Does anyone have some good September whitetail hunting tips? First time hunting this early in the year. Hunting public ground in KY and not seeing anything.
Concentrate on feeding patterns, right now, I would say they are still on there usual evening feeding patterns... watch your field edges... That's the best advice I can give, being this is my first year hunting in Sept also.
Find a patch of trees dropping acorns. They are dropping like crazy now and the deer love em. Always play the wind.
I'd shy away from field edges now as the beans begin to brown up. In our area the acorns are beginning to fall, and that's where I'd be concentrating. Even if the deer stick to feeding in the fields, often times they will stage inside the woods up on the acorn flats waiting for dark.
Well I have been in woods with acorns and persimmons but still no movement. We have seen them in bean fields while driving around but those fields aren't on the public property. There is a natural mineral lick where we are that is covered in prints but not seeing the deer there while hunting. Definitely not what I'm used to at home in October. Gonna keep at it though. Maybe I will get lucky.
All the above and start freezing jugs of water to stuff in the cavity during transport. The weather has been quite warm.
got back from the lake today,put the boat up and drove out to pull my cam... dead batterys zero deer, almost 90 degrees think i am going back to the lake. acorns are falling here all the beans and corn are brown and deer have change there pattern here,just like they do every year it seems. I will add my boat packed the mail at the lake, and did not sink or crash.and thats a good weekend for me.
Well I'm certainly not an expert by any means, but I would say you aren't close enough to the bedding area. If you can get on a good food source close to bedding, and get in there without blowing them all out.....they should be there.
My advice would be to not blow an otherwise great stand location in Sept......by hunting it in all but ideal situations in Sept.. Good luck. Translation....Stay the heck out of known buck bedding areas in the AM's. And, as always, play the wind. If you have to sit in your tree for a while in the PM's.....understand you dealt the hand. Play it, wisely. Stay put.
Oak flats or area's with lots of oaks that are in close proximity to thickets. Look for rub lines coming out of the thickets into the oaks,set up down wind and as close to the thicket as you dare with out blowing them out.
