Hunting Tips

If you were a deer, where would you go? What would

you do? What would you eat?

Answering these questions correctly can mean success or better

success and bigger bucks come next season.

Well, the good news is...you have all summer to find out these answers. And the number one way to do that, is spend time in the field. Drive in and around your hunting site. Talk to landowners and other hunters.

Trail cameras, as well as feeder activity can tell much about deer movement. Carefully consider all your facts you have collected next fall when setting your stand or blind.

Trails in and out of feeding areas may work work well for the evening, but not so good for mornings. Properly placed trail cameras will help you be at the right place at the right time for that big trophy.

Creating habitat (specifically feeding, cover, and bedding areas) will increase the deer’s interest in being there and increase your chances to take more and bigger deer. REMEMBER: A wary whitetail buck would rather walk a tree line or grown over fence row to his destination than an open meadow with no cover.

Whitetails tend to take the low ground,

creek bottoms and and dense underbrush

where they can travel undetected by hunters

and predators. By creating these cover areas

along with feeding areas (food plots) you will

draw more deer activity, which again brings

more deer hunting success.

While the vast majority of hunters may never

plant a fence row with shrubs or sow a field

with winter wheat and field corn, those seeking

to increase their hunting opportunities while putting something back into nature will find more success and increased personal satisfaction when the hunt is over.

Have you ever heard the old saying, You get out of it, what you put into it? Deer hunting, especially hunting trophy-size mature whitetail bucks works exactly that way. Your deer harvest or hunting results in 2010 will be in direct proportion to the amount of time and effort you put into making it the best season of your hunting career.

I believe this statement I once heard in the business community will

work in the field also. “Work like it is all up tp you, and prayer like it

is all up to God.”