Here's a tidbit:
It seems these days there is a trend towards trying to put hunting whitetails "in a box".
In other words, many on social media platforms seem to be talking in general about how deer will do this or that, or behave this way or that way.
Here's a thought: whitetails are where you find them. Sounds simple but it is a VERY fluid concept. Always changing.
A greek Philosopher once said the only constant is change. I believe it was Aldo Leopold who applied that saying to Nature.
I tell you that deer are EXTREMELY adaptable and are constantly changing, adapting to their environment.
Food, cover, temperature changes, sex, human or predatory pressure, to name a few.
Consistently successful hunters understand the needs of the herd they are hunting. And these same hunters know when, where and why the deer on the property move or act the way they do.
And the BEST hunters are able to do this in MANY areas across a very LARGE and diverse geographic range with very little scouting.
Deer are different. Individual deer can be extremely different. Mature individual deer ARE extremely different animals than the general run of the mill deer. And ALL deer groups act different in different areas.
Too many hunters focus their efforts on hunting deer when they ought to be hunting what the local DEER are hunting!
