Rx for Deer Hunting Success by Peter J. Fiduccia

Author:Peter J. Fiduccia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2016-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

When hunting suburban bucks find a deer trail crossing from food sources to bedding areas. It won’t take long to locate a good buck. Photo Credit: CanStock Photo.

Lastly, even after kicking or walking through a small patch of cover, don’t walk off and continue hunting if nothing breaks out immediately. Instead, after you have gone through the cover, walk off ten or so yards to where you have a good vantage point and watch the patch of cover carefully at the ready for at least ten to fifteen minutes. Adult bucks can curl themselves up into small packages and have the uncanny ability to let hunters walk within feet of them without getting nervous enough to run. They have learned most times the danger will pass by using this technique. When you stand by and wait several minutes, however, even the craftiest buck’s nerves begin to fray, and he’ll eventually get nervous enough to get up to escape.

Okay let’s get back to hunting tactics for backyard bucks. This is a tactic that will put you where the deer are just by paying a little attention to their signs. For instance, find an area where deer leave their bedding areas from behind houses, etc. Then locate where the deer cross the road from the backyard or other small patch of cover they are using. Next, find where they enter the woods or fields on the opposite side of the road to reach their feeding areas. Once you discover exactly where the deer leave from one side of the road and enter on the other side, you have a prime location to set up a ground or tree blind within fifty yards off the entry point to where the deer are going to feed. However, check your local game laws first. Even though this tactic doesn’t provide the usual aesthetics of a hunt, it will provide the element of surprise to your hunt. Mature bucks and adult does have learned not to expect danger this close to the road. Once deer get twenty or thirty yards into the woods, they often stop to regroup, and this behavior can lead to good shooting opportunities at close ranges!

Through experience, I have learned to let the first several deer pass by unmolested. They are likely to be females and immature bucks. The lead doe will usually run the group across the road. She will then allow them time to regroup before moving on. Generally, only minutes later, an older buck will cross and enter the woodlot behind the does. Interestingly enough, an adult buck will often hang up for several minutes only fifty or so yards into the woods. Over my years of hunting I have observed many mature bucks exhibit this milling about behavior. In fact, sometimes they will mill about for nearly twenty or thirty minutes before they decide to leave.

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