Three Reasons Why You're Not Seeing Deer 

Thats a no shitter I go to work a 145am and I'm like no you don't have time for this

HaHaHaHaHaHa!!!!!!!!!!! No lie there NR!!!!

You are correct, I leave for a Work at 3am... I live in doniphan missouri out on a 2 lane.... if you take 3am add a small amount of "I'm in a hurry" with a touch of "shit I'm late", you will 100% see more eyeballs and street stragglers than you'd ever see on the hunt.

i see a uge body 8 points, at 4 am, beside the street, at the place we are not allowed to hunt, every morning while i drive to my hunting spot. they are not stupid

I got one with my truck on opening day about ten years ago (on my way to my stand), then one from my stand about three hours later.

Lol ain’t that right

Lol facts

Yep because all my deer are still nocturnal... rut hasn't hit hard where my stands at yet..

I agree!! Had an extra bonus today, I had at least 28turkeys walk by my stand today...4 times, down the hill 15 yds to the north then back up and around then back down and up again to the south!!! OMG so cool!! I did not however see a deer all day...🤣

@@rickparshall my daughter and I have taken 2 so far. She got a buck and i took a doe the same evening. Heading out this after for my buck. Well at least I hope! Better be a big one or I'm not shooting though.

@@edarnold1426 good luck shooting a buck after u shoot the hot doe

@@reddawng43x91 I shot a doe and one minute later my daughter shot the buck that was on the other end of the woods. He was coming from the opposite direction. That is only the second doe shot by either of us since she has been hunting, and since 2009 for me. We have both been taking bucks about every year but this year. I wasn't to worried about it as I had passed up a couple of smaller bucks for next year and I'm having surgery this Friday so I wanted to get a tag filled. Most of the rut is on the downhill here now anyway. That girl has taken a buck every year since I've taken her hunting though. Funny when she started hunting I told her not to get discouraged if she didn't shoot a buck for 4 years.lol She shot a double last year the second day out within 30 minutes. I said you know I have you in my best spot right, she said yes you told me before. If I can hunt the last weekend of muzzle loading season I will though. We will see how I'm feeling in two weeks, as we are lucky and no one else is hunting our woods and the presure is low in a high hunting area.

Amen

DareMeBroVlogs I rate that a rough day.. hope you are ok...

@@daremebrovlogs449 couldve been worse bc it couldve killed you...truly tho that sucks wtf happened???

@@rickparshall I was not expecting that.lol I to hope your okay! I would rate that as a terrible day x3. Please elaborate. I too was shot, but it was on a fox drive when I was about 13 years old. I was far enough away and had enough clothes on that nothing made it to me from a 10 gauge shotgun. I can so though, that was the first and last fox drive that I was ever involved with!!! Sorry I replied to the wrong guy though.

Ed Arnold no prob, I hope he's ok and you as well.. I have had some close calls on state land during gun season... no longer hunt state land after early bow season anymore... too many hunters per acre..

@@rickparshall the reason i didnt hunt from age of 16 until i was 28 again was bc i got shot at in state land... 16 year old me didnt like that.. I still hunt state land so im always weary tho

I agree wholeheartedly!! A good friend, (who was/is a great outdoorsman) taught me to look for horizontal “lines” amongst the vertical trees/saplings. Once you get used to doing that, you can scan a woodlot pretty quickly.

YEP

Epic!

There are a lot of times you'll scan to the right, look to the left, and as soon as you turn head your head back to the right there's a deer standing right in the open. Like a ghost.

@@InformedOutdoors You ain’t lying! I can’t count how many times I’ve gotten busted by a deer that I didn’t see or hear coming....Even when you’re being alert and on point! You’re right… sometimes they are like GHOSTS!

I like to call them wood ninjas

@@WizardsDoMagic That’s a good name for them! 😂

On MOnday, I saw four deer jump a fence 30 yards away, and I didn't hear a sound.

I’m in my stand a hour or so before daylight and I can watch the guys on the other end of the farm walking in with there flash lights 10 mins before daylight and it really does work they push them straight to me

So....walk through woods between midnight and 4 am? Should I use a spotlight?

@@danletter9357 Only if you can convince a game warden that you are hunting some form of game that is legal to hunt after dark. Note: Some game wardens are hard to convince.

I was thinking about putting a scarecrow out there then I am not there. So, the would get use to people.

@@reb1050 if you live in Texas you could say hog but alot of land says no night hunting to just prevent lieing with that reason

You got it.hunters have left the woods you by yourself.i use timing when deer actually are up on their feet and set on stand over 50 years chasing whitetails helps.

