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        LATE SUMMER SCOUTING FOR DEER

 

    Today you have people who plant food plots and try different lures to entice the deer to their hunting area in early archery season, and when alot of people scout in late august, they go looking for the signs of where the deer are. I find the best way to scout, is not to look for the deer at all, but rather look for where the deer will be. Let me explain myself. I hunt in my back yard every year. My back yard consist of about 500 acres, now I don't own all of this land, but family and neighbors who give me permission right around the area where I live, so it all adds up to about 500 acres. I have spent alot of time over the years persuing whitetail. And one thing I have learned, is that an early season, they are after the food, and by studying the deer, I have learned there are certain orders in which the deer move, and certain crop that the deer focus on. Sometime during the middle of september thru the first week of october, deer focus heavily on white oak. Around this time they start on the chestnut oak, then later on the black and the red oak.

 

                                                      white oak                                       chestnut oak

 

                                       

 

So now, instead of looking for the deer in early scouting, I go and look for the trees that are producing the acorns. By knowing when each drops their crop, I know exactly where to be at. I know where the thickets are, where the deer usually bed, and the trails that they follow to these feeding areas, but since the trees don't produce the same every year I need to take the time in early season to find out which trees are doing what, and where to put my stands up. Hopefully this will leave my hunting area undisturbed for about a month and a half so that everything is calm for my first hunt. Here are 2 other food sources that deer truly love, during different stages of the hunting season.

 

                                                       persimmon                                         shumate

 

                                       

 

Learn and familiarize yourself with the mass crops producers in your area, I guarantee this type of scouting works.

 

 

Scott Adkins

crossbowhunters.com

 

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