Remnard

Snow is an excellent time to do some walking. (get some snowshoes)Deer stand out well in the white stuff. Back track some trails and see where they are feeding and where they are bedding. Pay attention to the terrain. Keep your eyes open and do a lot of glassing. If you jump them out of their beds, back off and get in there early morning and wait them out. Or get down wind of their bedding area in the afternoon and wait for them to start moving.

The food sources won't change much this time of year since there aren't many choices. If you have an acorn crop hunt the oak flats. Pay attention to species as they will walk past 20 acres of red oaks to find a ggod crop of white oak acorns. Its either that or browse, small saplings and branch ends.

Meadow grasses won't be pawed at again til next spring.(unless you have some brassica planted) It's not worth their energy to dig through the snow as there is not much nutritional content in grass, mostly Lignin(fiber) and all the forbs, or herbaceous perennialshave literally melted with the frosts. When you see deer feeding in a field, they are typically not eating grass, but the weeds or forbs growing with the grases. Except for very young grass and some rye's its really not a big deer food, and the protein content is lacking.

Get out there and watch them, you'll figure them out. They are out there, go find them. So what if you jump them. If you watch they'll run 50 or 100 yards and stop. They will come back, albeit down wind if they can circle you. Funny thing about deer, if they are running they can't hear you running. If you jump them run down wind of them and hide behind a tree. Wait a while and see what happens. If they were bedded they want to go back to bed. They will either move off a short distance and lay down or try to come back.