| Capitalizing on deer movement patterns will | | | | out for many reasons. |
| increase your chances at seeing a harvesting | | | | Deer movement, especially bucks, will greatly |
| more mature bucks. Many hunters know the two | | | | increase in November. As the rut approaches, |
| main times that deer move. . . early morning and | | | | bucks will start making mistakes as the |
| late evening. This is true, but there is more to it. | | | | importance for finding hot does increases. This is |
| During early bow season, the deer will usually | | | | your chance to capitalize on these mistakes. I |
| move right before dark. Bucks will usually start | | | | usually like to hunt high in areas where I can see a |
| making scrape lines during this time. The problem | | | | lot of land to increase my chances of seeing |
| with hunting these scrapes this early is that the | | | | bucks passing through. |
| bucks are visiting them after dark. At this time | | | | As the season ends and food becomes scarce, |
| bucks hang together in bachelor groups. | | | | deer movement patterns are highly predictable. |
| As the season progresses and the temperature | | | | Deer will flock to available food sources and often |
| cools off, the deer will begin to increase | | | | move to keep warm. Food plots and harvested |
| movement. I usually start seeing more | | | | crop fields are great areas to hunt during this |
| movement in the afternoons at this time. This is a | | | | time. Deer will scrap these areas clean of any |
| good time to also start hunting scrapes because | | | | food that is left. |
| various bucks will begin to start checking them | | | | |