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Everyone likes to see a beautiful autumn sunset over a field or meadow. Late in the deer season, that's all you are likely to see from a stand overlooking an open field. Bucks, particularly big ones, avoid open areas most times and are particularly shy about leaving cover during hunting season. However, the food is where the does congregate and does are mighty attractive to a big buck. If a field is where he must go to find female companionship, then so be it -- but he probably won't come out until after dark. So where is Mr. Buck in the waning hours of shooting light? He's hanging out in the woods adjacent to the field edge. Look for thick patches of cover in open woods near fields. Often these "staging areas" are easily identifiable by abundant buck sign such as rubs and scrapes. If such areas also show trails converging from heavy cover, brushy ravines or such, you may have discovered Mr. Big's "happy hour" hangout. |
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