Sept Bucks

Deerhead

Senior Member
Plenty of bucks are taken in September. I can find the does but not the bucks. So how do you do it? Where do you find the bucks in September?
 

kevincox

Senior Member
Find a loaded persimmon tree in a thick area or a remote food plot or acorn tree. I have to pass a lot of does and small bucks but usually if I hold out a mature buck will eventually show up.
 

PChunter

Senior Member
Good luck, I have never saw a good one in the early season. Always into Oct.
 

GeauxLSU

Senior Member
Well, the only things we know for a fact, they don't disappear, they still have to eat, and they are not as interested in breeding. So yes, hunt food sources or if they are still nocturnal, try to find a good staging area and be patient. The good thing about it is, if you don't him early, you know he's probably still lurking later in the season (rut) when he may not have quite as many smarts. ;)
 

308 WIN

Senior Member
The most prefered food source your land has at that time, in the last half hour of legal shooting light. If your going to see him in Sept. thats where it will be. But get in there plenty early, once you bump him, game over in that spot. The very first day is your best chance in any new spot, expect it to happen!
 
try to find some fruit trees on the edge or in some thick stuff. i am hunting over some crab apple trees in a pine thicket. a water source close by helps a little too.
 

Dixiesimpleman32

GONetwork Member
Best chance 30 minutes before dark hunting over food,muscidines,persimmons,acorns if you can find um.I hunt over food plots in sept you got to let the small ones walk and wait for the short haired trophy to come out.good luck hope yall pile a good one up.
 

gabowman

Senior Member
If you know from earlier scouting trips that your woods contains a decent buck then start hunting him along edges of fields, near road crossings, anywhere there seems to be decent deer activity without you trapzing down thru all the woods spreading your scent around. During this early part of the season the buck has all his senses and he'll quickly know you're there if you spread your scent in all the rooms of his house. Hopefully you've done your homework way before now and already know the general areas the deer are actively using. Mature bucks like to "see" what's going on in their area without having to move out into wide open areas to see it all. This means ridge tops along thick planted pines, edges of thickets, back in the edges of thick swampy areas, etc. Mature deer are patient. They'll stand back and wait for younger, less experienced deer to move out in towards that hot persimmon tree or white oak acorn tree making sure the coast is clear without ever letting you know theyre around. Dont make the mistake of climbing that "hotspot" tree out in the middle of the wide open area where all the deer are coming to just to get busted by a momma doe with little 'uns and never getting the opportunity of getting a glimpse of the buck of a lifetime when he might already be standing there making sure the coast is clear. Remember, big deer dont get big by doing what's predictable. Look for the smallest signs that might show you where to get that shot on him from his observation points along his travel routes.
 

ultramag

Senior Member
If you know from earlier scouting trips that your woods contains a decent buck then start hunting him along edges of fields, near road crossings, anywhere there seems to be decent deer activity without you trapzing down thru all the woods spreading your scent around. During this early part of the season the buck has all his senses and he'll quickly know you're there if you spread your scent in all the rooms of his house. Hopefully you've done your homework way before now and already know the general areas the deer are actively using. Mature bucks like to "see" what's going on in their area without having to move out into wide open areas to see it all. This means ridge tops along thick planted pines, edges of thickets, back in the edges of thick swampy areas, etc. Mature deer are patient. They'll stand back and wait for younger, less experienced deer to move out in towards that hot persimmon tree or white oak acorn tree making sure the coast is clear without ever letting you know theyre around. Dont make the mistake of climbing that "hotspot" tree out in the middle of the wide open area where all the deer are coming to just to get busted by a momma doe with little 'uns and never getting the opportunity of getting a glimpse of the buck of a lifetime when he might already be standing there making sure the coast is clear. Remember, big deer dont get big by doing what's predictable. Look for the smallest signs that might show you where to get that shot on him from his observation points along his travel routes.

Awsome advice right there!!!That is how it happens right there:cool:
 
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