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i am a fairly new bowhunter and i need some ideas. i have three bucks by my parents house 2 are decent maybe 160 but one has to score over 200. well the problem i have is that they follow a creek but i only have permision to hunt a small portion of it. i also do not see them daily maybe twice a month. but when they are around it is in the same area. is there any legal way to get them to routinly return to this area without food plots. if it helps i live in southeast iowa.

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I think I better have a look!;)I don't know of anything besides chaining up a doe in heat! You'd have to be in the right place at the right time and possibly try a decoy.

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decoys are illegal in iowa

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Very likely they are there more often than you know, perhaps after dark. Anything you do in the area may affect when they go there, perhaps negatively!!! I'd suggest instead doing it the old fashion way.. HUNT THEM! But maybe using some newer tools.

1. Get a couple trail cams to try and pattern when they are in that location.
2. Get a hunt recorder to record all of the conditions under which you see these deer in that location:
http://www.huntrecorder.com/ (Zano is a great guy!)
3. Find out WHY they go there. Cover? Food? Does?

Put all that together and perhaps by next season you will be able to predict when you'll see them there!

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Feeders work great in the summer and early fall when deer are in that mode. i have seen deer come running to feeders after they cycle. just be sure it's leagle in your area,and don't use one if you think it will grow legs!! good luck!!

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Just hunt them. You do need to worry about them being there early before dawn and after dark. You will push them out of there. You could always wait until it gets light out to get into you stand to make sure your not cgasing them away. Otherwise you should have no problem with you scent if it's near the house where people frequent anyway.

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try mock scrapes ( havent worked well with me but others have had great success) also use the magic grunt ( I reccommend knight and hales EZ grunter plus)