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This page will inform you on the subject of the deer and its habits. This is necessary on any hunt, because while hunting deer, you must know a lot about deer so that you know where and when to hunt and also how to make sure that you are undetectable to the deer. |
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This is your basic whitetail deer. They live around here and have no permanent homes. They have a big loop that goes across a big area and goes past many areas with lots of food. It takes a few days for the deer to complete the circle, and along the way, they bed down in groups at dawn. At dusk, they begin to move again, which means that you will most likely get that big buck at dawn or at dusk. You must be careful, because if you kill a deer too late in the day, you may not have enough time to gut it and drag it back to your car before it gets dark. |
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To most hunters, the amount of points on a bucks antlers means the most. The more points a buck has, the bigger and more meat it will have. Some expert hunters no longer get a thrill from killing a buck with a small rack, so they let them live, in an effort to increase there chances of getting a big buck the next year. They increase their chances in two ways. First off, next year the buck they let go may have developed a very large rack and would make for a good kill. Second, that buck will mate and make more deer which will increase their chances even more. I am still a novice hunter who says a buck is a buck. |
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There are other deer than bucks that can be hunted. On the other end of things is killing that doe. The doe is the female deer which can also make for a decent kill in an unlucky year of hunting. Sometimes you just have to take what you can get. With the new laws in effect, doe and buck season run at the same time, so while you are on a hunt and you have the proper licenses for the county you are in you can shoot a doe and a buck on the same hunt. You can only shoot one buck a year, but the more doe licenses you have the more you are allowed to kill. |
| While hunting deer there are several strategies. One is to be a still hunter, While using this technique you are actually moving, but only by taking 3 steps at a time and being very quiet and almost motionless. Another technique is to use a blind. Where you sit behind a tree or rest on a log and be nearly motionless, only moving your head when needed, but always move your eyes before your head. If you are with a group of guys you can create a drive. This is where one or two hunters go far away from a hunter who is hiding behind a log. Then they walk back towards them trying to be noisy and scare a deer and make it run towards the hiding hunter. This can be very dangerous because the hunters that are creating the push are in the line of fire, so you must be very careful. These techniques are mostly for firearms hunters, if you use a bow you are most likely to use a tree stand and try to call the big bucks toward you. |
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