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";s:4:"text";s:28332:"Deer hunters have truly taken advantage of food plots and agricultural grounds—being the best … Most guys will set until 10 am then have breakfast at the local diner, then take a nice nap before heading back out at 3 pm. Most ponds offer thick cover for bedding, multiple food sources, are overlooked by other hunters, and, of course, offer a reliable water source.” Bow Hunting December 30th. It’s tough to find the vitals on a deer at 30 yards with a 9-power scope. © Union Sportsmen's Alliance - Uniting the Union Community for Conservation.All rights reserved. A shotgun loaded with buckshot is hard to beat, but buckshot does have its drawbacks. The farther away from travel corridors the better, but don’t hesitate to get within 10 yards, even less, if you don’t have a choice. Hunting the North Country is different than any other kind of whitetail deer hunting. Some of the best bucks I’ve taken have walked in front of me between 11 am -2 pm. #bowhunting #deerhunting #whitetaildeerhunting #huntingSee below for a list of the gear I use in my videos. Every year I find piles of shed Antlers in areas you are sure there can’t be a deer left standing. This property contains the big 3, water, food, and cover to keep and grow the area whitetails and gives you the opportunity to create your hunting haven. And Found some very Fresh deer Sign. Once you get into a thicket, you have to find obvious travel routes and not-so-obvious trails. If you haven’t gotten the chance to hunt elk, there are far too many affordable, over-the-counter hunts available to miss out on. Hunting from treestands, ground blinds, and still hunting are all good tactics in anything but heavy snow. Although the importance of using deer screening cover … Diefenbach found that even on public land, where hunter density is very high, deer move to thick, unapproachable (based on wind and habitat) cover. While whitetails can survive on natural foods found along the edges of thick timber stands, their populations explode when the edge cover is nutrient-rich cropland rather than sagebrush and native browse. (In semi-open country even habit-minded flagtails don’t … Craig Bell spends his day hiking around finding sheds. Second, the cover keeps you out of sight when going to and from your stands. However there are some techniques that can help. Telemetry studies conducted throughout North America indicate that whitetails do not abandon their core range during hunting season. Deer will tend to become like big rabbits this time of year. So what do you shoot? Learning to connect an animal’s basic survival needs to food, water and cover can take months of … Thank you. Whitetails don’t always move with the wind in their face, sometimes they’ll travel hard transitions from thick cover and open terrain with a 45-degree crosswind. Where, When, and How. Although that is the more comfortable way of hunting, I often sit on my knees. Besides beds, The Hunting Public crew likes to key in on water. I’ve cut paths through thick cover with some openings or shooting lanes, especially for bowhunting. Also, hunt when others do not. Still-Hunting for Thick Cover Whitetails Most hunters stay far away from the thickest cover, but that is where the biggest bucks spend most of their time. Third, it provides a sense of security that deer will seek when pressured in other areas. No shots in a 5-acre area will hold plenty of deer. Hunt Elk, Kill more whitetails. Work the cover thoroughly — zigzagging, stopping, starting, varying your pace, backtracking, retracing steps, even circling around and coming back from other directions. A few saplings in front of me provided me with a little extra cover to break up my outline. 2. Also, hunt when others do not. Odds are they won’t, at least not a mature buck with a few seasons under his belt. Instead, they have got nocturnal, diving head-first into places few hunters dare go and venturing out to feed only under the veil of darkness. Open-country whitetails offer exciting bowhunts in the Dakotas, Nebraska, eastern Colorado and other places with little tree cover. To recap, Hunt thick cover, Hunt where others aren’t firing, and hunt all day. They won’t move a lot and will sit still and let you walk right by them. Hunting thick pines can be tough! Search your maps for the places whitetails will receive the least amount of pressure, that’s where you’ll want to be also—thick, nasty cover, protected private ground, areas difficult for humans to access (but where whitetails will have no problem). Focus on Thick Cover. Your personal data will be used to support your experience throughout this website, to manage access to your account, and for other purposes described in our privacy policy. Snow that’s crunchy