HOW TO FIND AND TAKE TROPHY BUCKS IN THE EARLY SEASON
WITH DR. GRANT WOODS
Don't
Forget Food Plots Are Buck Magnets
Editor's Note: Dr. Grant Woods of Reeds Spring, Missouri,
one of the nation's leading white-tailed deer researchers,
not only has studied whitetails for many years but also
uses the latest scientific technology to track deer
movement and learn why deer do what they do. We've asked
Woods to tell our readers how to find the bucks of their
dreams this year.
Because we've been able to put GPS collars on some
deer, we've learned where deer stay during daylight
hours. In one of my company's research projects, we
had an area that had several really-large food plots
on the study site. We
drew concentric circles, radiating 10 yards out from
that food plot. Because we could study the deer's movements
for four hours, seven days a week, we learned that most
of the deer stayed within 150-200 yards of that food
plot the majority of the day (during hunting hours).
At night the deer spent most of their time in the food
plots and even would lay down in the food plots. But
from sun-up until sundown, the deer
bedded-down, they played, and they milled around within
150-200 yards of those food plots. So from this study,
I've learned that if your land has a productive food-plot
program with really-big food plots, most of the time
the deer will stay close to those food plots.
To learn more about Dr. Grant Woods and Woods and Associates,
you can go to www.deermanagement.net.
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