Early Season Bucks

[J Becker]

What are your guy's biggest helpful tips for hunting early season bucks (mid September - begining of October in Iowa)? Thanks!

HunterMan

 

[Steve-O]

Get on the food sources or a funnel to and from a known bedding area. If it is going to be hot find a water hole (Pond if from Iowa). I have been seeing a lot of movement during midday. 11am-2pm. Does and fawns coming to the pasture to feed. Hope this helps out for your youngan

 

[Benny]

Green fields. If you can find a buck coming to a greenfield consistently and nobody else is hunting the area you have an excellent chance of scoring. I have shot 2 of my better deer during the first week of the season on a transition area about 75 yards from the fields edge.

Biggest thing is make sure the wind is right. You have one chance and thats about it. If you spook deer you can probably kiss that spot goodbye until the rut so wait for a good wind.

 

[jkratz5]

While hanging stands yesterday (betweeen 9-2:00, I saw 11 deer, 9 of them were at about 11:30, every one of them was eating acorns. This was the only area I came upon that had a good drop of the ground and the deer were all over it. I like these areas early in the year especially if there is a good funnel leading to a bedding area from there.

 

[Bukmastr]

Hunt acorns and water sources very close to known big buck bedding areas. Glass and shine the fields prior to season and locate the farms with the best bucks, or if you just hunt one farm, the area where they are bedding. Move in and kill em. Hang the stand the day you are going to kill him, and don't walk around near where your going to hunt prior to the day your going to kill him. I have taken many nice bucks early season, and I preffer early season over the rut. If you do your home work, early season rocks..