I don't go to my stand before daytime here's why .I bump to many deer I can't shoot what I can't see.right @ daybreak I enter.but I can see without attention gettn lite.think about it.(deer hunter)

@@carolemcconnell4651 fair play Carole. Fair play.

Here in the River Valley bottoms of Arkansas, this is good info. Thanks. I'm the same way. Slapping, shooing, blowing, swatting, everything short of jumping jacks.

@@Echo_5_Charlie My brother-in-law and I have been using a Thermacells for the past few years. You can be sitting in a cloud of mosquitos, turn that baby on and poof---they are gone. I've had deer walk right up under the stand with it on--they don't seem to mind or pick up on it. Semper Fi Marine.

@@pokey5428 thank you! I appreciate that. I like to ground hunt as much as I do in a saddle or stand, and this would help tremendously. Looks like I'll finally break down and get one. SEMPER FI! 🇺🇸👍

Would you mind sharing those tips? any pov can be helpful

@@prestongogan2767 I really do need to make a video on this stuff. It takes years of learning and spending time in the field and observing deer and wildlife behavior. BTW we are selling a beautiful new home bordering our farm here in So IL, so the QDM is already in place with 10 years of history at growing the deer age structure. Most of our learning we continually share on our channel. Thanks and best of luck!

Deer look up alot. They look everywhere

Naa man… this stuff is like googling a soup recipe. They drone on and on for a hot minute about randomly stuff then tell you the recipe…after the ad runs also.

Where in ny are you hunting?

Hudson Valley. We get a lot of hunting pressure in the first week of the regular season. Add in the EHD we got this year and 2021 is going to be a rough one. A couple buddies shot nice bucks, but not like other years.

Yea im originally from the catskill mountain area (but live in the new paltz area) and hunt about 30 miles south-south west of Albany at the base of windham mountain and it seems that if you don't get a deer before the rifle shots start ringing out on opening day then you are absolutely doomed. Has happened every year for the last 8 years. Youll at most see them hauling ass through your shooting lanes but theyll NEVER stop amd youll NEVER see them again. Its ridiculous

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Yep, I do that. Still haven't seen any deer. I walk very slow and quiet.

My grandfather was too old to teach me how to hunt by the time I was old enough. He did tell me that you find a hot trail and set up down wind of it and stay still. If they don't come through the first day they will the second. He always put a big emphasis on staying still. He use to get deer every year and so do I.

Yeah , I finally figured that out too. I went out 1 time this season 1 hour , 7 point , done.

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Laid many down with a Marlboro hanging out the side of my mouth,my daughter started hunting with me last year and I hunted in the same stand as she did right beside her and I smoke she kill her limit and my limit last year and she doesn't smoke this year she hunted Alone and she told me dad you gotta go with my so you can smoke my cover scent so I can start see some deer lol I even have a video of me shooting a buck with the Marlboro between my fingers on the forearm of the rifle stock with the wind blowing the smoke straight to the buck and he never was even slightly alerted at all till that bullet hit him anyway Iv hunted all my life and every year kill my limit and in the past a couple other people's limits to but I only hunt on property I personally look over and culling is something that all hunters should do it allows better bucks to carry on the good or better gens the first year my daughter hunted with me we seen what I call a cull buck in to sight I looked seen one side great the other junk I told her kill him the coolers not full she said dad he's bad on one side I said that's why he passes that to his sons and if you don't I will so she did damn good shot too but all my children were already extremely good marksmen by the age of 12 if taught early then you take away all the wondering about a fire arm my children are grown now but if asked now what is a safety on a gun they will say the person holding it is the only real safety on a gun

@@calvinlayport3127 if this ain't a absolutely perfect reply I don't know what is keep on keeping on brotha

Does weed work

Yeah that’ll make your heart sink every time.

Yup fucking dicks

Are you WV guy lol

Happened to me opening day this year...got up extra early just so I could be out there setup and waiting...about ten or fifteen minutes before it was light enough to shoot I see a headlamp coming through the woods towards me...so I start flashing my headlamp at the person...and wouldn't you know it...even after having appeared to see me that fucking asshole walked right past me just at shooting light.

