If you’re looking for a late-season buck, one of the best places to hunt is a simple blowdown area where wind and age have toppled a large tree, creating a buck hideout that’s often neglected by other hunters.
One of my favorite things to do once deer season is in full swing is to make an all day set in my treestand. Like the majority of hunters, I don't get as much time to do those kinds of sets due to working a full time job. That being said, at least a couple of times a year, I will take time off from my job to do just that. Some hunters will say that they can't sit that long without getting bored, and others may say that it's not necessary to sit that long to harvest a deer.
A great start to deer hunting 2017 from www.GrowingDeer.tv with these bow hunts. In this video, two hunts with back to back double does down on The Proving Grounds. On his deer hunt, Grant sees his first good buck of the season then gets 2 does into bow range. Watch as Daniel arrows 2 does in virtually the same spot! Then tips for calling deer from Grant and champion caller James Harrison.
When asking deer hunters when their favorite time of year to hunt occurs they will often say pre rut. Some even say that it is those few days around Halloween. This is mostly due to the fact that bucks are beginning to be more active in anticipation of the upcoming rut. One of the common methods of hunting this time of year is hunting scrapes, to be more specific, hunting scrape lines.
When lockdown brings hunting the Whitetail pre-rut scraping and chasing activity to a screeching halt you can do two things. Wait for it to end and activity to resume, or make things happen.
Deer hunting with GrowingDeer.tv: Missouri's deer season opens and the team gets busy bow hunting on The Proving Grounds. Grant hunts a tree that is dropping acorns. Raleigh is bow hunting over a food plot where a hit list buck has been showing up. Pops and Daniel hunt where there's a pattern of does coming in to feed on acorns and a food plot. Watch the hunts play out in this video! Stay tuned for an update on the bucks our Pro Staff are going to hunt
Deer hunters, Dr. Woods of GrowingDeer.tv shares 10 tips to quickly age bucks "on the hoof" in hunting situations or when studying trail camera images. See a great new technique to improve food plots and make quality minerals available to a deer herd in any state. The team also visits two properties in Missouri and Oklahoma to offer ideas to improve their hunting: native browse, glades, food plots, cover, crop rotations, and more.
Deer hunters, It's time to scout! The GrowingDeer.tv Team is scouting bucks in the food plots; Including our #1 hit list buck, Southpaw!
Deer hunters, using video of bucks in real hunting situations an expert from Boone & Crockett shares his tips on how to estimate a score of a deer's antlers.
Over the last two decades the game trail camera has no doubt become the biggest tool in a hunters arsenal when it comes to scouting whitetail deer. It has become so popular in fact, that a game camera could easily be the equivalent to a cell phone in today's world, because pretty much everyone has one.
