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Jay Scott Host of Big Buck Registry hear How to Hunt Big Bucks in New England

Jay: Sure, yeah.  Jay Scott Host of Big Buck Registry hear How to Hunt Big Bucks in New England. Well I say that deer hunting, I’ve learned a ton talking to my interviewees, guests on our show and deer hunting for me is definitely an all year round venture now, I mean this time of year, especially in February, March, the scouting never stops and that’s the beauty of deer hunting.

You may be actually hunting in the fall, the actual recurrence of your education in the woods should never end. Your deer season should really begin the minute that the deer season ends the previous year. And this time of year I love getting out in the woods, I love doing some shed hunting, I don’t find a lot, we don’t have a lot of deer in New Hampshire and when you do have a buck that’s worthy and that you know is hanging around that it could be a shooter, the game’s on to try to find those sheds. And when you’re only talking about one to two bucks in the area probably within a few miles it’s not too easy to find their sheds.

But what I’ve found is when you get out in the woods and you spend time on these ice down trails, by ice down I mean these are the trails that the deer have been hitting over and over and over and as the snow melts around them they become basically these little ice highways and you can see where they’re more likely to go than others and you learn a lot even in a very, very small one-acre piece you’ll figure out those deer like to hang out over there more around those fallen logs.

which is my tree stand that had I just moved it another 300 yards to the West I’d be better off because that’s where all the deer are hanging out.

Yet my tree stand I moved over to the other side of the hill and I bet most likely where the tracks are not which is my tree stand that had I just moved it another 300 yards to the West I’d be better off because that’s where all the deer are hanging out. And I didn’t know that until they left all this data on the ground. So the planning starts there, starts the minute deer season ends is when the next season begins and it’s not pack it up, get inside, forget about it, it’s still putting on your winter boots, hiking through the snow when it’s low enough and hopefully you find a shed or two but it’s really studying the deer tracks in the snow as the deer would move. It’s a time to get out and actually add more knowledge to your overall hunt. You’ll find places that you never knew existed that these deer love to go. Or maybe patterns change, you just didn’t realize. It’s a good indicator.