Wanted: Late season hunting tips
 

We have a late bow season here in Iowa (dec20-jan10). I waited out early season for a good buck and was disappointed. I have been out every day since the late season began to find a deer to take, but can't seem to have any luck. Temps are expected to be in the 30's with just a tad of snow on the ground. Please help me out. I'm looking for some tips on technique and locations deer may be at this time during the season. Also, does a grunt call prove any effectiveness during this time of the year?

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Id try to spend as much time as i can around food. After the rut, they will be eating lots to keep up body temps, and regain energy lost during the rut. If you can find picked corn or bean fields, they would be best as corn and beans are very preferable to deer in the winter months, but if they arent available, anything still green or anything that has some nutritional value to them.

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Oh yeah,, and welcome to the site:D

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Thank you for the tips. I am goingto sit along the edge of a picked corn field with the smoke pole tomorrow morning. Hopefully I can tag one with both the gun and bow this week. Any other suggestions?

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The deer seem to be more active right now in midday, so I would try hunting all day or at least include the midday hours. I drove from Columbus OH to South Bend IN today in the middle of the day and saw 3 separate groups of deer feeding in picked fields near woods. There is 5-8 inches of snow on the ground, which may make a big difference as to whether you will see them midday in Iowa though.

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Food source;)

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I hunt in iowa and went out this morning 12/27 and set up 40 yards from the bedded deer. at 8 o'clock i had 7 does under me and took the big one to fill my last antlerless tag.

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Where abouts in iowa are you located? I'm in cedar falls. I took the muzzleloader out this morning and passed on a doe. There's plenty of season left and i have seem to have found where they are traveling.

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Hey Kyle, why dont you go and set me up in your spot!! I'm not seein a thing..... Im Leavin now to try an evening hunt. Got my long udies on and my boots on, and just gotta slip the coveralls over it all. we'll see how things pan out!!!

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IN ohio they are moving mid-day, went out on sunday the day after x-mas we had a foot of snow and it all froze over.....i mean even the trees and leaves that were green were all ice!! The deer bedded down and waited for the sun to come out. I like to re-visit old scrapes, food sources, and if it snowed hard, then i hunt low cuz it seems to push the deer lower down the hill. Good luck let us know how you do.

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Im in clinton

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sorry brett, the landowner wont even let my dad hunt in there with me... I have been seeing tons of deer i had to let a 130" buck walk thismorning because i am out of tags... Hope you saw something tonight let me know if you did.

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Sounds like you can't make up your mind and at the end of the season you will come out dissappointed. I don't know how many or the sex your allowed to shoot but if you want to be grillin this summer you better pull the trigger. You say there is plenty of time left. A friend of mine spent about 12-14 hundred $ to go bow hunting in Ill. this past fall. He called 2 days into the hunt bragging on how he passed on some nice deer and some does but figured it was early in the week and he could shoot a doe or a nicer buck with in the next 5 days or to say the least shoot anything the last day. Well when he got back and told me he hadn't seen another deer all week I felt bad. And now he's relly feeling bad because he still hasn't got any. You take it when you can case there's no gaurantee, especially this time of year. Good luck ,and stick to the mast crops and low lying ares. or food and shelter at this time of year. :)

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FOOD!!!

I video'd my buddy missing his 2nd 170 class buck (both on video) this year out of one of our turnup fields last night. We video'd him on Christmas evening and watched him for about 2 hrs. Next day we went in and put in a new setup along the route he had used the evening before and it ALMOST worked to a "T". Bowstring caught on his hood fastener and sent the arrow about 2' over his back at 25yrds. However, I got great footage of a hoyt bow leaving a treestand from 15'!:D Got Mathews????;)

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Perhaps I am being too picky. I am going to take a doe with the muzzleloader and try to wait on a nice buck with the buck. This is my first year hunting with a gun.