Question About Muscadines

[Hogcoots]

I am on a large hunting lease in North Georgia and want to narrow my scouting down a little bit.  I want to see if I can find some muscadines for the early bow season.  My question is do muscadines prefer to grow around creek banks, thickets, ridges, bottoms?  Any help would be appreciated.

[beetlebailey1977]

I have found them about every where.  But they need sun light and there is no way to be sure you have any on the property.  There are other wild grapes that you may find also.

[ChrisM]

I find them near a creek usually.  Look for their large base vines a they hide very well sometimes in the canopy.

[Karl Kortemeier]

Depends on where you are, but they seem to be in areas that have been disturbed (Logged areas).  That said, I have seen them everywhere.

[Mudd]

If they still taste as good as my memory tells me they are especially when made up into preserves I'd let the other game go until I had picked all I could get my paws on...lol

Beyond that, I'm not much help.

Grandma always knew where they were and she walked us right to them the same as she did with the wild fig trees.

I found out at a very early age that there is a lot of good eating stuff that comes from the woods.

BTW grandma lived in what they called the Hatchie River bottoms in western Tennessee.

Good luck with your search!

God bless,Mudd

[zipper bowss]

Muscadines????    
Any pictures?
Bill

[Hogcoots]

Bill,

Here is a link to wikipedia with pictures.  Muscadines are a variety of grape that can be cultivated or found growing wild primarily in the Southeast U.S.  Very tough skin and resistent to pests and disease.  I have never hunted over them for deer.  But, I would bet that if you can find them and get on them in early bow season (mid-September) in Georgia, you may have a honey hole for sure.

I was wondering if other hunters had experience with them and if they prefer a certain area in the wild.  It would help me narrow my scouting down substantially if I could get a little knowledge from my tradgang friends.

By the way, I want a Zipper Bow!


 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscadine_grapes

[awbowman]

Muscadine wine, it mellows the soul

[Terry Green]

They usually rippen about season's opening around my area.  I've also found them 'ready to eat' scouting before the season.  I've always had a problem of stopping and hanging around once I stumble onto a ripe vine.  Too irresistible to say the least.

There is no way to tell really where you might find a vine......but you can spot them if you are looking.   And, Deer aren't the only animals that eat them.

[bolong]

You are subject to find them anywhere. They generally start ripening around late september here. Love me some muscadine jelly.

[Looper]

One of my most favorite hunting spots is covered with a huge spread of muscadines.  It's about 50 square yards.  When they ripen, that area is loaded with all kinds of critters.  Last year, I spooked off a big black bear.  A week earlier, 6 does were bedded down in the middle of it.  I've watched grey foxes there many times.  The only thing is that it is on a pretty steep mountainside and it's very difficult to approach stealthily. There is no way to approach it from the top, either.

[zipper bowss]

Thanks for the info.  
Bill