When asking deer hunters when their favorite time of year to hunt occurs they will often say pre rut. Some even say that it is those few days around Halloween. This is mostly due to the fact that bucks are beginning to be more active in anticipation of the upcoming rut. One of the common methods of hunting this time of year is hunting scrapes, to be more specific, hunting scrape lines.
When lockdown brings hunting the Whitetail pre-rut scraping and chasing activity to a screeching halt you can do two things. Wait for it to end and activity to resume, or make things happen.
Over the last two decades the game trail camera has no doubt become the biggest tool in a hunters arsenal when it comes to scouting whitetail deer. It has become so popular in fact, that a game camera could easily be the equivalent to a cell phone in today's world, because pretty much everyone has one.
One of the best spots to tag a buck at the tail end of the season is along a fertile river bottom. Use these three strategies to fill that unused tag burning a hole in your pocket.
If you’re like 99 percent of whitetail hunters, you probably own a grunt call or two. But chances are good those calls spend most of the time buried in a pocket or dangling unused around your neck.
Perhaps you’re deer hunting a new area this season and with it comes the requirement … or opportunity … to try a new type of firearm. Maybe you’re just curious about how rifles, muzzleloaders, and shotgun slugs really stack up. Or you might see a chance to use the fine print in the hunting regs to your advantage.
Understanding pre-rut behavior can land you a mature buck if you play your cards right. During the pre-rut, hunters can intercept the much more active routines of bucks. Do you know how to best use the pre-rut to your advantage?
One of the most sought after pieces of equipment in a deer hunters arsenal is a grunt call, most hunters will have one within reach every time they're in the field.
One of the most common problems deer hunters face is when bucks feel pressure on the usual feeding sites such as agricultural fields, food plots, and oak flats. Almost overnight, they can seem to vanish. When this happens, consider hunting near an alternative food source that’s often overlooked by most hunters: berry bushes, orchards, and scattered persimmon, apple, and pear trees.
During the peak deer breeding period of the rut, hunters picture the woods and fields alive with big bucks letting their guards down and running helter-skelter, wildly chasing does. If ever there was a sure time to fill a tag, that would be the time.
