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How to Save Your Deer Hunting Season When There’s No Sign of Deer
In late deer hunting season, food sources can dry up or be overgrazed. Tender green leaves vanish. Grains left in the fields from harvest are gone. Apples fallen from trees have been devoured.
The signs you see appear old. The droppings are dried up. Tracks are faint. Rubs are inactive or turning grey with age.
The deer have left the area searching for new food sources. It might be winter crops just starting to come up. It could be a timber area just logged with leaves and tree tops on the ground. Deer have been known to move to active logging areas, even with the noises, to eat the tender tree greens.
Focus a half to full day on scouting for what has pulled the whitetail away when deer and fresh signs of deer disappear.
Check areas of your deer hunting land you haven’t been in lately. Look for active trails in and out of your deer hunting land.
You can hop in your vehicle and check adjacent properties from the road. Travel back roads looking for signs or possible active food plots. Remember trespassing is not allowed, but you can often see a great deal from the road.
Scout until you discover the situation and location attracting deer away from their usual patterns.
Then next hunting day be downwind waiting. Make sure it is your own deer hunting land or you have received permission to hunt another’s land. You may want to very quietly walk through the area giving special attention to food sources.
Good Luck and Great Hunting!
Marty Prokop
Posted by Marty Prokop
