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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: Billy74 on October 16, 2017, 01:19:48 PM

Title: Early season to late season
Post by: Billy74 on October 16, 2017, 01:19:48 PM: Unit 111 I saw one doe, saw fresh poop and tracks and heard multiple shots in the area in the AM. Not many in the PM. I feel good about there being deer in the area and just think I wasn't patient enough and just too damn clumsy. Also failed to get in well before daylight. So moving into late season I wanted to hunt that general area but wondered about tactics. Should I sit on an area an try to bring in bucks or creep the woods? Should I not make finding food a priority or will does still be their at the food and bucks coming to them.
And as for food in that area, it seems like food is so plentiful (at least early season) they wouldn't have a need to leave their general area. What are deer mainly eating in that area?

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Title: Re: Early season to late season
Post by: vandeman17 on October 16, 2017, 01:27:39 PM: try to locate a travel route that goes between feeding and bedding. If you can find there, sit on it with the wind in your face. Patience and they will show up.
Title: Re: Early season to late season
Post by: Billy74 on October 16, 2017, 01:59:21 PM: Quote from: vandeman17 on October 16, 2017, 01:27:39 PM
try to locate a travel route that goes between feeding and bedding. If you can find there, sit on it with the wind in your face. Patience and they will show up.
That's why I asked about what they are feeding on. There are some big meadows but mostly brown grass now used for cow grazing and tons of foot and truck traffic there. Seems like the woods are full of browse and finding a consistent A-B path to sit on seems tough.

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Title: Re: Early season to late season
Post by: vandeman17 on October 16, 2017, 02:06:10 PM: Quote from: Billy74 on October 16, 2017, 01:59:21 PM
Quote from: vandeman17 on October 16, 2017, 01:27:39 PM
try to locate a travel route that goes between feeding and bedding. If you can find there, sit on it with the wind in your face. Patience and they will show up.
That's why I asked about what they are feeding on. There are some big meadows but mostly brown grass now used for cow grazing and tons of foot and truck traffic there. Seems like the woods are full of browse and finding a consistent A-B path to sit on seems tough.

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I can't tell you what they are feeding on without seeing the area and their travel routes. Unless it is an ag field, for the most part when I see feed it doesn't refer to a specific food but more an area with feed and bedding is an area with protection or cover. In the late season, there should be snow which will help show you where they are traveling.