Riflescopes and Scope Accessories

Being able to properly pick your hunting location is one of the most important factors in deer hunting. It’s the difference between coming home from the hunt with a trophy rack and deer meat for the freezer or driving home alone and eating a TV dinner. It doesn’t matter how good you are at shooting, you won’t have a very successful hunt if there are no deer where you’re hunting. So here are some deer hunting tips that will help you find the ideal place. Knowledge of deer behavior and their movement patterns is essential when you begin to hone in on locations. Deer will feel the safest in low light, and during the day, as well as the late night, they’ll be resting. They typically leave their resting areas quite late in the afternoon and roam around to find food. Once they’ve had their fill, they’ll go back to where they rest during the day and sleep there. Find out where you can settle down to hunt at least two weeks prior to the beginning of your hunt. You need to know the area you hunt in. Find out where the deer move the most, and where the largest bucks are located. Practice sitting in deer stands, blinds or any other hunting location, as you would when actually hunting, so that you can watch the deer and their movement patterns. Look for deer signs in the middle of the day. The deer themselves will give you the best deer hunting tips. Find their travel trails and tracks. Pay attention to the size, number, and direction of the tracks, all of which give information on the movement patterns of the deer. While bucks sometimes use the doe’s trails as well, they’ll often venture out on their own. You might find buck trails that run parallel to the doe trails or cross them. Try to find the scrapes — the spots where bucks scratch against the ground or brush. In the weeks coming up to the rutting season, you’ll see a lot of scraping, but once they start, you’ll stop seeing the scrapes. And locate the rubs — the areas on trees or posts where bucks either rub the velvet off their budding antlers or mark their territory when rutting. If you see a bunch of rubs within 100 yards of each other, you could have an ideal spot. You’ll usually find these tree markings facing the direction where the buck has come from, so take note of this direction also, as you’ll be able to locate the origin of the bucks’ travel more accurately. Examine the area for bedding spots and take note of the size.

There is so much more to choosing where you will hunt deer than going out in the morning to pick your stand. Knowing your area in advance will pay off with big bucks!

If you want to learn more deer hunting tips that can help you land the large bucks that get you trophy racks, go to www.Deer-HuntingTips.com and have a better hunting season than you’ve had in years.

Filed under: Rifles and Shotguns on November 8th, 2009