Editor’s Note: Planting a green field doesn’t guarantee that you’ll take a buck on it. Some green fields produce high-quality bucks every season, while other green fields rarely if ever even yield a buck. What factors make for a great green field, and what makes a green field a waste of time and money?  To learn the answers to these questions, we’ve contacted Dr. Grant Woods (http://www.growingdeer.tv) of Reeds Spring, Missouri, an avid hunter and one of the nation’s leading deer researchers and animal-nutrition experts.

Don’t Hunt Does on Green Fields: “To help green fields produce bucks, don’t shoot does in a green field,” Woods emphasizes. “Many hunting clubs permit members to take does in green fields, because in most areas of the country, hunters need to bag a certain number of does off a property to keep the herd in balance. Green fields provide the easiest place to see and identify the does before you squeeze the trigger.”

But Dr. Woods warns, “If you shoot the does on a green field, the bucks will be much-less likely to utilize that green field during daylight hours. However, if you only harvest does in the woods away from the green fields, the green fields then will become sanctuaries where the bucks can feed more confidently.”

Let Bucks Feed in Green Fields: If you allow bucks to feed on the green fields, until the time you plan to hunt and harvest them, you’ll put less pressure on your green fields, increase the number of bucks you see and drastically increase your odds of deer being on your green fields. Some clubs manage their green fields by imposing the rule of, “You can’t hunt a green field, until after you take the number of does in the woods that the club expects you to harvest. Then, and only then can you hunt over a green field.” Using this rule, club members can harvest the number of does they need to take early in the season before the food supply decreases.

Make Green Fields Buck Sanctuaries: Green fields will become sanctuaries for the bucks, due to the lack of hunting on them. You’ll see more bucks, and you’ll have longer to study their body sizes and antler development on green fields managed under this system. You get to choose the older, bigger bucks you want to harvest.

Tomorrow: Create a Green Field Deer Will Use

How to Hunt and Take Big Buck Deer on Small Properties
In this book, you’ll hear from 14 hunters who either have gained permission or leased properties as small as six acres to as much as 250 acres, and how they consistently take older-age-class bucks off these little lands.

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Jim Crumley’s Secrets of Bowhunting Deer
Using a black magic marker and a gray work jumpsuit, Jim Crumley of Buchanan, Virginia, drastically changed the nature and purpose of hunting camouflage when he created the first sportsman’s camouflage – Trebark. Crumley’s love of bowhunting and his desire to be more invisible changed hunting clothing forever. 

In this hunting guide, he shares the wisdom that he’s learned throughout his lifetime about how to be a hunter, how to find a deer lease, how to scout for deer, and more.

Special features include how to:

• Have a magic 60 acres to hunt 
• Decide the best equipment to use
• Find deer year-round
• Locate land to hunt
• Know the best place to put your tree stand
• Get bucks within bow range

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How to Hunt Deer Like a Pro
How do you know if the land you hunt has a trophy deer on it? Wildlife manager Bob Zaiglin, of Uvalde, Texas and Jim Crumley, the father of modern-day hunting camouflage, tells you how to find out. GPS can make finding and taking that trophy buck easier. This hunting guide will teach you how to hunt big bucks where no one else can find them, how to call deer, and how to become versatile as a deer hunter, so that if one deer tactic doesn’t work, another one will.

In the chapter, “How to find Bucks at Scrape,” Dr. Keith Causey, retired professor of Wildlife Science at Auburn University, describes the best way to hunt a scrape.

Brad Harrison of Neosho, Missouri, is a nationally-known videographer, professional deer hunter and master at calling deer. Another master is Will Primos of Primos Game Calls. These two experts will tell the best deer calls and when to use them in this book.

And for over 20 years, Bo Pitman, lodge manager of White Oak Plantation, has been studying deer movement patterns. He explains what types of conditions are best for predicting deer movement.

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In Chapter 10, Jacob Lamar tells you his tactics for consistently taking older-age-class bucks on public lands in several states. Chapter 11, Bob Walker explains how to find places on public lands where you can hunt that 99 percent of the other hunters never have considered hunting. The Bonus Chapter with David Ramey tells you how, where, when and with what equipment to take big Kansas bucks on public lands by hunting in 100-degree weather when others won’t hunt.

Chapter 13, Mark Drury, his family and his guests take mature bucks every season by having more small places to hunt rather than one large property. Drury explains the strategy of having satellite farms to hunt that only may be 50-150 acres each or less. Chapter 15, Pat Reeve, who hunts far-northern states and Canada, says, “I don’t like hunting for mature bucks until the weather is 20 degrees or less.” Chapter 4, Dr. Larry Marchinton says that funnels are the most-reliable stand sites to hunt for big bucks and tells why. 

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