Whitetail Instinct December 2015 | Page 23

“Deer are in the woods 24/7, they are always out there. If you do your homework correctly you won’t experience a drastic change in the amount of deer you see during October.” Also, you can take some time off from the tree stand and do a little bit of scouting. It is imperative that this scouting remains on the edges of the property. As we discussed earlier deer are becoming more and more wary of human activity every day. Scout the recently cut agricultural fields in your area and on your property to find the hot food sources. The trick to hunting food sources at this time of year is to hunt the food that is going to be attractive to deer next week instead of hunting the food sources that were attractive to deer a few weeks earlier. will hit these spots before they go out into the bigger fields and with most of their movement happening near the end of shooting light, it might just give [