or squeaks when you walk is not. Remember deer won’t cover a lot of ground at this stage. Don’t worry about hunting heavy sign. But it can be rewarding to tag a mature buck when you outsmart the buck and the masses. Still, it can be open enough to stand up and walk, but not always. So how do they survive? For still-hunting through thick cover, where shots will be off-hand and close, it can’t be beat. Near a wildlife food patch or forest opening is a good place for such a manmade thicket. Then, hang or … During this day and age, it seems as if we’ve got deer hunting figured out. When hunting from the ground, many people bring chairs or stools. Hunting in mountainous terrain also presents another level of intricacy that food-plot whitetailers don’t deal with: thermals and swirling winds caused by rugged topography. It’s hardly similar to the wide-open woods you are used to hunting—a long shot might be 20 yards. At least that’s how it seems to be on the television. As long as you sit still and stay quiet, you’ll be invisible to any deer that passes within range. Even a buck with a gnarly crown on his head can slip through dense briers, thick young trees and willow thickets. I’ve my self hunted land that was in the thick cover and were shooting is rarely heard. The cover and food that a thicket creates will hold and attract mature whitetails season after season. Outdoor Passion. Puffy, dry snow is best for this method. He has worked hard in creating his company Shed Heads and is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to big game animals. Whether you scout early or start looking after opening day, the only way to find a good spot is to pull on some brush pants, a pair of leather gloves and a canvas jacket and plow head-first into the cover. Stalking on the ground with snow still falling helps cover your movements. Numerous studies have shown exactly that. High-pressure areas are hard to hunt. As a general rule, you should access your spots in the morning from below. Hunting High Pressure Areas for Whitetails. Any time you hunt thick cover, it’s wise to wear lots of blaze orange, even if your game laws don’t require it. First, the foliage provides browse to hold and feed deer. You have to focus on thick cover, get in tight with the deer, and hunt where others do not. A better choice might be a scoped shotgun loaded with slugs. Navigating these unpredictable scent streams is crucial in the big woods. Common Purpose. So we have a three-part strategy. These discoveries come through scouting and spending time on the land. I hunt public land every year and follow the same steps that you are sharing. Heavy sign is what brings in other hunters, and pushes deer out. Hunt where others do not, such as thick cover and where you hear less or no shots. To the South of me lay a big weed-patch thicket. In a nutshell, if it looks too thick for a rabbit to squeeze through, it’s probably exactly the type of cover that whitetails favor. Missouri Whitetails - Your Missouri Hunting Resource. Areas of thick cover serve four purposes to the deer hunter and all of them are important. Union Skills. In a nutshell, if it looks too thick for a rabbit to squeeze through, it’s probably exactly the type of cover that whitetails favor. A properly matched gun and load will give you more range than you’ll need, and a slug has enough punch to knock down any deer at close range. Secluded Wooded Cover. You are the guy who needs to sit all day, and hunt of the wall places. Good luck! Whitetails will always be the focus of my hunting, but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t already looking forward to heading west again soon. It also supplies heightened taste and an instinctual need whitetails have for the highest nutritional intake for their time feeding. Simple trail-watching is another proven whitetail technique, especially during November when bucks are on the prowl. Whether you hunt Southern pine plantations, Heartland farm country, Western river bottoms or the big woods of the North, pressured bucks have one thing in common: They know where to hide to avoid hunters. