Got any early season tips?

[txsbuda]

Hey Bow Hunters, got a question. Going on my first bow hunt ever in a few weeks in East Texas. Been rifle hunting my area for over 5 years. Took a nice 13 pt. buck on opening day. Now I'm ready to experience something different. I've been practicing every month during the offseason and daily over the last few weeks, I'm sighted in, got my ground blind, scent elimination stuff and I'm ready. Obviously it will be the early season, so what can I do to give myself the best opportunity to harvest deer, other then be sure to hunt where the signs are? Is it basically a sit and wait game? Will calling or grunting work this early? A guy who I got checking the place weekly said that he walked up on a nice buck making scrapes. He carefully got out of the area. Any suggestions would help. Thanks!

[hatetomiss]

you can always try to rattle a little bit

[Brad6639]

My best advice is just set up where you can intercept them either heading to the food (evening), or leaving the food heading to the bedding area (morning). Maybe sit back the first night with a spotting scope and try and scope out where they enter or exit the woods and then set up maybe 100-150 yards from the edge of a field(assuming you hunt near fields which Im sure you probably have at least one). The bigger animals tend to come out towards the end of shooting light, so if your inside the woodline a little deeper, you can hopefully get a crack at one with shooting light remaining. Good luck, its really fun but sort fo frustrating too.

[woodsman2230]

What I do in Pa is I hunt in between bedding areas and food. The deer are more worried about eating than anything at this point in time. If you do your homework and know where the deer are coming from and where they are going to, you are set. At least thats what its like in Pa. I have never hunted texas. Best of luck to you. I hope you nail a monster!