After spending hours hunting for whitetail, you deserve to enjoy high-quality venison with your friends and family. Unfortunately, some hunters routinely make errors, both during and after the hunt, that result in bad tasting venison. Luckily for you, we’ve got advice for every step of the process. While on the hunt, take accurate shots to prevent stomach content and entrails from spoiling meat. Remember: when field-dressing the deer, meat must cool quickly or internal bleeding and bacteria will give venison a foul taste. Want to avoid other meat-ruining mistakes? We’ve got five additional tips to ensure you get great tasting venison. For the full story, visit SummitStands.com.
Increase your shot opportunities by bringing the big bucks to your property. Maintaining your food plot during the winter encourages deer to stay in your yard year-round. Grow a variety of plants that thrive during cold months, and setup feeding stations away from plots to prevent deer from overgrazing. Monitor plots with game cameras to track deer activity, and use feed-release timers to keep raccoons and turkeys from stealing food. For more advice on maintaining your winter food plot, read the full story at MoultrieFeeders.com.
Don’t limit your deer hunting strategies to the regular season. Plan for year-round success by making your property an oasis for hard-to-find bucks. During the hot summer months, thirsty deer seek water and will keep returning to your property, if you provide it for them. Leave overgrown shrubbery alone—it’s the perfect sanctuary for deer during periods of hunting pressure. Plant a variety of greens and hang stands in multiple locations, and you’ll soon tag trophy-worthy bucks that make your buddies envious. For more hunting secrets, read the full story at SummitStands.com.
Want to tag more trophy-worthy deer? Start your hunt during the early season with strategies from expert hunters. Strategy #1: Focus on food and water sources—the sweltering 90-degree weather draws deer to ponds with nearby bean fields. Strategy #2: Locate bucks’ trails, and set up stands to intercept them on their way to feeding areas. Strategy #3: Hunt near trails leading out of thickly covered woods—deer seek sanctuary in these locations. For more early season hunting strategies, read the full story at MoultrieFeeders.com.
