Whitetail Chronicles Part 1: Written by: Kim Duell
."Proper Treestand Placement" (Early Archery Season)
written by Kim Duell
Stand location is obviously important. Most of us place our stands in areas where deer sign is most concentrated.
A concentration of tracks and droppings are generally in and around main food sources. Knowing the cycle in which a deer chooses its food is a sure fire way to proper stand placement.
If you familiarize yourself with a piece of land and its whitetail food source, you have allready gotten to first base. On rare ocassions all the food scources in an area may be productive at the same time. This can be a good situation. This may pull deer into your stand location from long distances. However on the other hand you may sit in in a treestand for hours thinking about where the deer are feeding.
If you hunt an area that receives hunting pressure, this could help you with your stand position. Once the human scent enters the woods deer are immediately alerted. Dont even think for a minute they dont notice the change. Deer are not dumb animals and every precaution you can take will help you get in close for a shot. When there is an abundace of a particular food the deer will feed at that location. The rule of thumb is late afternoon and also the first thing in the morning are when the most activity at food plots take place.
So in conclusion, do your homework early. Learn where the main food plots are, and hunt around them in the key times that deer are feeding in those areas. Always remember that bucks can change their habits real quick, so you have to be able to do the same thing. Know the area and know where every food source is. This can help you in becoming more succesfull.
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Whitetail Chronicles: Part 2
Whitetail Chronicles.
Part 2
"WHITETAIL BUFFET"
Written by: Kim Duell
A Whitetail's food source is usually locatedn all over the woods. Their favorite place to feed can
change at the drop of a hat during the year. I've witnessed deer eating such food as dried up bron
leaves, green ferns, hemlock brows and the ever most popular; acorns from white oaks, apples,
corn, green grass and beechnuts. The more time one spends in persuit of the Whitetail in a
particular area, the more you will learn about what food sources deer may be using. You will also
figure out what time of the year and day for that matter they are hitting these food sources. The
best early season spots to hunt are the acorns from White Oaks. If there is a plentiful supply of
acorns from White Oaks in the woods, be sure to hunt those areas. There seems to be a superb
crop of Acorns this season and last season was real good too. In my past experiences deer seem
to pass by the apples for the oaks. Deer tend to hit the apples later in the season after the apples
have started to ferment. This all reverts back to treestand placement and finding the right food
sources to place the stand over. You really have to do your homework and hunt the correct places
during particular times of the year. During the early season when the rut is nonexistent the only
way to really take the advantage in the woods is to hit the food sources. This for sure should give
you the upper edge.
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