I NEED HELP!

[brute]

I need some tips for a late season hunt, i have a MONSTER 12 pointer and his territory is about 300 acres. I need a strategy, something to draw him in. The area is all farm land, and a lot of woods. it is all in soy beans. And i need to know what type of food plot works best. What salls work best for the late season? please help

[quigleysharps4570]

Been hunting the soybean fields myself. Been my observation from 2 different fields that they're going after the corn. Feeder or hand spread, they're cleaning it up. The place I "was" going to get my big buck at, brother-in-law was dumping alot of corn out and they were cleaning it up. First place they made a bee-line for every evening and would be on it still at daylight. If you go a feeder, keep it back in the woods somewhere around that soybean field. Your odds of seeing him before dark in the evening will improve.

[Aviddeerhunter]

Where i hunt food is going to be a big thing once the winter hits and the snow covers all of the food then the deer are looking for another place to eat and if you get the deer looking at something that you have put out or planted whatever it may be it could really work to your advantage....

[jb1buckmaster]

Salt Block / Feeder.. Wheew - that sounds a lot like baiting.

Why don't you just ride around your properity in your Pick up truck - and shoot him out the window?

Pay your due's and that BUCK will be yours dude! If it is meat you want.
Go to the grocery store!

You can't eat the Horns - My Daddy always sez!

[bp-Outdoors_com]

Try hunting at a different time schedule and make sure the deer have not patterned you by learning the sound of your truck when you park off in the distance. Stay in the stand a little later or go in a little earlier in the afternoon. Might pay off.

I am convinced that I see more deer on a private piece of property than the owner because I park farther away from the stands and stay later into the morning. (My truck is a lot quieter also.)

bp

[DocHolladay]

i didnt vote because i think knowing the deer and patience is your best bet. i think it sounds like baiting too, but your state may allow it. better check on it before you do it. i agree with jb, heck why waste gas, raise it from a fawn and shoot it while its tied to a tree.

[mountaineer]

Don't forget when making reccomendations that this is a board with members all over the place. Different states allow different practices, don't forget to check before you try something! So many of you don't even have where you live listed its hard to tell anyway.

Its always interesting how many harsh posts show up when someone asks a question and people reply with what they do. As long as someone is following the applicable laws and being ethical why bash them? There is enough of that going on in the media and with the anti-hunting crowd.

Anyway, off my soap box.

I'm not sure how long your season has been in but he's probably gone nocturnal. I ran into that with one I was looking for earlier this season. Saw him just before then it was like he had a calendar and disappeared. Still found tracks and such but he wouldn't come out in the daytime for anything. The season is done here so all I can do locally is camera hunt.

[quigleysharps4570]

I agree mountaineer. As for baiting, it is legal here in Kansas. When you're hunting the soybean or milo fields and they're coming in from many, many different trails, a feeder or what have you will sure narrow it down. Cheating? No different than the folks that have their seasons in the peak of the rut and use scents, rattle and grunt. That's sure taking advantage of a bucks weak spot! Maybe I'm wrong, someone correct me if I am? One example of feed over rut in another sense: It's a Friday night, been a long week and I'm sitting at home with nothing to do and no money to do it with. A buddy calls, "quigs, the wife is fixing up a real fine supper and we've got an extra steak", "figure afterwards that you and I could drink a few beers and sit around and talk about reloading and hunting". I say "sure, will be right over". I no more hang up and a gal calls "what are ya doing quigs...I'd like you to come over and see me". I ask "when"? "Right now would be fine". Wonder who's gonna win this one?

[ole3030]

Hell -- if that aint wisdom beyond my years....

that is so true lol

Hunt a feeder dood!

[Muncy-outdoors]

That's a great way to explain it! If there was an easy way to get a nice Buck either by baiting or calling then everyone would have trophies on the wall.
If it's allowed in your state I would also do the feeder thing. You're still going to have to deal with the Buck wanting to stay in cover until dark or low light, so sitting yourself up to catch him waiting in the staging area may land you this guy.