Hunting Deer Kentucky

Where you are hunting Whitetail Deer is far more important than how you are hunting them.  Why?  If there are no Deer in the area you are simply wasting your valuable hunting time.  That is why it is essential that you scout the property you are going to be hunting this fall in the spring to make certain Deer are in the area and what their patterns are before hunting this Deer season.  Your job is to find that one square inch of Deer home property where you can place your Deer stand and see more Deer in one day of hunting than anyone else sees in a month.  To do this scouting Deer this spring before hunting season is essential.  Scouting the day you go is too little and too late often only pushing the trophy Deer onto other lands.  

Deer do not move unless hunted out of the area and lightly scouting the area pre season will not disturb Deer.  Unless Deer die in the summer, Deer will be in the same place this fall.  Spring scouting in February or March allows you to pattern and understand Deer months before the season.  Whitetail Deer patterns such as where they sleep, eat and seek shelter are determined more by topography which doesn't change from year to year even if different food plots or crops are planted.

Without familiar cover Whitetail Deer are very vulnerable to hunting and predators and they rarely live to readjust.  If hunting pressure moves Deer most often Deer just move a couple of hundred yards into cover until the hunting subsides.   Deer simply are not that intelligent.  Instead Deer react to hunting as a temporary minor disturbance and their need for food, safety and seclusion return to familiar home territory over and over unless completely driven by constant and intense Deer hunting and changes in habitat.  Deer hunting is rarely a factor in Deer leaving their home territory.  

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