I am new to archery hunting. I bought a bow four years ago, with the best of intentions, but I never got around to getting to the farm in Ky during archery season. That, and the white trash, poaching neighbors.....no use to try to hunt the food plots i put out, or the salt licks. Hard to swallow.... I pay the taxes that pay those guys disability benfits. I pay the taxes that bought and maintain the 10,000 acres of public land down the road, I also pay the taxes and insurance(in case one of the sorry S.O.B.s fall out of a tree stand on my land. That's how they got disability in the first place, lying and stealing from soeone who would work). So i have given up. I used to see thirty to forty deer every night on my cover crops, now two or three is a good count. Why fight it? I have decided to hunt here in North Carolina.
No one hunts where i live, because the land is broken into 3 to seven acre tracts, and we are very close to town. We constantly see deer, and there are a few collisions each year with cars... What i wondered, are there any different rules for backyard deer? I know all about farmland deer, from my teenage years. We used to be very successful in middle Gergia, hunting over cropland. I learned a few tricks about true "wild land" hunting in the mountains here. Basically, walk, walk, walk, and walk some more til you find a food source. mature eastern hardwoods are a lot like a desert, really. When you find a good food source, like a good, heavy producing white oak, or a little creek with some grapes, you are in good shape.Deer eat, flp and sleep pretty close. Are backyard deer the same?
Do they move more or less? Are they scent sensitive, or can you forget cover scents? Any tip will help.
