Late Season Is Coming

Let’s switch gears here an start thinking about our late season deer hunting. Wow with the cold temperatures an recent snow falls , I can’t help but think of late season. As the rut comes to an end an our temperatures drops this will definitely put a buck on his feet an searching for food to restore the fat he has lost over the last few weeks . Man I tell you I for one love late season. With the snow an the woods quite it’s truly one of my favorite times to be in the outdoors. I will leave the interior of the woods an basically hunt like I do early season “Food Source” . Now is when you will find me on a field edge . I love it where you will an can find hi numbers in a field at once. My favorite is a standing soy bean field. Deer will hit them while green in the early season an leave to corn. But in late season there DEADLY! Deer love them hi in protein an help restore there nutrition they have lost over the last month. Also corn, sugar beats , mass crops acorns etc. Anything that is hi protein this time of year is great . I will leave my tree stand an hunt in a ground blind with my ice fishing heater often share my blind with a buddy or my kids. This is the time to get a young hunter out for if you hit the right food source the deer numbers can be great . I could talk about this all day . But to say the least I’m looking forward to a late season hunt. I have Iowa shotgun season opening the first weekend in December . Let’s see if I can knock one down. Then get out for that late season bow hunt.

Good Luck with all that Tony.! Man I wish I could
hunt the late cold season like you do.!! And I did for many yrs. Bow hunting the food sources in the late season with snow. Now That was a GOOD time. But I can not take the cold any more. So I really got put to the test this yr. and last yr. in the 1st gun season. The weather was just brutal with those temps and wind.!!!
rrr

The wind an cold was definitely brutal for sure. I think I’m getting old also lol. That’s why a ground blind is a must anymore in late season for myself. An thanks I need the luck.

Tony,

I’ve got beans and brassicas as options this weekend. Which would you choose? Oh, I’ll be in a box blind with the heater going too. Yes, I’m a sissy.

I personally would hunt the beans. Especially after the cold snap we are going through .

tony_p wrote:

I personally would hunt the beans. Especially after the cold snap we are going through .

.. I have to agree on the beans. One of the farms we hunted in the 1st gun season. Had a picked bean field that boarded most of the woods. Once the snow came you couldn’t hardly believe how heavy the deer were using it. Especially at night. We would see does and fawns and small bucks in the field during the day. But wow. The next morning there were plenty of big buck tracks in that field. Some that would just line out across the field. Going to where ever. In there search for hot does. [ or so that’s what I believe they were doing]. It was a food source that was being used Big Time day and night. …rrr

Beans are always a go to, but brassicas are certainly not a bad second option!

Well, we’ll be “fighting” over a couple blinds this weekend. I’m pretty easy to please though, like Tony I just like being out in the field.

Taking my 8 year with me and possibly the 9. If both girls come along, I may be coaxed into shooting a mature doe since they have never experienced success in the blind with me.

Nothing wrong with a nice doe an excellent to put in the freezer :). That would be a great experience for your girls. Don’t forget there thermos of hot chocolate.