Posted September 1, 2017 2:34 pm by Comments

By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson

Use low-impact scouting methods as the hunting season approaches. Alert a buck like this to your presence and you risk pushing him off your property.

By Josh Lantz,
Late-summer whitetail scouting should be all about hunters patterning deer – not the other way around

Use low-impact scouting methods as the hunting season approaches. Alert a buck like this to your presence and you risk pushing him off your property.

FLIR SystemsU.S.A.-(Ammoland.com)-Many successful deer hunters spend more time scouting than hunting. And for the whitetail elite, scouting is a year-‘round proposition. But late summer seems to be the time when most everyday deer hunters get serious. Bow season is right around the corner, and they’re anxious to pattern deer for fast success once the opener arrives. Consequently, they ramp up their scouting activities in the field.

Human encroachment in the whitetail’s world is a complex thing. When it comes to observing human activity, for example, mature deer seem to know the difference between agricultural activity and hunting activity. There may be two primary reasons for this. The first is that nobody is shooting at deer when farmers are busy planting and tending to crops in the spring and summer. That means a hunter riding the field edges on an ATV checking trail cameras really doesn’t seem that threatening during these periods. …Read the Rest

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