Deer Hunting High Risk Areas When They Count
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By the time winter rolls around your drive for deer hunting the late season might look as desperate as a rut worn buck looking for something to eat! The pressure of unfilled tags burning holes in your pocket doesn’t help either. Deer and especially bucks are wore thin after the rut, they have busted countless hunters not using scent control, and most likely been shot at a couple times. In your mind deer hunting this period may seem pointless, but there is still hope. If you are in this situation read up…every bit of what’s about to be said will help!
If you have just ran a marathon and lost 30 percent of your body weight where would you be? Don’t lie to yourself either! For most, the honest answer would be the couch with a bag of cheeseballs…you can assume the same goes for a whitetail in the northern states or Midwest. The rut takes its toll on a buck, and you can use it to your advantage. The last month or so of your deer hunting season is arguably one of the best chances available to kill a mature buck.
A bucks first priority after the majority of does have been bred is finding food. A standing bean field, standing corn field, recently cut corn field, or field of reasonably sized brassica bulbs are all top picks for a mature bucks. For some lucky hunters, deer hunting during the late season stops here…but for many lacking the luxury of food plots or a big crop field a good late season tactic will require more work. Identifying the buck’s bedroom is the only other hope this late in the game. However finding a buck’s bedding area has to go further than just a thicket.
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