The Complete Guide to Deer Scouting
Praise the deer gods, it won’t be long now until you put the stress and uncertainty of the pandemic behind and head out for some much-needed rejuvenation time in a tree stand. But don’t wait until the last minute to get ready. To tie your tag to a big whitetail, the advance work you do right now is as important, maybe more so, as the hunt tactics you’ll employ in a couple of months. Here’s your plan. Chart a Course On your kitchen table with the A/C cranking, check topo and aerial maps, either old-school paper ones or on an app like Onx Hunt, of the lands you’ll hunt this fall. Study the contours of crop fields, pastures and woodland [...]