Editor’s Note: Dr. Grant Woods of Reeds Spring, Missouri, one of the nation’s leading white-tailed deer researchers, not only has studied whitetails for many years but also uses the latest scientific technology to track deer movement and learn why deer do what they do. I’ve asked Woods to tell our readers how to find the bucks of their dreams this year.

Because we’ve been able to put GPS collars on some deer, we’ve learned where deer stay during daylight hours. In one of my company’s research projects, we had an area that had several really-large food plots on the study site. We drew concentric circles, radiating 10 yards out from that food plot. Because we could study the deer’s movements for four hours, seven days a week, we learned that most of the deer stayed within 150-200 yards of that food plot the majority of the day (during hunting hours). At night, the deer spent most of their time in the food plots and even would lay down in the food plots. But from sun-up until sundown, the deer bedded-down, they played, and they milled around within 150-200 yards of those food plots. So, from this study, I’ve learned that if your land has a productive food-plot program with really-big food plots, most of the time the deer will stay close to those food plots.

To learn more about Dr. Grant Woods’ work and download free video and learn the latest research about deer, visit https://www.growingdeer.tv and https://www.facebook.com/GrowingDeer/.

John E. Phillips’ latest deer book “How to Hunt Deer Like a Pro: Volume II,” just was published this week on Amazon in print at https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BGSP3QPB/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tpbk_p4_i4

The Audible version should be available by mid-November. Since deer hunting and deer hunters are drastically changing each year, John interviewed some top deer hunters like Mark Drury, Dr. Larry Marchinton, Dr. Bob Sheppard, Pat Reeve, Gene Wensel, Cody Robbins, Ernie Calandrelli, Brian Murphy and Luke Brewster, who took the world’s largest whitetail, to learn their up-to-date techniques for successfully hunting deer and having more places to hunt. Also, John’s first book in that series “How to Hunt Deer Like a Pro” at http://amzn.to/YpoQHA for Kindle, print and Audible, includes other outstanding deer hunters. To see all of John E. Phillips’ books on hunting and fishing, visit www.amazon.com/author/johnephillips.

Tomorrow: Find Early-Season Bucks