how to get the deer coming

[dhf92]

just moved to a new hunting spot getting new stand never been hunted whats the best way to draw the doe in so the bucks will follow

should i put out fruit

or rattle during rut to bring them in

im stuck little help please

[NYBuckhunter]

First off, you should be placing your stand near a trail or some other spot where the deer frequent, not just pick a tree and try to get them out of their normal patterns. Baiting may work, but make sure its legal in your state/area before you do it. Calls, scents and rattling, in conjunction with good stand placement (among other things) can work very well.

[Bowhunters]

Texas is probably the top baiting state in the U.S. for whitetails. LOL

If you are hunting the hill country of South Texas or anywhere in southern or western Texas then you really need a tripod feeder and to use a deer chow or a mixture of corn and a whitetail feed like 'Buckgrub' or other feed attractant mixed into it. Some like Buckgrub have a scent that the wind will carry and it will help call deer in from the area and help keep them around as long as you keep the feeder going.

I wouldn't advise apples, etc. there as even in the winter it gets very warm there and the apples would make a stinking mess by rotting and deer down there are so used to feeders that they respond well to them.

If you are paying to hunt on a lease the owner should have at least one food plot for you to hunt on and even a few feeders that he fills regularly unless he's told you in advance in the lease that you need to supply your own bait stations but he should still tell you the best places to put them.

If the land owner or leaser says he has feeders already out for you then you just need to decide which one is seeing the most action or which has the biggest racked buck hitting it daily.

If you are hunting in N. or E. Texas where you may find some woods, etc. then yes you want to see if there are any deer trails seeing a lot of traffic that may go between feeding areas like crops,etc. and that go to bedding areas and then hunt the most used trails or maybe even an intersection where several well used trails join that lead to food, water, bedding and hunt those areas.

But as I previously mentioned, for hunting deer in the S. and W. areas of Texas its pretty much imperative to hunt around feeders and maybe a food plot, if you need to put out a tripod feeder or two on a lease it normally doesn't take long for the deer to find a feeder and start coming in regularly expecially if its out in the open and near a water source.

The land owner or leaser should be able to tell you where he see's the most quantity of deer and big bucks on your lease.

Maybe also get a javalina and or pig tag or two if the land owner or leaser says they are around, those are abundant in most of Texas and they will be there using the feeders or bait also.

So it kind of depends on where in Texas you are hunting because that state has such a wide difference in the types of land in that state and that makes you change how you will hunt them depending on where you are.