A willy even)))

Definitely

I used to get to my stand before light now I get there around 8am seems in my area that’s when they move so have breakfast still hunt to your stand slowly!!!! Works for me

Horizontal lines shades etc.yes

If you are looking for an animal, you are going to miss them. You look for movement or something out of place. I was a kid and standing there looking at the same tree my dad was pointing out a squirrel in. I couldn't see it. He asked what I was looking for. I said "A squirrel DUHHH!!" He was like that is why you are not seeing it. Look for a flick of the tail, an ear, a tree branch wiggling, a leaf moving the wrong direction based on the wind. I started doing that and the whole woods became full of animals. With deer. Know where the deer hide. Hunt the edges of those areas. Stay out of sight, downwind, and BE QUIET when entering and exiting. I still remember setting in my tree stand on public land and multiple hunters walking past a small wooded area not far from the parking area on private land. After the hunters went into the woods and got up in their trees this huge buck crawled out of that little wooded area and went over and grazed next to their trucks. About 11 am that deer walked back and laid down in that same wooded area when the guys started down out of their stands about 150 yards inside that woods. Heard them complaining that there were no deer in that area that day.

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And then think I’m the crazy one who sits from dark to dark

I don’t necessarily agree with getting in way before daylight and or getting out way after dark, I have done both however it just depends on how the deer move through your property when you do it, this past hunting season I always got into my stand 5 minutes before shooting light because the deer on my property were moving through an hour and a half to a half hour before daylight, and it just so happens I didn’t spook one deer this year, and I saw over 300 deer I would estimate, got a nice 10 point out of it aswell👍

Just keep trying dude, your almost there.

Your forgetting Doritos deer love the crunching sound of chips and the noise the bag makes when you put your hand in it

You got the wrong whiskey. Try Jefferson reserve. They like that. Some of the younger bucks like basil Hayden but the older fellas know better than the sweet whiskey.

There are areas where only immature deer will travel in broad daylight. If you do all the things right but are set up in the wrong place it won’t matter. All the pieces have to be in line.

What’s the basis for not eating meat 3 days before?

@@InformedOutdoors Same friend hunted land near Poarch Creek reservation in south Alabama-said a fella from the tribe told 'em it would allow some time for the meat or "carnivore cologne" to dissipate from your pores to help with scent. I hadn't ever researched it to see if there's any significance to it honestly, though.

That is pretty interesting. I've heard different variations of this, like not eating "greasy" foods or anything with a strong smell.

@@jeremyv4636 make sense...

Makes sure you appreciate your quarry when in a self inflicted meat famine... I reduce meat and keep seasonings to a minimum (no garlic/ hot stuff). Probably healthier anyway to increase vegetables for a while. Just don't lean quickly when farting lol. Won't see deer if you look like you're perched in a tree wobbling left and right.

How bad is CWD in the area?

I agree! I am in Allegan county and have seen very few deer on public land that’s 36,000 acres! So sad!

I'm hunting in Vermont and it's pretty shitty over here to . I've seen nothing but does and one spike horn

Well that was nice of them! You don’t see that very often.

@@InformedOutdoors I see it ALL the time in Wisconsin on public lands. Everyone I have met in the last ten years has been curteous about encroaching on other hunters. Every one.

That definitely depends on the area. I’ve got some horror stories from certain areas of the state, generally most rural. The area I hunt now has a ton more deer, mature bucks are easier to come by and guys are generally way cool. Go figure! Let those a holes have that ground is what I’m thinking. I already filled my bow tag this year on a 4 year old. If I could only get it done with the gun! Good luck!

You are not getting in your stand a hour and half before daylight

@@justinpennington7682 , yes, I normally do, because it is public land and I want to be in my spot before anyone else hunts that area.

I'm new to hunting, but that's always how it works fishing. The one deer I ever shot, same thing happened too. If you really want to see a big buck, go take a pee.

Good tips!

Congrats!

Congrats on your first deer!

Awesome! Remember all you can from your successes... wind direction, area, time of year, etc. Their diet changes rapidly as seasons change. Worth looking around to develop a good picture of why you were successful at that spot. Good job, and happy eating.

Ok? I mean he js trying to give advice to us younger ones

Also from Missouri🤘

Also from Missouri too👍

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Smell is the one sense they absolutely trust.

Will the deer ever come back to an area if you over hunt it?

People would be surprised how close deer will bed to those parking areas and highways. Very often overlooked.

Give it some time and hopefully the pressure drops off and they come back.

That stomp was him trying to get you to move. He thought something was there, but wasn't sure if it was a bad thing or not.

I e just been hunting for two years but I seem to have the most luck seeing deer at sun up. Although just last weekend I sat on a hill at 6:22 and 8 minutes later 3 doe just came out of nowhere within 30-50 yards. A lot of people say be in your spot way early but I’ve had numerous times when I get settled right before sun up and 10-30 minutes later deer are moving around in front of me.

A lot of times people rely too much on what worked for them in the past. They will think because they tagged a good buck out of this specific spot 5 years ago they should always hunt it. Even if they haven’t seen a thing since then.