5 Things Old Hunters Do on Small Land That Keep Bucks Coming Back (Most Hunters Don't)

The Wendell's Deer Book, everything I know about deer, eight acres at a time → https://wendellcoffey.com/deer Most of you aren't hunting a thousand acres. You're hunting eight, or nine, or twenty, behind the house. Here are the five things that keep deer coming back to small ground, and the one mistake that pushes them off it. The five, plain: 5. Be the piece your neighbor is missing. Look over the fence first. If they have food, you be the cover. If they have cover, a narrow north-south strip or a fruit tree. 4. Make it thick. Hinge-cut a few small trees in late winter and kill the fescue so the weeds come up. Never run a saw alone. 3. One corner nobody walks into. Pick the thickest, steepest corner, draw a line around it, and stay out from a month before the season until it closes. 2. Sit it less, and only on its wind. Stand between the beds and the food, closer to the food. Save most sits for late October into November. 1. The way in. Go in low, with the wind carrying you away from the beds. Never through the bedding, never down the trail you hunt. Ease the truck door shut, leave the four-wheeler in the shed, and check the camera every couple of weeks at midday. From the book: Part Two "Eight Acres", chapter 2.3 "I Have Nine Acres" and chapter 2.11 "Where the Stand Goes on Small Ground".