Green Fields – Why They Work and Why They Don't for Hunting Deer with Dr. Grant Woods
Day 4: How Not to Spook Deer from Coming to Your Green Field with Dr. Grant Woods
Editor’s Note: Planting a green field doesn't guarantee that you'll take a buck on it. Some green fields produce high-quality bucks every season, while other green fields rarely if ever even yield a buck. What factors make for a great green field, and what makes a green field a waste of time and money? To learn the answers to these questions, we've contacted Dr. Grant Woods (http://www.growingdeer.tv) of Reeds Spring, Missouri, an avid hunter and one of the nation's leading deer researchers and animal-nutrition experts.
  Woods says that deer sometimes won't come to a green field, because they get spooked before they arrive there. To prevent spooking the deer before they reach the green field, take care not to leave human odor in or around the outer edges of the green field before you hunt the field. To minimize odor around green fields, some clubs use flagging tape to create a 50- to a 100-yard buffer zone from the edges of the green field where no one can hunt, until after they harvest their limit of does. Then the club will permit them to hunt on the green field.
You also can reduce the pressure on green fields by not hunting every green field every week. "If a road divides your property, hunt on one side of the road one week and on the other side of the road the next week," Woods recommends. "This pattern allows you to minimize the amount of human odor you leave behind in the woods each week." Carefully enter, and leave your stand site, so that your human odor doesn't blow across the deer trails leading to the green fields. The more you protect the sanctuary of the green field, the more likely that you'll take a big buck from the green field each time you hunt it. Remember that the less hunting pressure that the green field and the area around the green field receive during hunting season, the more likely that you'll see bucks on that green field.
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John Phillips, winner of the 2012 Homer Circle Fishing Award for outstanding fishing writer by the American Sportfishing Association (AMA) and the Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA), the 2008 Crossbow Communicator of the year and the 2007 Legendary Communicator chosen for induction into the National Fresh Water Hall of Fame, is a freelance writer (over 6,000 magazine articles for about 100 magazines and several thousand newspaper columns published), magazine editor, photographer for print media as well as industry catalogues (over 25,000 photos published), lecturer, outdoor consultant, marketing consultant, book author and daily internet content provider with an overview of the outdoors. Click here for more information and a list of all the books available from John E. Phillips.
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