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Site Design by DG. Place stands in between bedding and feeding areas and you’ll have a wall-hanger in no time. How to Choose a Rifle for Hunting Whitetail Deer in Thick Cover (Plus Seven Recommendations from Field & Stream) By Dave Hurteau. Please take time to review the Rules Page. Bucks simply hunker down, find the thickest cover possible, and limit their movements to nighttime or the fringes of daylight. That means hunting downwind of the areas you’re expecting the deer to wind up. That's why you have to bird-dog it and … Harvesting Elk with Recurve on Horseback with Patrick Wallschlaeger. Deer will wait out a snowstorm in thick cover but then resume their usual activities. Some are already converted to steaks, roasts and burger, but plenty are still out there, just not where you happen to be looking. That way, they know exactly where to go once the deer figure out the game. … And even if a buck does see you, it will be too late because thick cover is the last place any deer expects to see a hunter. Some places have all the cover needed naturally, but for most properties cover is often the crucial ingredient lacking to hold whitetails on a given tract of land. Bucks that causally pranced through fields and strolled through open woods during daylight hours have vanished. Couple this with a buck’s weakened, rut-ravaged body and it’s easy to see why hunting the post-rut is the most … GYT90’s crude soybean oil content is thick enough to cover the corn kernels with a glaze and acts as an attractant enhancer from its soybean aroma. It’s the same old story, you bow Hunt hard early, and come gun-season, out comes the Orange Army! Surprisingly, however, many hunters continue to hunt open country with the expectation that if they sit long enough, a buck just might come walking by. During this time, wary bucks tend to travel using low spots like draws, creek … Most guys will set until 10 am then have breakfast at the local diner, then take a nice nap before heading back out … Not only will you attract … Shots fired everywhere, people everywhere and deer dying one by one. I have plenty of success while hunting big deer in those areas coming out to my stand at 12 to 3 o’clock. Castroville Resident Embarks on Canadian Waterfowl Hunt on Brotherhood Outdoors TV Season Premiere, USA’s 3rd Annual Arizona State BCTC Sporting Clays Shoot, USA’s 10th Annual Central Florida Sporting Clays Shoot, USA’s Nashville Area Sporting Clays Shoot, Roofers Union Member of 50 Years Takes on the Lone Star State on Brotherhood Outdoors. So how do you get to them? First, you have to identify those places that qualify as escape cover. The older a buck becomes the thicker and more reclusive and secure the type of cover he often seems to seek. I agree with everything you say 100%. Whereas a buck normally would use a drainage or thin line of timber to travel from one patch of cover to another, at the peak of the rut that same buck may cut straight through the short cut. Sometimes it doesn’t mean public land. 3. A tree stand is out of the question, so plan on sitting on the ground 20 or 30 yards away from the trail. They also thrive in and around the new subdivisions springing up all over the foothills and valleys of the West, where fresh landscaping and lawns and a consistent … An example of this would be a transition of cattails to open terrain. It provides thicket cover at the edge of a field while releasing the best edge trees from … When you do find good sign, look for a place to sit. Switchgrass is a great and fast way to create visual barriers for better hunting and for more isolation that deer like. Not one single shot was fired there all day. Creating a weed free seed bed is key to establishing switchgrass, and once established, a stand of switchgrass can last a hunter many years. Dismiss Notice; Old Indian Trick (Cover Scent) Discussion in 'Whitetails General' started by Grumpy, Oct 22, 2010. A good way to create some additional distance is to hack out some shooting lanes with a brush axe or even a chain saw. August 1, 2005. Wise hunters plan well ahead of the season and do plenty of scouting in advance of opening day. It's not necessarily more effective most of the time, but then again, there are days when it's the best expediency, especially if I'm hunting where I don't have stands up, or there's not an abundance of suitable stand trees in the right places for a climber. The nice thing about creating a small thicket is that it doesn’t take a lot of money or equipment. Even a buck with a gnarly crown on his head can slip through dense briers, thick young trees and willow thickets. Let these others push deer to you. *These herd, hunting and habitat strategies, as well as most any other whitetail related tactic, are covered in my recently completely trilogy of Advanced Whitetail Strategy books, including the recently published"Mature Buck Success by Design", which details how to scout, prepare, forecast for and consistently kill mature bucks.. Here are the six best deer hunting rifles for the big woods. Skip lunch break and pack it in with You. Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next > Oct 22, 2010 #1 . First, pay close attention to shots fired and locations. They even like using and hiding inside dense cover, especially during periods … Please call us at 866-445-4128. Depending on the situation, I still enjoy carrying my .30-30 in pursuit of whitetails. Right now is the optimal time of the year to conduct habitat improvements on your deer hunting property… Advantages from Creating Thickets for Whitetail Hunting. So we have a three-part strategy. Hunt where others do not, such as thick cover and where you hear less or no shots. Deer move away from gun-hunted areas, go into thick cover and move a lot less. Deer will seek the easiest path of travel if they feel secure. So how do you get to them? Hunting Big Woods Whitetails by Steve Sherk article copyright. “Don’t overlook ponds. Time to move to that spot. We are glad to see you’re interested in learning more about the USA staff, and we look forward to welcoming you as a member or helping you make the most of your USA membership. It can also be used as a thick base of cover when trying to create bedding on your hunting grounds. Early in the day, thermals should be pulling downhill, masking your approach. Trail watching is best practiced in thick cover which is known to harbor whitetails. Grumpy … Ponds offer great habitat diversity and typically have everything a deer needs, all within a small area. Depending on the circumstances, sometimes I bowhunt whitetails from the ground. The “edge” or “ecotone” between two cover types is really most important, but anywhere you can create thick, protective shelter the more living space you’ll have for your whitetails. Its effective range is limited to about 40 yards and the pellets can lose a fair amount of energy if they have to bust through vines and tree branches. If you maintain patches of half-cut cover, they are more likely to bed within the stand and be more available for hunting. Don’t get too crazy—deer like that cover because it’s thick. An interesting thing takes place in the days following the deer season opener. Even a scoped rifle will work, but make certain your scope is screwed down to the lowest magnification possible. Sometimes deer leave immediately upon the walker's appearance on their turf. … At times, I must stretch to avoid being in a lot of pain, but sitting on my knees makes me disappear into my surroundings better than … If you’ve been hunting your property for years, you already have a good idea of where the thick cover is and of the small areas that perennially hold bucks due to terrain features that either concentrate their movement (like creek crossings between steep banks) or hold them (like mountain bowls). Breaking down the world into hunting-size pieces is a process of personal discovery that’s within reach of anyone willing to learn, identify and understand an animal’s behavior and patterns. Deer corn, enhanced with GYT90’s soybean oil based nutrition and 90+ mineral supplement means that … You’d be surprised. Need faster shipping? Thirdly, hunt how others do not. For an evening hunt, … Whitetails take cover in whatever they find in open landscapes. You have to focus on thick cover, get in tight with the deer, and hunt where others do not. Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. Anywhere that hunting pressure is heavy, you will need to adjust accordingly. They move around a bit during the day (aha, they are not totally nocturnal even in the gun season), but the areas they spend time in are areas so remote and so thick … All the shots came from different areas, except for one! I’m not describing cutting down large trees, but clearing the brush and vines between and below some of the trees. Shortcuts are void areas such as an open pasture between two patches of doe-rich woods or cover. Hunting on quick pass-thru deer travel corridors in the woods during the evening hours or on the down wind side of buck bedding areas when the sun rises, can be much safer sits. Hunting deer from the ground isn’t a new … In fact, in several instances, hunters walked within yards of bucks bedded down in super-thick cover. While hunting a large piece of public land during the gun opener, I heard 200 shots by 12 pm. Old country cemeteries are classic shortcuts. I have also used half-cutting as a forest edge management technique. Again, the animals want to be wherever you (and other hunters) are not. (Many states don’t during special muzzleloader seasons.) First, you have to identify those places that qualify as escape cover. Fourth, when the cover is thick, the deer aren’t in visual contact as … More often, whitetails will put their chins on the ground and stay put. Swap your treestand for a ghillie suit and binoculars to accept the challenges of spot-and-stalk bowhunting. I know what you’re probably thinking: Whitetails can swim deep streams, climb steep banks, jump gullies and pass through thick cover like a cottontail rabbit. Surprisingly, dense cover is often super-thick only on the outside edges where sunlight touches the plants. 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