deerhunter1224

you guys have any tips on getting a buck? i had no such luck this year getting a deer period.

BBHPete

Boy have you asked a tough one here. Not knowing whether you hunt private land or public land. The best advise I could give you is scout,scout,scout and scout some more. Learn as much about the area you hunt as you can. Start your scouting now. This is a great time to scout. Look for areas with several rubs, These are great areas to make note of. Bucks have certin areas that they like to frequent and they use these areas year after year. I would try to find several areas like this if possible. Field edges are good to pick up lots of info on deer activity. Look for trails coming in and out of the woods. I would refrain from going into the areas you want to hunt at least 2 weeks before the season opener. I could go on and on all day, but knowing your hunting experience or the area you hunt, I could be wasting my breath. I could be telling you things you already know and practice. If you would like to be more specific on your questions, you can email them to me and I would be more than happy to help you out as much as possible.

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basserman

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Pay attention to all the different hunting threads. There isn't a specific answer!

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skeeter 7MM

One of the keys to hunting is location, location, location. As mentioned the way you can determine this is scouting, scouting and more scouting. Once you have located several areas that either hold deer or are routes for deer, than you can start planning. I always find location that provide me wind direction favor in any possible wind situation, meaning don't put one stand or blind up and hope to hunt it with success. While it maybe true during your particular hunting season a prodominant wind may be evident, I have never relied solely on this. I often have several locations that I will sit and hunt in a given area, where it will be determined by wind, food, time of day or year and pressure (hunting). Once you have done this work you can then look for ambush or concealment areas, so stand or blind locations that will afford you good game movement, viewing, reasonable shooting lanes & distance and maximize your concealment (sitting on a top of hill may give you the first three but will not afford you concealment for movement, etc.) Following that experience and different techinque's may up your success rate or ability to draw animals in to your area(ie: rattling, scents, baiting, decoys, etc). My last tip is when looking or scouting for possible location to hunt from, think like a deer. By this I mean look for spots deer feel comfortable travelling or living in(ie: bottlenecks, draws, funnels, ridges, meadows, game path intersections, rublines, scraps and wooded areas close to bedding and between food & water sources or the actual water and food sources themselves).

Like the others have said without specifics, it is pretty hard to pin down what you may do to improve your odds, but these are the basics that deer hunters follow and usually it is experience & area knowledge that play the other big part. Unfortunately that is something that will come with time and is pretty hard to tell or type. Just keep trying, do lots of scouting and homework.

Good luck and don't be affraid to try something a little different, you may just stumble onto the mother load!!!!

halcon

What Skeeter says describes it better than I could .