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Comments Off on Different Tactics to Take Deer Day 5: Build Trails Through Thick Cover for Deer
Deer Hunting, Hunting Advice
Editor’s Note: You can open-up more land and possibly take bigger bucks on the property you hunt by installing trails – stalking lanes – in young pine plantations – 2- to 15 years old. When landowners first plant pines, vegetation will grow up thick and lush, providing plenty of food and habitat
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Comments Off on Different Tactics to Take Deer Day 4: Create Deer Hidey Holes
Deer Hunting, Hunting Advice
Editor’s Note: Dr. Grant Woods, longtime, well-known deer biologist, likes to plant small patches of green forage where a deer can get several mouths full of food, before the animal moves on to a major green field or an agricultural crop. To create a patch, Woods uses a backpack leaf blower or a rake to …
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Comments Off on Different Tactics to Take Deer Day 3: Choose Places for Deer Hidey Holes
Deer Hunting, Hunting Advice
Editor’s Note: Today’s modern techniques have enabled deer hunters to use drones and maps to pinpoint ideal spots to create small deer hidey-holes. “You can plant a green field hidey-hole 2 weeks before bow season and still have a great place to deer hunt,” says Dr. Grant Woods, a nationally-known wildlife
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Comments Off on Different Tactics to Take Deer Day 2: Make a Deer Come to You
Bowhunting, Deer Hunting
Editor’s Note: Have you ever considered making deer change their routes and instead come to you? Many hunters do this successfully to take deer by using the information they learn from their trail cameras. Trail cameras have become one of the bowhunter’s best friends to see where deer are moving at day and night,
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Comments Off on Different Tactics to Take Deer Day 1: Use Your Lawnmower and Weed Eater for Deer
Bowhunting, Deer Hunting
Editor’s Note” “My grandmother had a problem,” Jamie Jensen informed me. “The deer were eating her garden, primarily the peas and the beans, but also not culling the corn and some other vegetables. I set-up a trail camera along a deer trail leading from a briar and honeysuckle thicket about 20 yards into the
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