Every year in February and March as the gloom of winter subsides and deer hunters begin to get cabin fever, it is time to go deer hunting again. One can hunt deer in the spring. Not the kind of hunting one does in fall but still it is hunting deer. Deer activity tells a lot about what the upcoming season some eight months away will be like.
Spring hunting takes place before the undergrowth gets thick and covers much of the signs of deer activity. It is possible to observe the animals from greater distances than is possible later as the trees and bushes green up.
If you have exclusive hunting rights to a piece of property you can check permanent stands and clear shooting lanes. Lanes cleared in spring allow the deer to become accustomed to the environment before the beginning of the fall seasons. Repairs made become old hat to deer by the end of summer. Changes made in late summer may spook game from the area.
Early spring hunting is an opportunity to find shed antlers. All too soon, antlers rodents consume discarded antlers or vegetation covers them. A shed provides one with an idea of the size of the bucks that made it through the season and winter. The buck who dropped the shed is probably still in the area or at least his genes are in the local gene pool.
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