“Tag: Deer Hunting Tactics”

When it comes to deer hunting, perhaps no game is more vexing than the wary bucks that inhabit the East. To put the odds in your favor, break from tradition and go rogue.

It took the author a decade to learn these lessons about when, where and how to hunt and kill big bucks. Some of them may not be big news, but any number of them should reveal something for anyone.

The whitetail opener can be a tale of two vastly different types of deer: Those bucks that can be relatively easy to kill, and those that aren’t. Here are some early-season strategies for both.

Pre-rut whitetails can be as fickle as the early-fall weather. When your hot spots are too hot to touch, try these strategies to wallop warm-weather bucks.

Edge habitat is not the only place to find a good buck. But hunting pressure and heat, and attractants like mast crops and scrape lines, may keep a buck away from edges longer than you’d like. Here’s how to hunt the woods to your advantage.

Scents, mock rubs or scrapes, decoys or even upturned earth may stop a curious buck long enough to create a brief shooting window.

Some spots are better than others, but most of these should be avoided.

Here’s a game plan for each phase of the whitetail rut.

Here are 15 ways to slip in undetected and kill that buck of a lifetime.