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Deer Hunting
State Choices
Hunt Methods
Hunter Interests
Other Hunts
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Selection CriteriaTheir are several whitetail deer hunting lease criteria to consider. The first are the creation of options within the lease. Whitetail will make a liar out of most hunters far more frequently than most are willing to admit. The greatest advantage to a successful whitetail hunt in terms of any lease are the inclusive options. The more the better. Options include multiple food sources to ensure a more stable year round whitetail deer population. Year round water as deer will, must, drink every day. Multiple types of habitat to accommodate seasonal weather changes and the all critical birthing and fawn cover. Without this last bit there will be far fewer whitetails that have that one piece of ground as their core or home range. Home range is first and foremost established and sustained by having a ground cover area that suits the doe to give birth and raise their fawns. This deer lease article offers only the foundation lease options to consider. There is much more to deer hunting private land than can be covered in one deer lease article. Not only the state of choice must have a long time history of trophy production that state will also have regions of better trophy production over other regions. Knowing this difference is the difference between more and less wallhangers and subsequent eyes on and tag on success rates. And, this one part is hard to learn. Record books will come to
mind as the source for the best regions in any one state and they may help.
However, talk to all known whitetail hunters with several racks on the wall and
ask how many certificates does that deer hunter have. The most common answer is the
first record book buck has a certificate and after that the others are unknown
to the books and rarely come from the same area. For even the most accomplished deer hunter to learn any one
piece of ground takes multiple trial and errors before the desired trial and
success. That one golden nugget of a spot the hunter may be blind to until
having enough time on the ground to detect seasonal patterns. Giving up a deer lease
before that point is simply a hunter jumping from property to property or in
this case more likely deer lease to deer lease again helping the economy more
than his deer hunting. Put the idea of cost aside and understand that once any
one that puts a price tag on having fun they will find the price always too high. If
using cost as a criteria above any other stay home and take up bowling.
Bowling is cheaper, it is indoors, air cooled in the summer and dry in the winter
and the person can drink beer while bowling. Cost is to be the last criteria as
should be travel distance for the same reasons.
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