Where Are The Whitetail Deer?Written by David Selman, Tracker-Outdoors.com
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Another factor that can reduce deer traffic to your permanent stand locations, feeders and food plots is human traffic. By late summer, it is important that your trips to stand locations be limited and that when you do visit these locations, it is important to reduce human scent left behind. If you are visiting your stands and feeders just to check for fresh deer sign, stop. Trust your stand location choices, fill your feeders and work food plots early enough that your present is no longer required long before season opens and it is time to hunt. Repeated trips will inevitably leave behind human scent and prevent deer from visiting. Your best chances of a successful deer hunting stand are those less visited by you hunter. If you do visit your stand locations before your early season hunts, take care to use quality scent elimination products and strategies. It is a good idea to use different routes to and from your hunting areas before during and after hunting season. The point is that you don’t want a human scent trail caused by repeated visits to your stands.Changes to environment near your hunting area can also play a part in changing frequency that deer visit a stand location. These factors may include timber logging, field plowing, construction or another hunter creating a new stand location to close to your existing one. For example, we have two deer hunting stands that are close to a paper company property line. About a month before deer season, paper company decided to cut timber on adjacent land. Before timber started falling, these stands always showed good deer sign. When timber cutting started, even though it was about 100 yards away, deer traffic to these stands was greatly reduced. In this case, we also learned that logging would stop just before gun deer season opened. So we chose to leave stands in place and hunt other stand locations until deer return to this area. For successful deer hunts, my bet is on hunter who adjusts to both natural and man made conditions, uses sound judgment when choosing stand locations and makes necessary adjustments as environment changes with season.Article By Tracker Outdoors www.tracker-outdoors.com
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decide to spit or have a nature call. She finally tries and gets his attention. With surprise and somewhat shocked to find a doe of a different species than was expected. The stay, set quietly and watch trails leading into their clearing, bird’s, duck flying over going to Lake Whitney or other ponds, but no deer. Mean time David in a treestand by a pond has sensed a very faint sound. His senses tuned into his surroundings adrenaline builds, heart pounding a movement is spotted along one of trails. It’s a deer, silently he waits for a sign is it a buck or doe. Will deer show itself. Finally deer steps to his twenty-five yard marker. Just as he sets twenty-five yard pin on her and releases at that very same instance she spook’s, clean miss, arrow hits where she had been, David get down, goes and checks, no blood or sign of a hit . He say’s thanks in his mind for opportunity. Slowly he walks back to ancient oak to meet his daughter and finds her and friend mike waiting unlike predator that missed and spends his night hungry. The hunters go back to camp for a good meal and campfire, they talk of past hunts, experiences and lesson’s learned are shared , each sit quietly by fire, watching stars enjoying quality time shared. May your arrows be true,Article By Tracker Outdoors www.tracker-outdoors.com
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