As u might know this it my second bow season, so I am still learning the ropes about all the stuff.Before I got a bow, I wouldn't start hunting till November in the rut. So I have no clue about early season.Most of you guys on here have nice green food plots that you will probably be hunting early into the season. Me on the other hand have nothing, the summer snuck up on me and before you know it school started, so I have no Food plots. My question is where do you think my best spot to put my stand for early bow season (oct 1). Should I put it in the hard woods with the best acorn trees or find a good trail? Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks guys!
Or off bedding areas. You have to be super carefull from what I have been told hunting them though. I have also been told field edges and like above trails coming off of food and water. I have stands in all these locations so far.
Will fields that have no agricultural crops (essentially just loaded with weeds and tall grass) be productive and/or will deer still congregate in these areas?
I have areas like that around here and they are bedding in them. Have you noticed any bedding activity in these areas?
Not that I have seen but it is very possible. I have one field with several cedars just growing in it and I know they are bedding in that under the cedars.
The ones that I have like that I am hunting the trails going in and out. Let me just make a note though. For some reason the deer on my property do not seem to change their patterns much if any durring the season except for durring the rut and even then they seem to stay pretty close to the same just a little more sparatic durring this time. My property is covered in bedding areas and I stay out of these areas year round too. This may be one reason they tend to stay the same. I have no major food soources on my property. Only two small food plots and a mineral station. I do however have a really good water source that runs right through the middle almost the entire length and a huge creek that borders that the water flows too. Both of my neighbors have the food.
I have the best luck around a food source like acorns in the early season. If the temps are up look at your water sources too.
Setting up near acorns is a good bet during early season. I'd try to hunt areas with little imact, places you can get to eaisly without alerting any deer. Save your best areas that are a ways into the timber for the rut.
I agree completely with the second part of this. We are lucky enough to have 15 acres of corn on our property this year and will be hunting the trails entering in and out of it during the early season. We know where the bigger bucks are bedding (tough timber and pines) but are holding off on going in there until the corn is harvested closer to the Rut.
I would set up on some white oaks close to a bucks bedding area or a water source for extra warm days. Good luck this season. Looking forward to hearing how you do.
