well its a learned skill, but modern technology makes it much easier,
there are no free lunches, but if your willing to invest the time ,
and do the research and use the tools that are available,
you can sure greatly increase your odds of consistently being successful!
deer need to feel fairly safe and have access to food, they don,t want to be constantly disturbed, but they learn very quickly that most hunters (preditors)
in the case of humans tend to be rather noisy and tend to travel on trails, they learn to move into cover and areas humans avoid like wet areas,
areas bordered by deep creeks and thick brush or bramble thickets, etc.
If you want to get to be effective at hunting youll need too spent a good deal of time out in the field observing,
each area has its quirks and less productive areas, and you need to identify feed, bedding and travel corridors
use an ACCURATE GPS it is you best friend, get a book on what plants local deer prefer,
call and talk to game wardens and the local biologists,
buy a good topo map of the area, buy a decent cheap digital camera and if available fairly recently taken aerial photos of the area
go home and locate a lets say 3 mile square area and divide the area into a grid of lets say 1/8th mile sections,
and label each grid square, lets say with letters a-z vertically and 1-27 horizontally
now get a note book and your GPS and any time you see anything of interest,
use the note book n and make notes like,
location grid g7 tree stand saw several does pass on nov 12 at 7am
location grid h8 several white oaks heavily browsed of acorns nov 12 at 9 am
lets say deer, a tree stand, a scrape, road access a heavily used game trail, use the note book,
use that grid and GPS to pinpoint both its location and where it is on the grid and the time of day and date!
over a few months or ideally, years you'll build a very accurate map detailing where deer were seen,
where and when they travel,and what they feed on,you'll learn the best stand locations, bedding areas and game trails, and escape routes
Last edited by hardcastonly; 01-23-2020 at 08:46 AM.