When selecting a trap site, consider the direction thermals/air will carry scent during the night (when predators are most active). Traps/bait up wind of a critter’s travel path is best to ensure they smell the bait.
Chase and Rylan White have another Ozark Mountain buck on the ground!
Much of the land around their hunting lease is hardwood timber. Quality cover and food is limited. They have done a lot of habitat improvement work during the past year, including timber stand improvement and creating quality food plots. By improving the habitat for whitetails, Chases’ property has become very attractive to critters – especially deer! See THIS hunt were Rylan tagged a bruiser of a buck during the early youth portion of the Missouri 2021 deer season.
Chase knew that during the rut, bucks can lose up to 30% of their body weight and need calories to continue seeking receptive does. During this time of the year, a food source can be a great hunting location for bucks.
Their strategy worked – he tagged a mature buck on this hunting lease! Rylan did a great job behind the camera! We’ll be sharing the entire hunt in an episode coming soon.
For all the hunters headed to the woods this weekend, here’s a quick review for where to aim based on the deer’s body position! Hunting with a firearm is usually at longer distances. A quick, easy retrieval is all about shot placement, the efficiency of the firearm and the ammunition. In this short video, Grant shares very specific and detailed tips for shot placement when deer hunting: broadside standing still, quartering-to or quartering-away, and why you should avoid neck/ head shots, full frontal shots and the “Texas heart shot”.
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Grant and the GrowingDeerTV team
We’re using HuntStand to create a strategy for tomorrow’s hunt! Daniel shares a step by step on how we use the HuntStand App to decide where and when to hunt: weather conditions in the area and in the hunt zone. The hunt zone will show where the scent is going based on the wind and current conditions. It’s a great way to get a plan for a specific blind or stand!
We will be sharing more updates of the weekend hunts on social media! We are always glad to hear updates from our viewers as well – tag us in your social media posts!
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Grant shares an update/morning observations from the woods! He’s seen some deer and has thoughts on what this indicates about the stage of the rut and how to hunt tomorrow!
Team member Chase White was almost run over by a herd of elk while hunting in New Mexico. The Winchester 6.8 Western worked perfectly and Chase punched his first elk tag!
Grant shares an update from the stand. It’s the coldest morning of this deer season so far. He’s near a recently burned area that will be warm and sunny later in the morning. Food is nearby and an easy travel corridor. Grant shares his expectations for the morning hunt and when he might choose to use grunt calling. Watch to see the morning hunt and the bucks that came in…but just out of range. It’s a beautiful morning in the deer woods!
