On stand? What are you hunting over?

[ImThere]

Getting ready to head out i was going to hunt a pond midday today but with all the rain im not sure the will travel there with water every where. Thoughts? Food or water?

 

[rem270]

Id say food. Thats what ill be hunting over this evening.

 

[Jarred525]

Yep, food. Specifically white oak acorns around my place.

 

[Trevor2]

Food, there moving. Deer get 80% of their water through plants anyhow.

 

[bigtex]

Travell routes coming out of cover.

 

[easy45]

All my stands are over food, one is on some white oaks near standing corn, one is on a oak grove with some persimmon trees mixed in, one is on a bean field, so I'm banking on food right now, lol

 

[Redfred16]

Travell routes coming out of cover.

This is what I've always hunted in Wisconsin. The transition/travel routes from food to bedding areas. I'd see good movement before dark or right at first shooting light.

 

[ImThere]

Travell routes coming out of cover.

This is what I've always hunted in Wisconsin. The transition/travel routes from food to bedding areas. I'd see good movement before dark or right at first shooting light.

Midday?

 

[Winchester]

FOOD!

 

[Redfred16]

Travell routes coming out of cover.

This is what I've always hunted in Wisconsin. The transition/travel routes from food to bedding areas. I'd see good movement before dark or right at first shooting light.

Midday?

Other than rut I didn't know a lot of people that hunted midday. Most of the time you'd do a morning set and an evening set, with a break midday to eat, nap, work on the cabin, ect.

During rut the travel routes were great anytime, it was just a matter of being there when the does came by with the bucks hot behind.

This is all archery season based, gun season I hunted the big open fields opening weekend, then moved to the thick cover I prepped with shooting lanes due to the heavy pressure pushing deer there.

 

[Pursuit Hunter]

Fresh deer poop. All of it that I have found has been under white oaks.

 

[bigtex]

Travell routes coming out of cover.

This is what I've always hunted in Wisconsin. The transition/travel routes from food to bedding areas. I'd see good movement before dark or right at first shooting light.

Midday?

Yes, in particular during the pre rut, rut period.
Not as much movement during midday early season, but I still see "some" movement hunting travel routes anytime. In my area, the deer start filtering back to cover late morning and will bed up for a few hours chewing their cud untill they get hungry again and come out midday for another snack. During the rut, pre rut, you might see a horny buck cruising close to travel routes looking, smelling for an estrous doe any time of the day.

 

[Andy S.]

Fresh deer poop. All of it that I have found has been under white oaks.

x2. Exactly what I look for when in the woods, especially during bow season.

 

[randy]

50 pounds of corn in a pile.












JK.
Lots of acorns, and a spring fed creek 50 yards from a corn field.

 

[ImThere]

50 pounds of corn in a pile.












JK.
Lots of acorns, and a spring fed creek 50 yards from a corn field.

What you got gps on me?
I went to my favorite acorn patch beside the creek funnel and a fence seds them down toward me bad part is i walked in on 5 does and 2 more that ran off when i came in so hopefully they come back before dark

 

[hitek7]

We see lots of deer on our property in the early season between 10AM and noon. They are usually eating on the acorns.

 

[catman529]

I am hunting over a big pile of sweet golden deer corn

jk

Will be hunting over the shooting lanes Mudbone and I cut a week ago. Might go clear another lane to a known travel route where deer hit the field every evening. If I don't see anything from the stand, I will go sit by one of the evening trails about an hour before sunset. Will see how it goes

 

[Anonymous]

Travel route dumping out of thick pines into hardwood bordered by 5 year old cutover with many oaks still standing in it

 

[bowriter]

Same answer for all my stands: None are over anything but travel trails. However, all are covered up with acorns, persimmons and those white flowers deer eat like candy. If they stop to browse, I have a standing shot. Otherwise, I shoot them walking.

 

[ImThere]

So pretty much everybody hunts the same spots rain or shine and any time during the day gottcha

 

[bowriter]

Certainly not true for me. Time of day, rain or shine, wnd direction are all factots for me. Just not food sources.

 

[ImThere]

What i ment was no matter what you like to hunt travel trails while others it sounded like they like to hunt over food no matter what

 

[bowriter]

True dat. I use food as a catalyst. It is what makes deer move (travel) it does not matter to me how far or how little they travel, they do travel. When they do, I'm there.

 

[Don'tDrinkTinks]

rice bran and corn mixture

 

[bigtex]

True dat. I use food as a catalyst. It is what makes deer move (travel) it does not matter to me how far or how little they travel, they do travel. When they do, I'm there.

I agree, that is why I also primarily hunt travel routes [trails]
Deer seldom just meander aimlessly around. The only reason I can think of that deer move is food, sometimes water, sex, or fleeing from danger.
Find a well used trail near where they enter or exit a thicket [clear cut, overgrown field, etc] and sooner or later you will see them on or close to that trail doing one of the reasons stated above.

 

[Dbllunger]

Travel routes for me as well