You Can Find Deer but They Can Find You Too

By Justin Stakes

Editor’s Note: Dr. Grant Woods of Reeds Spring, Missouri, a leading white-tailed deer researcher, uses the latest scientific technology to track deer movements and learn why deer do what they do. You can use Dr. Wood’s tactics to see and take deer this season.

by Dr. Grant Woods with John E. Phillips

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To locate deer, I’ll study the movement patterns of deer during the early bowhunting season. Often then the bucks will be moving as though they’re not disturbed. The three areas to concentrate on when you’re looking for deer in November are places where deer eat, drink and bed before the rut.

A mature buck in November will be in what I call a secure area where he doesn’t believe he’ll see a hunter or thinks he can escape before the hunter sees or takes him. A secure area may be only a small trash pile out in the middle of a 40-acre field where the buck can smell and see in all directions.