Late season tips
 

January 11 to 14

Southern Missouri

First post cuz I am icthin to get a deer :)

How would you hunt this? Had no time to scout but local farmer tells me deer are everywhere :)

RE: Late season tips
 

I'd look for a major creek crossing and hope I got lucky as he!! with only 4 days to hunt and no scouting.

RE: Late season tips
 

Doany of the surrounding fields have any cut corn or standing corn? If so, I'd start walking the edges of the woods leading to those looking for heavily used trails entering the fields -- preferably near an inside corner if possible somewhere.

RE: Late season tips
 

As a matter of fact the fields to the left are standing dead corn.

I had two plans:

1. Walk into the wind near the creek, find a crossing and walk back to hang a stand. Just go to it each day.

2. Hang a stand each day near fields inside the woodline and sit until dark.

RE: Late season tips
 

My thoughts exactly.

Start on the edge and work your way back in if they don't show up before dark. Just don't walk thru the whole woods "SCOUTING" the first day there. You'll run all of the deer out of the woods.

RE: Late season tips
 

... and one BIG tip, which John sorta alluded to above: Don't hunt a spot unless the wind is in your favor, period. If it means hunting the OTHER side of the woods if the wind is wrong, do it. Sitting a spot even if you expect to see deer coming to a food source when the wind is blowing from your stand to their beds is fruitless; you'll never see the deer, and have wasted the evening. What's worse, is you'll have ruined the other three days as well.

RE: Late season tips
 

Yup I am with you guys and the wind, it will determine where I hunt :)

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RE: Late season tips
 

That finger of woods on the left side may have some good trails between the two fields...

RE: Late season tips
 

Not only what Greg stated above, but also look for very good cover that the deer/Big Bucks are possibly using to get to and from the food plots...if any. Good luck

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That late, don't drag 'em outby the antlers!! don't ask me how I know...[:@]

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Happened to me in 1998, draggin a little six point from a corp of engineers property in South Carolina. I pulled him up a little ditch and the left antler popped right off :(