we hunt. A lot of locals up there they don’t hunt for bucks per se the big bucks. They almost shoot anything. For us, it’s hard to try to get a big mature deer to stay on our place. So that’s when we started putting good feed putting good food plots and it’s really helped us the last few years.
Bruce: So by having the food there you’ve got to have some water there. You’ve got to have cover there. So if you have those three things what you’re saying is that you’re holding deer year-round?
Paul: Correct. We have a creek that runs through the property. We have good thickets for them to hide in. It was just that the lack of good nutritious food is what we were missing. And then since we’ve started doing that we’ve had very good success.
says that you have thousands of trail camera pictures and your hunting buddies love it
Bruce: Now in the warm-up and in your bio it says that you have thousands of trail camera pictures and your hunting buddies love it. They laugh at you because of how much time you take looking at the pictures. Let’s talk about that for a little bit and the importance of your trail cams.
Paul: I like viewing my pictures and getting to know my deer. Getting to know almost everything about him. If there’s a little nick in the ear, when I see this deer, I know what deer it is. And I can age it, determine on the size of it and whatnot. And my buddies, they’re not as serious as I am about it, so they do kind of make jokes about it. But whenever it comes down to it, they know they can come to me, “Hey, you seen this deer before?” “Yeah, I’ve seen that deer.” You know?
Bruce: So what’s a buck have to be to make it to your hit list for any particular year?
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