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[mikepoulson]

In my 38 years experience, on gamelands most hunters are path beaters. Now go find the spot where you think how am I going to get a deer out of here?

[jameshumbob]

Josh and Dan, the best hunts I've had was in a misty rain. Happy Father's Day fellas, keep up the good work and videos, we greatly appreciate it.

[troymcdonald]

The Biggest buck taken on a military base that i use to hunt was a 12point and was taken right outside the Biggest camping area "were you are Not Allowed to Hunt" was taken between 12-1pm! People said he lived in an thick area in the No Hunting/ camping area & and someone spooked him Out ! I had seen him before laying under a tree as i was eating lunch just inside the No Hunt zone like he knew what the bounderies were for the No Hunt zone!

[francisconti]

Great discussion! 40 yrs w/wild whitetail, 20+ as lineage buddy hip to shoulder through their lives, yes sunrise is bedding time. 3-4 hr ruminate, snooze..10'ish is time to eat more, lovkng the shadows when can, back to rest till eat again, their "social business hours" begin after "first" feeding of their day as they see it, @ lowering to setting sun, bedding for dark, observing others as ruminate/perhaps sleeping some more, dealing with social interactions, sleep, ruminate, eat, cycleing eating, ruminating/rest till sunrise bedding..
What my deer do, we have a solid routine, we can always find each other.. deer like consistency..survival tactic to know what isn't going according to routine!

[htschad]

My neighbor up in the big woods of PA shot a tagged buck that was 91/2 years old and it was first tagged 14 miles away. It was shot on public land quite the buck !

[maniachill]

I live on 44 acres along a river in Maine. I have multiple, permanent stands in trees with roofs on them. Sleep all night in a stand the night before opening day.
Magical

[Deerslayer]

I hunt Ohio and Indiana. I won't hunt a morning until October 20-25. Good information guys!
Also, we had a buck make it to 11.5 years old. My son named him Rhino when he was 3 years old just like the buck. Last pic was summer of 2020 at age 11. He was a legend.

[henryjones]

Wind direction and velocity are interesting factors. One situation in my hunts in Texas regions where prevailing winds were dominant: I bow hunted for a week with little or no deer action. The four hours, or so, where there was a lull in wind (dead calm) the deer appeared everywhere. After wind commenced, the deer disappeared. Just saying. Also still hunting in heavy wind, allowed one to walk upon bedded deer.

[SheepdogConservation]

I totally agree that does will strategically drop and calf those fawns near humans/buildings if they have the option! I'll go one further to say that if the fawn is a buck, they remember this spot and most check it heavily during the rut!! I don't have collars but 7+yrs of trail cams so it is pretty much a science at this point!

[WILDEATS]

Do you have a link to the study? I would like to see the breakdown of data. Thanks!

[loganmaddocks]

I can attest to the last point. The only deer I took only public land was during gun season and I was a mile back. Ran in to a couple guys who were also hunting and said they jumped a doe near the road but that was it. However, they never went off the main trail really and that was the difference.

[jakemitchell]

The Deer Program at Mississippi State recently concluded a multi-year study using collard deer, with an emphasis on bucks. I've been in correspondence with the two primary faculty members in charge. The challenge in reaching any sort of conclusions is the vastness of the data. Sometimes making sense of the data in any comprehensive study like this can take many years. However, one point between the two projects really stands out: In the MSU study there were several/many bucks that traveled MUCH farther from "home" than what the PA study seems to suggest. If memory serves, there was one buck that traveled something like 100 miles during the year. They tracked him walking through towns, swimming the MS River into LA or AR, then back to his home range in the MS Delta. However - as far as I can tell - the most prominent buck characteristic was moving and hiding when deer season starts. I can't wait for the findings to be published. I think The Hunting Public did an interview with the two primary researchers.

[chrishenicke]

I would be interested to see a difference from state to state. I was a guide for yrs, I can tell you from experience that during deer season the deer will pattern the hunters, especially when hunting same areas week to week. The smarter more mature animals were there when we weren’t. I mean it just makes sense… That’s why the rut is such a big deal, it makes it possible for mediocre hunters to kill a trophy.

[stefanosoderi]

3 of the biggest deer I’ve seen was late October, 2 at 9am one at dusk and they all were in high wind, the wind blowing doesn’t give them a direct direction where trouble could come from so there on there feet

[kellymiller]

I hunted Minnesota for 35 years archery and killed or had chances between 10 am and 2 pm than any other time period. I had some monsters come within 20 yards but sometimes something would go wrong. I loved it when hunters would go for lunch. Never had much luck in wind and when I did they were very skittish. Halloween day was my favorite day to archery. I would never leave my stand on that day and had the most action bar none no matter what the weather was like.

[birddog]

I love opening morning hunting. I hunt below bedding areas. I just wait for the other hunters to run the deer to me. Sometimes I zigzag caution type along ridges the evening before opening day. knowing a hunter will follow it and drive the deer to me. Hunt smarter not earlier.

[SH-lbnu]

I've always found Deer move in the wind in the open and bed low spots with small cover and easy exits

[CoyoteDeath]

I shot one of them 8 years ago when i was 6 and was featured in a Deer and Deer Hunting article for it, look up Paul Thoburn shoots collared white tail deer

[micon]

From decades of hunting same 150acres in Indiana, after October 20th on I do jump quite a few deer walking to any stand in mornings but I've seen more bucks between 830am-10am than any other time. Half my bucks were in the AM and half in PM

[stevendrake]

It isnt the most optimal way. But hunting mornings is more for me vs actually hunting.

Being realistic i know i can go out at 4 to a deer stand on my property and get a deer almost any evening.

But. Theres just something magical about mornings for me, seeing the world come alive. Hunting mornigs for me is like a drug.

The majority of my big bucks have been around the 8am-10am time frame.

Can confirm though where i hunt. Early bow season there are deer everywhere. When i go out first day of gun season its a ghost town untill last light. Its a massive change.