How to Spot the Deer and Hunt Them

Some mistakes which the hunters do are that theypalatable deer food is during the hunting season. This
always wait the deer in the places they were eatingvaries from place to place and from year to year and
previously. In this article you will learn that the deermust be determined in each place and in each season.
can eat in various places. This is because their foodsHere in Maine, when we have a beechnut year, most
are seasonal and they have similar foods to what theof the deer abandon other food and flock to the
sheep and goats eats. The deer changes theirbeech ridges.
feeding places according to the availability of foods.Deer even travel several miles from their home range
One of the many things that a hunter should knowin search of this food and, if not disturbed by
about deer is their feeding habits and the food, whichhunters, do not always return to their home range
they eat. A deer, like any animal, needs to eat to live.between feeding periods. On other years, they
The hunter who looks for these animals in an areadepend on acorns, apples, browse and plants that
where there is no food available is wasting his time.have not been destroyed by frost. There is no hard
Deer resemble sheep and goats in the food, whichand fast rule that can be used, but careful
they eat. Like goats, they like the coarse fiberedobservation on the first day of a hunt should give a
plants and bushes. Like the sheep, they prefer theman some idea of what the deer are feeding on.
broad-leafed plants and weeds to the narrow-leafedWhat deer eat is not as important as when they eat
grasses. They like many cultivated crops as well asit. Most hunters know that deer feed twice a day,
many berries, fruits and nuts. Most of their foods arenight and morning, but many men waste a lot of time
seasonal. This is the reason why it might not be wisewatching feeding areas at a time when there is little
to look for deer in the same place they were seenchance of a deer visiting them. I have seen deer
feeding a month previously.feeding as late as nine o'clock in the morning and as
Every year we hear people remarking about theearly as three o'clock in the afternoon, but this is
ability of deer to know when the hunting season isunusual and it is a waste of time to watch these
about to open; how they leave their usual haunts atplaces between these hours except in times of
about this time. Yet people never seem to realizeinclement weather. Deer seem to be very
that the hunting season is usually preceded byweather-conscious and will sometimes feed just
several frosts that kill vegetation upon which thebefore a storm and sometimes during a light warm
deer have been feeding and that they are forced torain. They seldom feed during a bad storm unless
change their location in order to find sufficientthey are feeding on browse in a heavily wooded
palatable food. Of course, the rutting season and thearea that provides good cover, such as a cedar
presence of bird and rabbit hunters in the woods atswamp.
this time of year have an upsetting effect on aTraveling several miles to search for food can change
deer's nervous system; nevertheless, the change ofthe locations of the deer. They vary from place to
feeding grounds is the most important reason forplace and year to year. So before going for hunting
their change of location.for the deer, you must be aware of what kinds of
It is not necessary for the hunter to know each andfood do they eat and where can you find them and
every plant and bush that deer eat, but it is desirablein which seasons of the year. This will definitely help
for him to know what the most abundant andyou to locate the deer better.