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Article: The need to feed: food sources are the key to finding pressured bucks.
- Article from:
- Petersen's Hunting
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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On opening day, most deer are running for their lives, and finding them is often a matter of setting up in the right travel corridors. As the weeks progress, however, and the relative calm of the late season sets in, deer begin once again to structure their lives around finding food.
But the pressure of hunting season is steel ever-present, and most hunters know it has a predictable effect on deer patterns. Bucks quickly become ghost. Many times all you'll see are their tracks. You know they're around but you never see them. Rarely will they venture out of their security cover during the daylight. It only takes a few encounters with hunters before a buck ...